• Sandy Roberts, Senior Administrator
• Martha Pool, Clerical Assistant
• Deb Silvia, Business Administrator
• Jill Warner, Financial Secretary
   

Sandy Roberts, Senior Administrator

Sandy joined First Church through confirmation as a youth and joined the church staff in 1985 as Membership Secretary.  Later she became the Administrative Secretary and Office Manager.  Sandy was certified as a Professional United Methodist Church Secretary through the organization PAUMCS in Atlanta, GA in December of 1993 by the General Council on Finance and Administration of the United Methodist Church.  She has attended many of their Annual Conferences in several different states.

Martha Pool, Clerical Assistant

As staff secretary since March 1999, Martha prepares the layout of bulletins, announcement sheets, newsletters, UMW yearbooks, circle books and other projects for printing. Recent tasks taken on include recording the worship attendance, updating the PowerPoint announcements each week and maintaining the website.  Martha lives in the country halfway to Bremen with her husband Ed.  They have four children, Mary, Laura, Amy and Nathan.

Martha is an elder and active member of Lancaster First Presbyterian Church and is very active in Presbyterian Women. Along with teaching an adult Sunday School class, singing in the choir and learning to play handbells, she enjoys reading, biking, gardening and sewing/knitting in her spare time.
 

Deb Silvia, Treasurer

Deb has been a member of Shalom UMC in Carroll for fifteen years. During the last ten years, she has served many positions in the church including Secretary/Treasurer, Sunday School Superintendent, Trustee, Vacation Bible School Coordinator, Sunday School teacher, and Vacation Bible School teacher. She has also served on the Finance Committee and Preschool Board at Shalom.

Deb has lived in the Carroll area since 1979 except for a few years that she lived in Columbus when she and her husband, Fred, were first married. They have been married 21 years and have two beautiful daughters--Georgi who is soon heading off to college and Kate who is a student athlete at Bloom-Carroll. Besides staying very active in her daughters' pursuits, which usually means being at some sort of athletic event, Deb enjoys reading, gardening and the great outdoors.

Jill Warner, Financial Secretary

Jill has been a member of First Church since she moved here with her family from Loveland, Ohio in 1993.  After becoming very involved in Children's Ministries, she took the position of Children's Coordinator from 2000 to 2003.  After a year off she came back to the staff as Financial Secretary.

Jill has a degree in Business Administration from Heidelberg College and still keeps herself busy volunteering with children & youth ministries.  She is married to her loving husband , Tim, and has three wonderful children David, Stephanie & Garrett, & one grandchild Paige.