St. Mary's Episcopal Church
Staff & Leaders

Carol Gadsden

Hailing originally from Syracuse, NY, the Rev. Carol Gadsden comes to St. Mary's via Philadelphia where she spent five years in interim work. Now located in Sparta, she enjoys a geographical closeness to her two adult daughters (one is in Manhattan, the other in Boston). A cradle Episcopalian (she was born and raised in the Episcopal Church), Carol brings nearly thirty years of ministerial experience in a variety of settings and roles, including priest-in-charge, interim, vicar, chaplain, and youth minister, in the dioceses of New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, California and Pennsylvania. Her ministry is characterized by the deep and abiding belief that her role is to equip the lower case "s" saints by providing opportunities for education, formation, nurture and support in expectation and hope that parishioners become comfortable and secure in facing the challenges, joys and uncertainties of this world. She says of St. Mary's, "We are a congregation that enjoys each other. We pray together, and we play together. We take our faith seriously, but ourselves less so.