Lindsay Popper

Denomination: United Church of Christ (UCC)
Organization: Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, NY

Biographical facts about Lindsay Popper

• Currently serving Allin Congregational Church (UCC) in Dedham, MA, as their Minister of Christian Education (responsible for educational programming for people from infants to elders).
• On the path towards ordination in the UCC (after having served an American Baptist Church, and being deeply involved in Quaker, Anglican, Presbyterian, Evangelical, and other churches)
• worked for 6 summers at a non-denominational conservative evangelical Christian girls' camp in Maine.
• went to college at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina-it's in the mountains with a working farm on it (lots of cows and chickens) surrounded by forests. Everyone works for 15 hours a week running the campus-I spent a year there as a plumber.
• I worked for two years for an urban gardening business in Tallahassee, FL after college-planting small food gardens in people's yards, and supporting local community gardens. I am passionate about local agriculture and about growing food.
• I have volunteered at nursing homes with my mother since I was in kindergarten, and was trained as a hospice volunteer after college.
• I am a published poet, and my spoken-word background comes out sometimes in my sermons and in my liturgy writing