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.