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Laurie Hays Coffman
Senior Pastor
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Texas-born and formed, has been pastor of Calvary United Methodist Church in Durham, NC for eleven years. She teaches in the Duke Divinity School Course of Study, mentors students, and advocates for full inclusion of LGBT persons in the UMC. Theologically and spiritually shaped by the coming out stories of gay Christians, Laurie collaborated with colleagues in the Wm. C. Friday Fellowship for Human Relations to produce Coming Out Coming In. Laurie was one of eight UMC pastors that participated in the 2003 National Clergy Renewal Program, funded by the Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment. | |
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Gayle C. Felton, Ph.D.
Minister for Christian Formation
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Dr. Felton, a native North Carolinian, serves as an elder in the N.C. Conference of the UMC and a consultant for the General Board of Discipleship of the UMC. She is a former faculty member of Meredith College and Duke Divinity School and is adjunct faculty at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. Her ministry is well known through her writing including Abingdon Press books--How United Methodists Study Scripture, This Gift of Water and Jesus Collection-The Coming of Jesus and By Water and the Spirit. Additionally, she is a principal writer for the UM official documents on Baptism and Holy Communion. | |
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Zoila Airall, Ph.D.
Organist
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Calvary is blessed to have the musical gifts of Zoila Airall. In her life outside the church, Dr. Airall, a native of New Jersey, is Duke Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs. She provides leadership and administrative oversight of student organizations and events, multi-cultural programming, support services for international students, community service and student leadership programs. | |
Al Daniels
Maintenance Staff
Al Daniels has been the maintenance staff person for Calvary five years. He is a Methodist, has a maintenance business and has been a Durham School bus driver for Exceptional Children for 15 years.
Philip Shoe
Secretary
Philip is a former intern at Calvary. He is currently at student at Duke Divinity School, leader of the LGBT Support Group that meets on Thursdays, and leads Sacred Worth, a graduate student group at Duke University which promotes the understanding of homosexuality in the church through various opportunities for discussion and dialogue.
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Pam Watkins
Former Associate Pastor
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After almost 30 years as a biologist studying cancer, Pam Watkins heard Gods call and began her study for the ministry. She returned to her alma mater, Duke University and receive her Master of Divinity degree in May 2005. She was appointed Associate Pastor in Spring 2004 and had served as Ministerial Intern at Calvary UMC and as a Chaplain Intern at Duke Medical Center. In July 2005 she began as a Resident Chaplain at U.N.C. Medical Center. | |