Introducing our Interim Pastor, Jody guerrera

Jody grew up, attended school and grew to love the beach in Stratford, Connecticut. Her father owned a pharmacy in town where she spent many hours helping out. She enjoyed both math and the sciences which led her to study medical laboratory science in college. She earned both a BS and an MS in the field and worked as a medical technologist for twenty years.

Jody met her husband Bill (pictured) as a freshman at Fairfield University. They married and moved to Thomaston, Connecticut in 1979. They have three grown, married children and four grandchildren.

 Over the years, Jody taught a number of Bible studies at her church. In the mid-1990’s, Jody felt the call to ministry. Her pastor, the Rev. Dr. Peter Smith, and the congregation of the Thomaston Congregational Church, were incredibly supportive, both spiritually and financially. Jody graduated from Yale Divinity School in 2002 and was called to serve the Sharon Congregational Church, first to fill the pulpit and then as associate pastor in 2004. She retired in September, 2017. We are very grateful to Jody and Bill for their willingness to serve at the church again during the current pastoral vacancy.

 Jody’s hobby is quilting. She has been making quilts for 40 years, and teaches quilting when time permits. She speaks to quilt guilds and church groups while sharing her faith through her work.

OUR Former PASTOr, Robert keay

Pastor Keay grew up in Plymouth, MA and enjoyed running, swimming, skating, and chess in his youth. He still tries to enjoy most of these activities, but in a slower, more easy-going, less competitive fashion. After earning a Masters degree in Theology from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Bob moved to St Andrews, Scotland for a doctorate in New Testament studies. While in St Andrews Bob met Jill, a graduate of the University who was working in the School of English, and they married in 2002. Jill is from Bangor, Northern Ireland, and has worked as a teacher and administrator in the UK, France, and Japan. Bob taught briefly at the University of St Andrews before taking a lectureship in Northern Ireland at Belfast Bible College and Queen’s University Belfast in 2005. While teaching he served in various local churches in Ireland. In 2012 he returned to the USA and served in pastorates in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. In September 2017 Bob and Jill came to Sharon Congregational Church. Their final Sunday was 2nd July 2023.

Bob can be contacted by email at rkeayjr@gmail.com.