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Pastor<\/div>\n
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Pastor: Rev. Tracy Evans<\/h3>\n

\"11074142_10204170867340849_4890828452889013225_n\"Pastor Evans has been\u00a0ordained to\u00a0the\u00a0ministry of Word and Sacrament since 1997 and our Pastor since February, 2012.\u00a0She is a native Oklahoman, raised in Oklahoma City and Edmond. She is a graduate of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary (M.Div) and University of Central Oklahoma (B.S. in Elem. Ed.).<\/p>\n

After seminary, Tracy was a resident chaplain at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Following the Oklahoma City Murrah Building bombing, she worked as Disaster Response Coordinator for the Presbytery of Indian Nations. She served as Associate Pastor at the Presbyterian Church of Bella Vista, Arkansas and has worked on the staff at Westminster Presbyterian Church\u00a0in Oklahoma City. Most recently, she was the interim pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Duncan, Oklahoma from 2009 through January 2012. She has lived in Arkansas, California, Texas and Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

A life-long Presbyterian, she has served the church in many capacities, including serving on the Advisory Committee to Presbyterian Disaster Assistance for the PC(USA), the Committee on Ministry in Indian Nations Presbytery and Congregational Care and Development in Arkansas. In July 2012, she served as a commissioner to the General Assembly of the PC(USA).<\/p>\n

By her own admission, she watches too much TV. She loves to knit, quilt, craft and bake, and is at home with her chocolate lab Lily and cats Maizie and Lucy Jane. She loves to travel, and loves spending time with her family (who all live in Edmond), especially the four who call her Aunt Tracy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Director of Music Ministry<\/div>\n
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Director of Music Ministry: Vince Leseney<\/h3>\n

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\"vinceVince Leseney has been in church music his entire life, a music minister for 18 years, and choir director at Memorial Presbyterian since 2008. \u00a0He spends his days teaching voice in the Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre at the University of Oklahoma. \u00a0He is also active in the Oklahoma City Arts community, directing the Philharmonic POPS Chorale and performing frequently with Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma. \u00a0Vince lives in Norman with his wife, Mandy, and their three boys, Alex, Jack and Nate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Administrative Assistant<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Administrative Assistant: Lisa Coker<\/h3>\n

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Lisa joined Memorial Presbyterian Church as the administrative assistant in December of 2015.<\/p>\n

Lisa is a mom of two sweet boys and lives in Midwest City, OK.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Organist and Children\u2019s Choir<\/div>\n
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Organist and Children\u2019s Choir Director: Emily Rudquist<\/h3>\n

\"\"Emily joined Memorial Presbyterian Church as organist in August 2019.<\/p>\n

Our organist and music associate for Children\u2019s Choir is Ms. Emily Rudquist. Emily is from Saint Paul, Minnesota. She has her BA from Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, MN, and is currently studying piano pedagogy and performance at the University of Oklahoma. When asked her favorite musical genre, Emily replied, \u201cBluegrass\/folk music and of course classical music.\u201d What\u2019s on her bucket list? \u201cTo travel to Sweden.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-296","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.memorialpres.org\/WWW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.memorialpres.org\/WWW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.memorialpres.org\/WWW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.memorialpres.org\/WWW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.memorialpres.org\/WWW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.memorialpres.org\/WWW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4407,"href":"http:\/\/www.memorialpres.org\/WWW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296\/revisions\/4407"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.memorialpres.org\/WWW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.memorialpres.org\/WWW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}