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Our Staff
Pastor: Bill Green
Christian Education Director: Jan Eadie
Secretary/Bookkeeper: Marian Needham
Celebration Service Music Director: Stephanie Clark
Accompanist: Donna Grubbs
Traditional Service Music Director: Audrey Wiley
Bell Choir Director: Sue Ninemires
Organist: Pauline Olsen
Custodian: Maurice (Moe) Frazell
BILL GREEN is pastor of Trinity United Methodist Church, Sequim, Washington.
Bill was born into a parsonage, as his father was a United Methodist pastor, and spent most of his growing up years in Washington moving from place to place as his father served different churches.
After graduating from Central Washington University with a degree in Business Administration Bill was married to Jenny and together they went off to seminary, first at Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, GA and later at Iliff School of Theology where he graduated with a Masters of Divinity. Bill was ordained in the Pacific Northwest Annual Conference in 1978 and has served churches in Bonners Ferry, ID, Montesano, WA, Connell, WA, Moscow, ID, and Bellingham, WA before coming to Trinity.
Bill and Jenny have three children, Sam and his wife Kayli who live in Columbia, MD, Melly and her daughter Sophi, who live in Sequim, and Tori who lives in Bellingham.
Bill and Jenny enjoy music, both playing handbells and singing, gardening, enjoying the great outdoors and playing with Sophi.
Bill is excited to be the pastor at Trinity and encourages you to contact him if you have any questions.
JAN EADIE is the Education Coordinator at Trinity United Methodist Church. She attended Cedarville College in Ohio and the University of Washington in Seattle. She has 25 years of active church involvement including Christian Education staff and volunteer positions. Came to us from St. Paul United Church of Christ, Seattle, Washington.
MARIAN NEEDHAM is the church secretary and bookkeeper. She brings to her position a diverse background including a degree in graphic arts, followed by years in that occupation, vocational teaching, and several years in various office management positions. Marian also is the administrative assistant at the local free health clinic.
She has lived in Sequim since 1994. Marian, a Washington native, enjoys the outdoors, hiking, gardening and considers herself blessed to be living in such a beautiful part of this state. She has a son who is currently serving in the Air Force.
Marian is pleased to have the opportunity to greet visitors to TUMC weekdays, welcomes the challenges that go with being a church secretary, and acknowledges that her job could not be done without the help of wonderful volunteers.
MAURICE FRAZELL (Moe) is the custodian at Trinity United Methodist Church. He was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming and lived in Great Falls, Montana, before moving to Sequim. Moe considers Sequim the best place he’s lived and loves his work at Trinity. He enjoys the people here and especially looks forward to the Tuesday morning Men’s Bible Study and Breakfast. As he says, “What a great way to start the day!”
AUDREY WILEY is the Choir Director and Music Director for our traditional worship service. Raised on farms and ranches in North Dakota and Minnesota, Audrey attended mainly one-room schools in her early years. She was graduated from Dickinson State University in North Dakota and earned her master’s degree at Black Hills State University in South Dakota. She went on to a 42-year teaching career, involved in music from kindergarten to the college level.
Having retired, Audrey moved here last October from Glendive, Montana. Her husband, Ron, also a music teacher, had died in 2003. At Glendive United Methodist Church, Audrey directed the junior choir for many years and eventually became organist and director of the adult choir. She and Ron produced, directed and performed in many musical shows in Glendive.
Audrey has two children and two grandchildren. She enjoys hunting, fishing, reading, sewing, knitting and baking. She is engaged to Kenneth Rust.
DONNA GRUBBS is the Accompanist. Growing up in Missouri, Donna remembers always being surrounded by music of one kind or another. Her earliest memory of enjoying music began as she listened to her father, grandfather and uncle play the piano, fiddle, and guitar in a one-room school house while neighbors square danced.
Donna has served in music ministry in Missouri, Panama and Okinawa where she served as organist, pianist, and director of children and adult choirs. Before arriving in Sequim, she participated in over 40 years of Christian music, mostly with the Baptist church, Overseas Union churches, and military base chapels.
Donna graduated from the University of Alabama with a major in Home Economics and a minor in music. She taught for the Department of Defense Dependent Schools for 20 years in Panama and Okinawa that included teaching Home Economics in the middle and high schools and music in the elementary and middle schools.
Throughout her years overseas, Donna was active in community theatre, working on numerous productions each year as pianist or musical director. After moving to Diamond Point and continuing their interest in having fun with music, she and husband, Randy, direct the Diokipan Singers that entertain during the Christmas season. Other hobbies include quilting, sewing for grandchildren, and exploring new places.
Working in contemporary praise and worship music is new for Donna, but she enjoys and is inspired to be part of a spirit-led service.
SUE NINEMIRES is our Bell Choir Director. She has played hand bells in Iowa, Illinois and Sequim. Sue has directed children, high school and adult vocal choirs and was a youth director at Methodist churches in Pontiac, Illinois, and Farmington, Missouri. She has a degree in elementary education from Simpson college, Indianola, Iowa and has taught elementary and special education in Illinois.
Sue has played percussion in municipal bands in Iowa, Illinois and Sequim. She is the vocal soloist for Sequim City Band; plays piano for the monthly birthday celebration at O.C.R.C.; and has sung in the Port Angeles Community Chorus, church choirs, Sequim Community Chorus and summer theater.
Sue has lived in Sequim 17 years and has three sons, 8 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren
PAULINE OLSEN is our organist for the traditional worship service at 11 a.m.
The recent death of her husband, Walter, an Irish tenor, has given Pauline an opportunity to join the talented musicians at TUMC.
Pauline met Walter while stationed at Travis AFB. She answered an ad for additional singers to join the Presbyterian choir to perform an Easter Cantata. Walt was the tenor soloist. She became his wife and accompanist, in short order. They would have been married 40 years, July 4, 2011.
Pauline grew up in a parsonage and played church organs throughout her teens. She studied Pipe organ in college and continues to play organ and piano whenever the opportunity arises. Her mother was a soprano soloist and choir director who co-founded the Lutheran Choral Association in Portland, Oregon. This group combines talents of vocalists from a variety of churches who love to sing. They practice in the Summer and perform two concerts, Fall and Christmas.
Sequim has been Pauline’s and Walt’s home for over 17 years. Prior to that, they lived in Port Angeles while Pauline taught nursing at Peninsula College. The last three years, she has cared for both Walt and her sister, Lois. Now she is able to share her love of music with others. She considers it a challenge and a privilege.
Stephanie Clark is the Celebration Service Musical Director.
