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An Open and Affirming church for all god's people

An Open and Affirming church for all god's peopleAn Open and Affirming church for all god's people

Rev. Leigh McCaffrey, Pastor

Rev. Leigh McCaffrey was born in Burlington, Vermont and was confirmed and ordained in the First Congregational Church of Burlington. Leigh attended St. Michael’s College, graduating magna cum laude in Elementary

Education. After working as a Christian educator at the Groton Congregational Church in Connecticut, she received a call to ministry that led her to Andover Newton Theological School in Boston, Massachusetts, where she graduated cum laude with a specialization in Liberation Theology. She was the 1988 winner of the Koinonia Preaching Prize. Leigh served as student intern and gospel choir member at United Baptist Church of Jamaica Plain.


Pastor Leigh has served churches in New Hampshire, Connecticut, Kansas, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Florida, both as an interim and as a settled pastor. She has also been adjunct faculty at Yale Divinity School in church polity and practical theology. Leigh has served on many Conference committees on Church and Ministry and new church development. She worked as a staff organizer with the Naugatuck Valley Project in Waterbury, Connecticut, and MESA Coordinator (ministerial credentialing and training) with the Florida Conference. She also worked remotely as the clerk of the New York Conference School of Ministry. Most recently, she has been a patient care secretary at VITAS hospice and pastor of First Congregational Church of Lake Helen, Florida.


Leigh and her wife, Susan Monaco, reside in East Barre, rejoicing in being closer to Hannah and Brad Provost and Sara McCaffrey and their children; Aiyanna, Brian and Athena of Plattsburgh, New York, and Sue’s many brothers and sisters.

Our Other Team Members

Director of Music

Church Administrator

Church Administrator

Eric Tuper-Giles

Eric has been the Director of Music since 2009. He grew up in Utah at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. He and his husband, Jeffrey enjoy gardening and cooking and spending time with their boxers, Tyler & Edgar. 

Church Administrator

Church Administrator

Church Administrator

Alexandria Marshall (Aly) is our administrator and bookkeeper. She is transplanting fruitfully from Dallas Texas. She enjoys writing, hiking and singing. 

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