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The Reverend Debra Kissinger

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The Rev. Debra Kissinger is a member of the diocesan staff in the Diocese of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where she has oversight of the diocesan childrens ministries and has been liaison to the Evangelism and Stewardship Committees. Debra is the first and only Child Advocate raised up by a diocese following the adoption of the Childrens Charter for the Church adopted at General Convention 1997. She has appeared before Congress and her state legislature. Ordained in 1992, Debra served in congregational ministries in Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, and Ohio prior to joining the diocesan staff in 2001. She is a graduate of Penn State University with an AS in Business Administration, LaSalle University in Philadelphia with a BA in Sociology, and has a Master of Divinity from the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. An accomplished ice skater, we've assured her there will be plenty of ice for her and her daughter Emma-Li in Maine.

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Education:

M. Div., Berkeley Divinity School, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1992

B.A. Sociology, LaSalle University, Philadelphia, PA, 1988

A.S. Business Administration, Penn State University

Clergy Leadership Project, Trinity, Wall Street: 2006-2007

Peer Coach Training Ordained Womens Leadership Conference: 2006

Appreciative Inquiry Clergy Leadership Institute: 2006

Safeguarding Gods Children Trainers Training Church Pension Fund: 2005

CREDO Church Pension Fund: 2004

Consultation & Facilitation Certificate - Church Development Institute: 1999

Congregational Development Certificate - Church Development Institute: 1995 1997

Family Systems Theory Center for Family Process: 1993

Employment History:

Program Staff, Diocese of Bethlehem, PA (2001 - present)

Moravian Theological Seminary: Adjunct Faculty, Bethlehem, PA (Fall 2006)

Rector, Grace Episcopal Church, Willoughby, Ohio (1997 - 2001)

Vicar, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Oxford, Connecticut (1993 - 1997)

Assistant, Church of St. Barnabas, Irvington, NY (1992 - 1993)

Lay Pastoral Assistant, St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, PA (1986 - 1989)

Service in the Wider Church and in the World:

General Convention Alternate Deputy 2006

National Council Of Churches: ECUSA Representative To The Committee On Public Education And Literacy, 2004 Present

Province IIII Network Coordinator: 2004 - Present

ECCE: Episcopal Council Christian Education, ECUSA, 2003 - Present

AWE: Childrens Ministries - Advocacy, Worship & Education, Diocese of Bethlehem, 2001 - Present

Congregational Development Commission Diocese of Ohio, 1997 - 2001

Mission Enhancement Committee, Diocese of Ohio, 1998 - 2001

Discernment Committee, Diocese of Ohio, 2000

Diocesan Convention Resolutions Committee, Diocese Of Ohio, 1997

Liturgical Commission, Diocese of Connecticut, 1994 - 1996