Rebekah Wedge Thornhill
Rebekah Wedge Thornhill is Director of Family and Youth Ministries at Our Saviour Lutheran Church in Jamaica, Queens, NY where she handles most of the Education and Programing for toddlers to young adults. Follow her on Twitter @rebekahwedge. She is also a contributing blogger for the Metro New York Synod's Children Youth and Family Committee blog atstoriesinfaith.wordpress.com. Rebekah reviewed content for re:form Traditions. She would be voted the re:form contributor most likely to be heard three rooms away by her laugh.
Theological training: Master of Theology and the Arts from Union Theological Seminary, B.A. from Gustavus Adolphus College (Religion and Psychology majors)
Family: I live in New York with my astrophysicist partner, Doug.
3 words that describe sparkhouse: actively reconstructing church
A favorite theologian quote: Out of love for the truth and the desire to bring it to light… (Martin Luther)
Your work on re:form is a success if a youth responded by: understanding the meaning of grace as a teenager and feeling it as a living presence in their life. It has taken me the majority of my lifetime to understand it. I know many adults that can quote what someone else has told them about grace, but don’t actually feel the impact grace has on their lives. It is absolutely life-changing.