Meet our Vestry
The Vestry
O Eternal God, the foundation of all wisdom and the source of all courage, enlighten with your grace the Wardens and Vestry of this congregation, and so rule their minds, and guide their counsels, that in all things they may seek your glory and promote the mission of your Church; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Kevin Brown
Fellowship
Kevin and his family have been members of Trinity Church for thirteen years. Many parishioners have watched his son Trey grow up in the church. Trey is now 23 years old and about to graduate from Western Kentucky University. Kevin served on the vestry back in 2016 and took on the role of hospitality chair. His duties were to oversee the coffee hour and schedule the monthly parish breakfast. He was also in charge of the Twelfth Night Celebration. He is honored to have been asked to serve on the vestry for another 3-year term.
For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life. - Ephesians 2:10
Kelly Skeens
Senior Warden
Kelly is a lifelong member of Trinity Church. Her parents became members when the church was located on 4th Street. Kelly and husband of over thirty years, Glenn Skeens, along with their extended family have been blessed to experience many baptisms, confirmations, marriages, and funerals at Trinity Church. Kelly is honored to work together to grow the church through the parish vision of ongoing Christian education, diversity of people and ideas, fellowship and hospitality, and works of mercy. She served on the vestry nearly twenty years ago when her three boys were young because she knew the importance of welcoming young families into the church.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. - Galatians 5:22-23
Beth Whitmer
I am the daughter of Barbara Hanselman. I have lived almost all my life in Owensboro and I grew up as a Lutheran. My late husband and I started attending Trinity Church in 2010. We felt the warmth and welcoming of Trinity Church and continued attending. The church helped us so much as my husband went through his journey to the end. I have been a member since 2013. I have three grown sons and ten grandkids with two great grandkids. I had been involved when my mother needed help with coffee hour fellowship. In the last few years, I have not been involved and now I feel it is time to get involved. I am a quiet person, but I will warm up once I get to know you. I am honored that you asked me to be on the vestry.
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.
Hallelujah! - Psalm 150:6
Laurie Monarch
Secretary
My husband Bob and I have been members of Trinity Church since 2016, a couple of years after we moved to Hardinsburg, Kentucky following Bob’s retirement from the U.S. Air Force. I was raised in the Episcopal Church until my family moved from New York to Maine, where we were unable to find a local parish. Many years later, I found my way back to the church in my late 20s. Bob and I were so happy to be confirmed by the Rt. Rev. Terry Allen White, the Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky’s eighth bishop. I welcome the opportunity to serve on the vestry and become more involved in the life and work of parish, where we have felt a wonderful sense of welcome and belonging from the very first day we walked through the doors of Trinity Church.
Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing. - 1 Thessalonians 5:11
Deborah Nunley-Winters
Junior Warden
Debbie was confirmed at Trinity Church on May 7, 1989 under the ministry of Fr. Glendon Coppick. Debbie has previously served on the vestry as junior warden and on the altar guild from 1989-2017. Debbie’s career has been in real estate; and though retired, she maintains owernship of Century Property Management Company. During this vestry term, she will support the stability and continued growth of the parish.
Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. - Philippians 4: 6-7
Steve Obermann
Stewardship
Steve and his wife Deb moved to Owensboro to be with their son Isaac and daughter-in-law Brooke and their grandchildren, Sophia, Noah, and Sammy. They moved from Middlesboro, a small town in Southeast Kentucky. Steve started the Edward Jones office there in 1985 and is now retired. They attended St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Middlesboro, where he was blessed to serve in every leadership capacity as a vestry member, a junior warden, and a senior warden. Middlesboro is in the Episcopal Diocese of Lexington, in which Steve served a partial two-year term and a full three-year term on the diocesan executive council. Steve also served on the committee to help select a bishop candidate for the Episcopal Diocese of Lexington.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge;
fools despise wisdom and instruction. - Proverbs 1:7
Sheila Webster
Welcome Ministry
On a warm August morning in 1950, far up in the Appalachian Mountains, I was born in our small house at 5:02 AM. At 5:03 AM, my Daddy gave me my first bath in the kitchen sink. I lived up a holler where my father worked as an underground coal miner. During my early years, my brothers and sisters and I were sent to a Baptist church. My mother and father did not agree on religion. My mother grew up Baptist and my father’s only experience with church was going to the tent meetings which were common in Eastern Kentucky.
We lived in the mountains until I was 15, then we moved to Madisonville, Kentucky. After moving, I started looking for a church to attend. Dragging my younger sister along, I visited several churches but did not settle on one in particular.
Many years later, while working at Texas Gas, I was transferred to Owensboro and found Trinity Episcopal Church. I felt welcomed and accepted as I was. I left church each week feeling happy and filled with the Holy Spirit. Contrast that with the Baptist church, where I would leave feeling guilty, sinful, and unworthy. The difference was significant. I was confirmed in 1996 and knew I had found my church home.
At Trinity Church, I taught Sunday School for several years, helped my husband Doug with the acolytes, and worked with Doug on remodeling the chapel. Here I have found a place that soothes my soul, made me understand the meaning of love and compassion, and makes me want to strive to become a better follower of Jesus.
Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it. - Proverbs 22:6