Rev. Dr. Aaron P. Janklow

Senior Pastor & Head of Staff

*Starts May 1

Rev. Beverly Bartlett

Pastor for Care & Congregational Life

Office: 212-288-8920 x8481
Email: bab@mapc.com

Beverly joined the pastoral staff at MAPC as Associate Pastor for Congregational Life in September 2002. There have been a lot of changes at MAPC in almost 20 years! What keeps her here is that it remains a warm community that cares deeply for one another, worships God with a rich liturgy and glorious music, values education, serving our neighbors, and growing both in our faith and our understanding of the role we play in society as people of faith.

After getting her M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary she spent five and half years serving a small rural parish in northeastern Vermont. Then she answered another call, acting, and after a year on staff with the Iona Community on the Isle of Iona in Scotland, she moved to NYC to study acting and pursue theater. Her day job during her acting years was working for the United Methodist Committee on Relief, where she learned more than she ever thought she would about hurricanes, tornados, relief, and recovery. She tries not to inflict being an extreme weather nerd on others.  Sometimes she succeeds.

Beverly brings a diversity of life experience to ministry—parish ministry, acting, international travel agent, nanny, cook and musician on Iona, accompanist for ballet classes, choral singing in groups of all sizes, waiting tables (could only take a month of that), communications work with the United Methodists, even working in a Greyhound bus plant in college. 

In 2016 she earned a Certificate in Spiritual Direction from General Theological Seminary. She loves leading groups in reflecting on scripture and paying attention to how the Holy Spirit is at work in their lives.

Her role at MAPC has changed, or enlarged, over the years.  She is the point person for pastoral care, staffs the Board of Deacons and the Congregational Nurture Committee, became the staff person for Adult Education a couple of years ago, and does whatever else comes her way.

Beverly grew up in Maine and New Mexico and has deep family roots in the mountains of North Georgia. She feels equally at home on the coast of Maine, the family farm in the southern mountains, and the NYC apartment she shares with daughter Emily, dog Buttercup, and cats Caramel and Mercury.

Outside of work she loves to travel, kayak, walk, sing, read mysteries, knit, do jigsaw puzzles, go to the theater and concerts, and sit on a porch looking out over the farm or the ocean.  She recently walked 1,000 miles on a pilgrimage across France and Spain during her sabbatical in 2022. Someday, she wants to learn to surf.

Dr. Andrew Henderson

Director of Music & Organist

Office: 212-288-8920 x8489
Email: aeh@mapc.com

Andrew Henderson has served as Director of Music & Organist at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church since 2005, where he oversees an extensive liturgical and choral program including the Saint Andrew Chorale, the New York City Children’s Chorus, as well as the Saint Andrew Music Society’s Music on Madison concert series. He is also the chair of the organ department at the Manhattan School of Music, the organ instructor at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, and Associate Organist at New York City’s Temple Emanu-El. Dr. Henderson, a native of Thorold, Ontario, holds degrees in music from Clare College, Cambridge and Yale Universities, and in 2007 he was awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at The Juilliard School. He was a finalist in the international competition Grand Prix de Chartres in France in 2002 and won first prize in the Royal Canadian College of Organists’ biennial National Organ Playing Competition the following year. Recent performances include organ and continuo playing with the New York Philharmonic, Musica Sacra, Voices of Ascension, and The Oratorio Society of New York, and solo recitals in Poland, Canada, and throughout the USA. His performances have been featured on the radio programs Pipedreams and With Heart and Voice. He has been featured as a recitalist and workshop leader at national and regional gatherings of the Presbyterian Association of Musicians, the Fellowship of United Methodists in Worship and Music Arts, the Royal Canadian College of Organists, and the American Guild of Organists. Andrew’s teachers have included John Tuttle, Barrie Cabena, David Sanger, Thomas Murray, and John Weaver, whom Andrew succeeded following 35 beloved years of music ministry. Andrew cherishes serving MAPC through its long-treasured liturgical and musical traditions, and for the many opportunities for music to nurture our congregation and the surrounding community.

Mary Huff

Associate Director of Music

Office: 212-288-8920 x8492
Email: mwh@mapc.com

Mary Wannamaker Huff is Associate Director of Music and Artistic Director of the New York City Children’s Chorus at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. As a conductor, pedagogue, and organist, she has extensive experience working with musicians of all ages: professional and volunteer, children and adults, chamber ensembles and large choruses alike.  

In addition to singing in their home here at MAPC, her choirs have appeared on major television networks including appearances on SNL, Good Morning America, TODAY, and Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. She has prepared or conducted children's choirs for orchestral performances on the major stages of NYC, nationally and internationally, and for our NYC neighbors in retirement homes, nursing and rehabilitation centers, and homeless shelters.  

Her recordings on MSR Classics, Christmas in New York, Simple Gifts: A Collection of American and British Arts Songs (both on the Grammy ballot), and ANGEL: Sacred Anthems for Treble Voices, are available digitally on Amazon Music, iTunes, Spotify, and YouTube. Guest conducting, teaching, and religious conference leadership have taken her throughout the United States. 

Joining the staff in 2006, she is involved in every aspect of the music ministry at MAPC. Born in Greenville, SC, Mary graduated cum laude from Furman University (B.Mus.) and Yale University (M.Mus.) and continued post-graduate studies in music education at Westminster Choir College focusing on the training of children’s choirs. 

MAPC’s long tradition of excellence in liturgy and music is what brought her here, but the intellect, humor, and deep love of God and commitment to being God’s witness in the world of this congregation is what has kept her busy building up God’s kingdom on the corner of Madison and 73rd Street well into her second decade of ministry here. 

Laura Graham

Director of MAPC Day School

Office: 212-288-8920 x8469
Email: lg@mapc.com

Rev. Chesna Hinkley

Pastoral Resident for Christian Education & Outreach

Office: 212-288-8920
Email: ceh@mapc.com

Chesna has been around Madison Avenue in various capacities since 2018. In her role as Pastoral Resident, she focuses on children’s ministry and community outreach and mission.

Chesna was born in wild and beautiful Michigan and tries to make it to a Big Lakes beach and a Grand Rapids brewery every summer. Chesna studied neuroscience, anthropology, and French at the University of Pittsburgh and received her Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary. In seminary, she focused on the Pauline epistles and Reformed systematics, and she is interested in theological epistemology, biblical gender equality, and the election of Christ in Karl Barth. 

Chesna loves MAPC and is glad to work on such an extraordinary team. She is thrilled to be here during a time of transition and hope.

Chesna is an avid traveler (18 countries so far!), and loves books, coffee, and talking with friends over good food. She lives with her cat, Regan, on the Upper East Side.

Rev. Jon Rodriguez

Pastoral Resident

Office: 212-288-8920 x8480
Email: jdr@mapc.com

Jon joined Madison Avenue as Pastoral Resident in 2021. His areas of focus are communications, evangelism, youth, and young adults. 

Jon was born in Florida but calls Texas home. Though he loves New York City, he misses the smell of BBQ and sound of central air-conditioning. Before joining the MAPC staff, Jon received a bachelor’s degree in Public Relations & Mass Communication from Texas State University (go Bobcats) and a Masters of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary. His seminary studies focused on the topics of race and ethnicity in the New Testament, the role of lament in Reformed theology, and apocalyptic thought in Paul’s letters.  

In his free time, Jon serves on the board of Lutheran Ministries in Higher Education - an ecumenical student ministry on the college campuses of New York City - as its secretary. He is passionate about the future of the church and the young leaders who will guide it.

Jon lives with his wife, Alyson, and their dog, Sam, on the Upper East Side.