The Rev. Lorraine Dill is normally available from 9:00 A.M. until 1:00 P.M. Monday through Thursday in the church office.
At other times call the numbers below.
Please come to the church or call 742-3217.
Rev. Dill can be reached at home (417.742.2195) or on her cell phone (417.379.0293) anytime she is not in the church office.
mldill53@aol.com
About Reverend Dill
After graduation from high school in Wilmington, Delaware, I studied religion for my Bachelor of Arts degree from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. I then received a Fulbright Fellowship to explore iconography in Transylvania, Romania that proved to be an eye-opening and life-transforming experience. Upon my return from Romania, I began seminary studies which included training in clinical pastoral education as a student chaplain at Delaware State Hospital and two years of field work in a small church in south Philadelphia where I ministered to Southeast Asian refugee families. My Master of Divinity came from Princeton Seminary.
I was ordained in 1984, just after reunion of our two predecessor denominations. My first call was to be associate pastor of Christian education and youth at First Presbyterian in Oneonta, New York. After five years there, I moved 100 miles east to be pastor of First United Church, Presbyterian of Hoosick Falls, New York, a small town just outside Bennington, Vermont. The next step in the journey, after six years in Hoosick Falls, was to Dundee Church in Omaha, Nebraska, to serve for five years as associate pastor for pastoral care and missions. My time in Omaha included a mission trip to Haiti, implementation of a parish nurse program, a term on presbytery’s Committee on Ministry and membership on the Board of Advisors of the Omaha Presbyterian Seminary Foundation.
My family is a source of great joy for me: my twin daughters, Christiana Joy (Annie) and Caroline Grace (Carrie), born in December 1999, and my husband Richard. In order to have family support during the twins’ early years, we moved to Florida in October 2000, where I have served at Trinity Church the Sea on Fort Myers Beach as associate pastor.
In my limited spare time I enjoy reading, travel, music and art, but feel most at home in my roles as pastor and mother. I seek only to serve God and his people with faithfulness, enthusiasm, creativity and love.
Currently Pastor Dill is working on her Doctor of Ministry through University of Dubuque Theological Seminary.
Sam Farmer chats with Reverend Dill during her interview visit in 2005.
