About Megan

Here is a little bit about me, up to this point: I am a runner; writer; world traveler; photographer; lover of music, coffee, good food, dark beer, nature, and God.

I attended Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana as an undergraduate and received my BA in German in 2003. As a junior (2001-2002), I studied at Eberhard Karls Universität in Tübingen, Germany (The university that once housed Reformer and friend to Martin Luther, Philip Melanchton).

During that year of study in Tübingen, I wrestled with the call to ministry, eventually saying yes to a life of service. My diaconal (servant) identity was then formed through the Lutheran Deaconess Association, and I was consecrated into the diaconate in 2006.

In 2008 I earned my MA in Transforming Spirituality from the School of Theology and Ministry at Seattle University. Through the degree I also received training as a spiritual director.

After I moved to Seattle in September 2004, I found myself in a small community of followers in the way of Christ called Church of the Apostles (COTA). COTA is jointly supported by the ELCA and Epsicopal Church, though fully neither. We use the ancient liturgy and are creative and expressive with it. We seek to explore new ways of being church and living mission in today’s cultural context and among today’s generations.

Although I still affiliate with my Lutheran roots, I see my faith ever deepened with my walk between the Lutheran and Episcopal traditions, embracing both and much beyond. You could say I have an ever emerging faith, with a Lutheran/Episcopalian lens; or you can simply call me a luthemergopalian.

I am being sent through the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to teach English at the Deaconess School of the Huria Kristen Batak Protestan, a Lutheran church of 4 million members in Indonesia (more details about this to come).