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Gretchen Combs
Director of Children's Ministries
• Pre-school teacher for 12 years in Greenville, Texas;
• Director of Children’s Ministry at Kavanaugh UMC, Greenville, Texas
for 6 years;
• Missionary in rural communities of East Texas.
Board & membership: Past: Board member of Drug Free Greenville (Greenville,TX); board member Habitat for Humanity (Greenville, TX); CASA of Hunt County; North Texas Conference task force member of Council of Bishop's Initiative on Children & Poverty; North Texas Conference Resource Review Team; 3 year facilitator for Perkins School of Children's Ministry; over 20 years worked passionately with creative problem solving teams (elementary through high school students) in Odyssey of the Mind and Destination Imagination activities from coaching teams to Challenge Master for local competitions to World competitions; member of the Destination Imagination Train the Trainers Texas Team. Present: North Texas Conference Shalom Site Review Team; North Texas Conference Safe Sanctuaries Task Force; member of North Texas Christian Educators Federation and North Texas Children's Ministry Network.
How in the world did a good Methodist gal from a very small town in Minnesota, end up in Dallas? It wasn’t easy, but you can only be cold for so long! In 1971 Gretchen and her brand new husband, Clay, packed their car, and headed for Virginia. In Washing, D.C., she began a career in advertising, while Clay was assigned to The White House under presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford. After 12 years they moved back to Minnesota. It was there that Gretchen began attending her small home church again. As she began teaching Sunday school, she realized it was she who was being taught once again. She was finding her calling, finding her long germinating passion for children and igniting in them their unbridled love of God. After moving to Texas, a minister friend suggested Gretchen look into Children’s Christian Education, and everything fell into place. Gretchen has been married for 38 years to Clay; they have two children, Nick (28) specialty pastry chef for Whole Foods and Kya (23) manager of Bath & Bodyworks store; and two Airedale Terriers, Winston & Tilly (both are 5).
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