Jan grew up in Derby, Kansas, attended Southwestern College in Winfield, KS, and is currently working on her PhD.  She attended Saint Paul’s School of Theology, graduating in 1999, and is an ordained elder.  She was a Youth Minister at Lawrence First UMC for five years.  She served as Associate Pastor in Lenexa for two years.  The five years prior to coming to PHUMC she served as Associate Pastor for Manhattan First UMC.
 

Jan and her husband Mitch are both musically gifted.  Both write music and sing.  They have recorded two CDs.  

 

 

Mitch is the pastor at University United Methodist Church.  The two churches work together on Holy Week mid-week services, confirmation classes, and mission trips.