Our Staff Reverend Nancy Ebner, pastor; June Foster, music director, Virginia Ventulett, accompanist; Toni Wapner, office manager; Andrew Johnson, custodian, and Summer Intern 2010, Jen McDonald. Reverend Nancy Ebner, pastor Reverend Nancy Ebner, pastor It is my joy and privilege to serve as pastor of Orchard Covenant Church since 2004, when God (and the congregation!) called me to Indian Orchard. I'd love to meet you and I invite you to visit us. God is at work in our midst! As a child of a career military dad, I grew up in several different church settings around the country and on a military base in Germany. I trusted Jesus as a young child and as a teen I sensed God's call to ministry. For many years I served the church in volunteer leadership. Then I followed God's call into full-time pastoral ministry by attending seminary and fulfilling the requirements for ordination in the Evangelical Covenant Church. www.covchurch.org I live with my loving and supportive husband Wally, my life and ministry partner since our college days as leaders with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. We married in 1976 and we have four adult children, two sons-in-law and one daughter-in-law, and one grandson. A great joy of our lives is to gather with all our family for time together. Jen McDonald, Summer Intern 2010 Pastor Jen McDonald, Summer Intern I'm honored to make Orchard Covenant Church my church community for this summer. As I'm interested in neighborhood pastoral ministry, this placement definitely feels like a God-orchestrated connection. I'm thankful for this opportunity to spread my pastoral wings here and to learn from a church that is active in the community. I'm a second-generation Guatemalan-American, hailing from the home of the 2010 Stanley Cup Champions--Chicago, Illinois. My loving mother and father raised my two sisters and me in various neighborhoods in the city. I received a Bachelors of Science in Nursing from Bethel College in Indiana. After working as a nurse for three years, I sensed a call into pastoral ministry. Thus, I began my seminary journey at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago two years ago, which makes this upcoming year my final year of seminary. I've enjoyed this seminary season immensely, but as I'm near the end of it, I'm looking forward to seeing how God continues to orchestrate my next steps into pastoral ministry. Back in Chicago, I live in a neighborhood not too far from North Park called Andersonville. I enjoy spending time with my family and friends, especially over a good meal.