Rev. Douglas Moore, Pastor

Doug Moore was born in Evanston, Illinois and went to the local public schools there through high school. He attended Yale University and graduated in 1966. Not knowing what else to do other than be a student, he enrolled in the Vanderbilt Law School in Nashville, Tennessee. While in Nashville he met Judith Howe Simpson. Judy was attending the George Peabody Teachers College (now a part of Vanderbilt). They were married in January, 1968. After a two day honeymoon Judy went to work teaching and Doug went back to classes at the Law School. Upon graduation from Law School in June, 1969, he went on active duty with the USMC in October, 1969. He served in Iwakuni, Japan, and Norfolk, Virginia. In 1972 Judy and he moved to Evanston, Illinois and he began work as very junior associate in a large law firm. A few years later he moved to a smaller firm which specialized in civil trial work. In 1982, Judy and he and their two children relocated to Norwich, Vermont. He practiced law in Norwich for the next eight years. During these eight years he became more interested in the church, the Moores adopted three children from Korea, he went on a peace mission to Nicaragua, and decided to attend seminary. His family of seven moved to Walkerburn, Scotland, in 1990, and he attended the University of Edinburgh New College Divinity School. In 1992 he became the Licensed Minister of the Sharon (Vermont) Congregational Church, U.C.C. In June 1993, he completed his Clinical Pastoral Education program at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and was awarded his degree from Edinburgh. He was ordained in October, 1993. In December, 2001, after nine wonderful years in Sharon, he returned "home" to begin his ministry in Norwich.

Rev. Mary R. Brownlow Huessy, Associate Pastor

Mary R. Brownlow has been the Associate Pastor since she was ordained in this church in May 1998. She got her first graduate degree in Theater Arts and worked as a costume designer in New York City before becoming a full time mother. She received a Master of Divinity from Andover Newton Theological School in 1997. Chaplaincy is also part of her ministerial career: she has worked as an assistant chaplain at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and is currently the chaplain of the local Hospice organization. She has three children: Johannes, Will, and Elizabeth.