THE FREDERICK

SCHOOL OF RELIGION

Learning for Life

ABOUT US

Overview

 The Frederick School of Religion was established in 1983 and is managed by and operates entirely with a Board of volunteer lay persons.  FSR offers to clergy and lay persons short courses on a variety of religious topics.  Each year the School offers eight to twelve courses during the late winter and early spring, generally coinciding with Lent.  Course topics vary from year to year, depending upon student requests and instructor availability.  The School strives to include students and instructors from a variety of religious persuasions and experience.  Courses are structured to foster free exchange among all members and all points of view are welcome.  The School is a non-profit, inter-faith outreach that is supported by contributions from area congregations, voluntary patrons, the Frederick Ministerium and student registration fees.  All contributions are welcome!  The School uses facilities generously provided by a different Frederick area congregation each year. Recent hosts have included Beth Sholom Congregation, First Baptist Church, Glade United Church of Christ, Trinity United Methodist Church, Brook Hill United Methodist Church and St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are awarded to students requesting them.

 

Our Organization and Management

 

The Frederick School of Religion, Inc. is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit corporation under the Internal Revenue Service Code.  Its volunteer Board of Directors includes participants from many religious groups.  The board consists of a President, Vice-President, a Secretary, a Treasurer  and leaders in charge of various necessary functions: registration, publicity, book store, refreshments, logistics, and congregational recruitment.    All these corporate officers and leaders, along with at-large participants from interested Frederick county congregations, together constitute the Board of Directors, which meets several times a year to conduct the business of the School. 

 

The members of the Board of Directors include:

 PRESIDENT*               

Gerry Blessing                       Evangelical Reformed UCC, Frederick MD     

VICE-PRESIDENT*      

Don Zetterberg                       Brook Hill UMC, Frederick MD        

SECRETARY*               

Charlotte Pasquerette           Calvary UMC, Frederick MD

TREASURER *               

William (Bill) Pasquerette       Calvary UMC, Frederick  MD                          

REGISTRAR                  

Bill Pailen                                Calvary UMC, Frederick MD              

BOOK SALES                 

George Walton                      Community of Christ, Washington, DC

PUBLICITY                     

Mary Lou Blessing                 Evangelical Reformed UCC,  Frederick  MD

BROCHURE                    

Cristy Stup                            Brook Hill UMC, Frederick  MD     

CONGREGATIONAL RECRUITERS    

Nan Doggett                         Calvary UMC, Frederick  MD

Ruth Ann Engel                     Glade UCC, Walkersville  MD

 

 REFRESHMENTS            

Nancy Pace                            Currently Unaffiliated

Virginia (Ginger) Ward           Calvary UMC, Frederick  MD

Dee Grimmitt                          Community of Christ, Frederick  MD

HISTORIAN                    

Nan Doggett                           Calvary UMC, Frederick MD                             

LOGISTICS                      

Henry Walter                            Trinity UMC, Frederick MD            

PRESIDENT EMERITUS   

Nan Doggett                           Calvary UMC, Frederick MD

TECHNOLOGY MANAGER

Joseph Ward                           Calvary UMC, Frederick MD

MEMBERS-AT-LARGE        

Gail K Ellam                         Evangelical Reformed UCC,  Frederick  MD

Bob Mauck                           Evangelical Lutheran Church, Urbana, MD

JoAnn Mauck                         Evangelical Lutheran Church, Urbana, MD

Phyllis Schwartz                     Beth Sholom Congregation, Frederick MD

Gary Schwartz                         Beth Sholom Congregation, Frederick MD

Virgil Soule                               First Baptist Church, Frederick MD

Doris Walton                      Community of Christ, Washington, DC

*  Members of the Board of the Corporation