By Liam M.
Saying good-bye to Methodist service leader Pastor Andy was not easy for Family Foundation School students, but the transition was made a lot easier when they met his replacement, Roxy Moses.
Moses understands the concept of family being much more than just a mother and father and their kids, since she has always regarded her congregation as being her family. She grew up in a church community in Wilmington, Delaware. Moses said she was by no means an angel at home, let alone a star student, but her care for others carried her through to nursing school. Her passion for helping even brought her to Thailand where she cared for wounded soldiers, fresh from the battlefield.
There was a point in her life where she could feel God calling her to something greater. Her initial response was not just no, but “hell no.” The pull was strong, however, and so she made a bargain with God, that if the three men she trusted most in her life agreed that she should become a pastor, then she would do it. The men she chose were her husband, her pastor, and her parent’s pastor, and surprisingly to her, they all agreed that she should.
In 1987 she joined the Seminary in Bangor, Maine. There she not only established a rock-solid connection with God, but also gained a passion for snow-mobiling. She joined a club that would cruise along abandoned railroad tracks in the woods for miles, which helped her feel centered and at one with the universe during this dramatic change in her life.
She also took up hiking, and began to realize that if she walked for long enough, she would find the answer to whatever problem she was having inside herself.
Although not a victim of addiction, Moses understands that nobody’s life resembles a fairy tale. “The glass slipper always either breaks or you will grow out of it,” she said. More importantly however, she believes that just because you’re not in chorus, doesn’t mean that you don’t have a song, and that you must dream for something to stand a chance at becoming it.
Roxy will be available to speak to students all day on Mondays, and will be making herself available whenever else she is able. She expects that she will learn as much from the students as she will try and teach them, altogether trying to show at least one student that they too have the answers to their problems inside themselves.
