Terilyn Lawson installed as first resident in PCCMP Chaplain Candidate Residency Program

by Emily Enders Odom | Presbyterian News Service

The Rev. Terilyn Lawson is installed by Glacier Presbytery, October 23, 2016. (Photo by Vera White)

LOUISVILLE – When the Rev. Terilyn Lawson was installed on Sunday, October 23, as associate pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Great Falls, Montana—and concurrently as the first resident in the Chaplain Candidate Residency Program newly launched by the Presbyterian Council for Chaplains and Military Personnel (PCCMP)—she had to marvel at what God had done.

Only a few short years ago, the theologically-trained Lawson, who received her M.Div. in 2010 from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, found herself unfulfilled and underemployed in a job for which she was clearly overqualified, when a stroll through the mall changed the course of her life. Read more…