A Message from the Pastor Search Committee
January 26, 2012
The Rev. Alison J. Buttrick Patton
Dear Friends and Members of Saugatuck Congregational Church,
We are delighted to let you know that Saugatuck has a new Pastor! Reverend Alison J. Buttrick Patton was called and unanimously approved by the members who attended the Congregational meeting following the worship service on Sunday, January 22, 2012.
A native New Englander, Alison earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Theatre Arts from Bates College and a Master of Divinity from Chicago Theological Seminary. She joins us from First Church Simsbury in Simsbury, CT. Prior to that, she was Dean of Community Life and Director of Admissions and Recruitment at Chicago Theological Seminary and served at The Peoples Church of Chicago.
Alison has profound gifts of mind, heart and spirit, and ministers from a core of commitment and joy. Energetic in her ministry, she is passionate about missions and social justice. Her family includes two sons, Tobey (age 9) and Ian (age 6) and husband Craig, a fiction writer and full-time parent.
To learn more about Alison and the many gifts she brings to Saugatuck, please click here.
Read Alison's sermon from Candidating Sunday.
We look forward to welcoming Alison as she begins her ministry with Saugatuck on Tuesday, May 1, 2012.
The Pastor Search Committee
Elizabeth Baldwin
Russ Brenneman
Russ Bulkeley
Andrea Cross
Mary Jean Koster
Larry Robinson
Sara Walsh