President

Bio coming soon

Vice President

Brad lives in Manchester with his wife of 46 years, Kathy. They have three grown sons, Rick, James and Tom. Brad is a graduate of University of New Hampshire and Cornell Law School and as New England Synod’s attorney, is a member of the ELCA Lawyers Association. Brad is very involved with civic activities in New Hampshire and the Greater Manchester community and has been given multiple awards for the work he does both as an attorney and community leader.

Brad is head of Sheehan Phinney’s Estate Planning and Probate, Government Relations and Not-for-Profit, Charitable and Religious Institutions Practice Groups. He is a past President of the firm and has practiced with Sheehan Phinney since 1973.

Brad represents many colleges and schools, religious organizations throughout New England, and hospital, nursing home and other charitable and other not-for-profit clients, and practices general corporate law. He writes a regular column, “Cook on Concord,” which appears in the New Hampshire Business Review.

Brad has been a member at Gethsemane for 38 years. This will be his fourth time as a member of the Congregation Council (during the times of Pastors Harter, Pawluk, Hoyer and Boehringer) and second time as its Vice President (during the tenure of Dane Hileman). Brad is looking forward to working with the Council to help Gethsemane through this time of transition.

Treasurer

Judie, a native of New Hampshire, resides in Manchester with her husband Henry; they have three grown children. She earned a mathematics degree from the University of New Hampshire and an MBA from Rivier University. During Judie’s working career she worked in banking and various financial services companies in the systems area.

Currently retired, she enjoys reading, puzzles, quilting and genealogy, and is treasurer of her DAR chapter. She also participates at the church on the Altar Guild, the Mary Martha ladies’ group, the Finance Committee and the Audit Committee.

Raised as a Methodist, Judie joined Gethsemane over 25 years ago with her husband.

“At Gethsemane we have found a warm and welcoming faith family that we are proud to serve and support.”

Bio coming

Carol grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts and attended local schools there. She went to New Jersey and studied at Clara Maass Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, a Lutheran hospital, where she became a registered nurse, and worked in that field for many years. After moving to New Hampshire, she worked for 14 years as a paraprofessional in special education in the junior high.

She was married to Albert Burgess for 41 years before his death. She is the mother of two grown children and the grandmother of four.

Being a lifelong Lutheran, she was baptized, confirmed and married at Zion Lutheran Church in Worcester. “Having been a Lutheran all my life, I know that my church will always be my strength and comfort.”

Sue was raised in Kelliher, Minnesota, just an hour south of the Canadian border. Her post-high school studies were at the University of Minnesota-Morris, where she earned a degree in French. After living in France for two years, Sue moved to New Hampshire where she was an engineering office manager and a Math teacher at Concord High School for 24 years.

Currently retired, she tutors high school math students. Sue lives in Manchester, where she and her husband Peter raised their two children, Neil and Lucia.

Her previous Lutheran congregations were Our Savior’s Lutheran in Kelliher and Den Norske Luterske Mindekirken in Minneapolis. “At Gethsemane, I found a family that I was lacking as a newcomer to New Hampshire. Sitting in the pews of our lovely building on Sunday mornings is a comforting respite from the rest of the week.”

I reside in Manchester with my wife of 35 years Diane, children Kate and Erik, and our goofy yellow lab Odin. Diane and I both graduated from Oswego State in NY where we met. After working and living in a number of places during our first 11 years together (Turkey twice, Bangor ME; Utica, NY); we relocated to New Hampshire and joined Gethsemane in 1996. I work for BAE Systems as a Supplier Development Engineer currently sitting at the Hudson, NH facility.

As many of you already know I serve as an Assisting Minister and also sing in the choir. This is my 2nd time serving on the council, as I previously served from 1999 to 2005. My hobbies include hiking and canoeing, and home improvement projects which seems to be never ending.

I look forward to serving on the council for the congregation in this time of transition.

Bio coming soon!