Staff
Rev. Christina Turner, Pastor
Rev. Christina Turner, Pastor
(she/her/hers)
Pastor Christina is from wild, wonderful West Virginia but fell in love with both North Carolina and United Methodism in divinity school. She holds a Master of Divinity from Duke Divinity School (Go Blue Devils) and a Master of Arts in English/Fiction Writing from the University of California at Davis. She has served a variety of churches in North Carolina to California as pastor or staff member.
Pastor Christina is passionate about helping people of all ages see themselves in the story of God’s radical and inclusive love through Jesus – and in helping create safe and sacred space for all. She loves cultivating joyful spaces where others can find and use their gifts and believes in taking our mission, not ourselves, too seriously. She is honored to walk alongside the Fairmont UMC family, as they seek to follow Jesus, love their neighbors, and seek justice and peace.
Christina loves cooking through cookbooks, listening to podcasts or audiobooks while hiking, driving the Blue Ridge Parkway, finding treasures at thrift stores, and curling up with a cup of coffee and her cat Finn. Her favorite job (other than being a pastor, of course) was delivering pizza along the coast of San Diego County. She is currently at work on a novel about God, grief, and love, set in her native Appalachia.
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Liz Roberts, Director of Raleigh Wesley Foundation
The Reverend Elizabeth Roberts is a graduate of Appalachian State University with a BA degree in Philosophy and Religion. She also earned a Master of Divinity degree in 2002 from the Divinity School at Duke University. She has previously served as Pastors of Fairmont UMC and Windborne UMC and as Associate Pastor at Seaside UMC in Sunset Beach, NC. She is passionate about youth and young adults in regards to the church as well as mission work and travel. Liz is married to Aaron Muscle and together they have two children, Libby and Wesley (and their fur-baby, a labradoodle named Megan).
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