Lou Ann Sellers

Rev. Lou Ann Sellers has served as Associate Pastor for Congregational Care and Mission since 2008.  A native of Gastonia, North Carolina, Lou Ann received her degrees in Business Administration from Wake Forest University and her Master of Divinity from Columbia Theological Seminary.  Her professional experience includes working for an employee benefits consulting firm for three years and as hospital chaplain for one year at Baptist Hospital both in Winston-Salem, NC.  She has also served as Campus Minister at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte for four years, as Associate Pastor in a German Evangelical (Reformed + Lutheran) congregation for two years in Duisburg, Germany and as Associate Presbyter for Women’s and Peace & Justice Issues for four years in the German Evangelical Presbytery in Muelheim on the Ruhr, Germany. 

The position Congregational Care and Mission ties together wonderfully several aspects of Lou Ann’s interests and experience. Her studies abroad during college sparked an interest in working overseas.  This interest has led to several cross-cultural experiences living and working both in Jamaica and Germany and leading college students on international mission trips.  Congregational care involves everything from pastoral care to supporting different groups within the life of the congregation – ranging in ages and stages from the Mature Members to the Young Adults to even supporting the two-year-old Sunday school teaching. 

Through her marriage to a German pastor, Dr. Thomas Herwig, Lou Ann has the wonderful opportunity to live in a cross-cultural household together with their daughter Madelyn.  Her husband Thomas teaches adjunct at the University of Alabama and serves as Parish Associate at First Presbyterian Church.  Her daughter Madelyn attends First Presbyterian Preschool.  Lou Ann’s interests include spending time with her family doing such things as singing together at the piano, working in the yard, reading many children’s stories and still finding time for the German afternoon coffee and dessert!