Welcome to Erlanger United Methodist Church!

 Rev. Mark Shepherd, Pastor

Just to help you get to know us a little bit, here is some of our history.  I was born into a parsonage not too far from here on Dixie Highway.  My father was the pastor at (what was then) Immanuel Methodist Church.  I am the last of 4 children.   My oldest sister, Mary John Dye, is a United Methodist pastor also, and is currently the District Superintendent of the Statesville District in the Western North Carolina Conference.  Then comes my sister Ruth Ann Shepherd, who is a neonatal physician by training and worked for many years at the Pikeville Methodist Hospital in eastern Kentucky.  Now she is a Director at the Department for Health Services in Frankfort and is responsible for many health and nuturition programs across the state.  My brother, Phillip Shepherd, is an attorney and is currently a Circuit Judge in Franklin County.  My father, Jim Shepherd, is now retired and lives in Frankfort and pitches in to help at Frankfort First UMC, where I grew up and will always feel like my church home. 

I went to Asbury College and majored in Speech Communications.  After that I went to Atlanta, Georgia to attend Emory University's Candler School of Theology.  I got my Master of Divinity degree there in 1984 and then came back to Kentucky to begin my professional ministry.  My first church was in Campbell County at Southgate UMC.  While I was there, I met and married Sande Turner.  Sande grew up in Campbell County.  She attended Campbell County High School and NKU where she studied business.  After we married, the two kids came along – Susanna, who is going to be a junior at U.K. Studying Equine Science – and Zech, who will be a freshman at EKU this coming fall. 

After my 9 years at Southgate, we moved to Covington Trinity UMC for 3 years, then we moved to Columbia, KY for the next 6 years to serve at Columbia United Methodist Church.  Then in 2002 we moved to Louisville to serve the Jeffersontown UMC where we spent the next 8 years.  Then, of course, in June of 2010, we came here to Erlanger. 

Everywhere we have been God has blessed us and shown us more of his love and grace.  And we look forward to each day of ministry here.  You all have been so wonderful in your welcome.  We can't help but believe God will continue to be faithful and bless all of us as we minister together here again in Northern Kentucky.  Please keep us in your prayers, and let's do great things for God together!

                                                                                                                          See you in church!
                                                                                                                Pastor Mark

Ramona Ridalls - Administrative Assistant

Doris Butler, Director of Music Ministries

Doris has been on staff at EUMC for 15 years.  She is much loved as a public school elementary

music teacher and for her work here at EUMC with the choirs and music program.

Mary Heck, Director - Grace Edgett Child Development Center

Mary has been at Grace Edgett for 18 years.  She has taught pre-school and Kindergarten and was

the Asst. Director for 10 years before accepting the position of Director,

which she has held for the past 3 years.  Mary loves working at Grace Edgett and for Erlanger United Methodist Church.

The Day Care Centers website address is:  www.graceedgett.org

Vena Delk, Asst. Director - Grace Edgett Child Development Center

Betty Duncan, Church Treasurer

Betty has served the church on staff as Treasurer for twenty years.  Betty is a retired school teacher.  

She taught accounting.  Imagine that.  We couldn't function without her around here.