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Sherill was baptized at Grace UMC in Gaithersburg, Maryland; confirmed at Brooklyn Ave UMC in Dallas, Texas; and married at Gadsden First United Methodist Church. Her longest association with any congregation has been with the Epworth United Methodist Church, here in Huntsville, where her family had worshiped for 21 years. Sherill graduated from Gadsden High School and then from Auburn University with a degree in industrial management. She worked for the Department of the Army as a management analyst doing efficiency studies before going to work for McDonnell Douglas Space Systems at first as a logistics analyst and then as an experiment operations engineer on the Spacehab program. Before the birth of their second child, she completed her MBA at Alabama A & M. Following the birth of their third child, she quit her job to stay at home with her children. While at home raising her children, she first began to recognize her calling to ministry. She was licensed as a local pastor at Annual Conference in 1999. Licensed with her that night was a new friend, Elise Moss, who encouraged her to consider attending Vanderbilt Divinity School. As Sherill tells it, “When I arrived at Vanderbilt, Elise took me under her wing and mentored me through my seminary experience.” Her first appointment was as pastor of McDonnell United Methodist Church and as the associate/English pastor of the Huntsville Korean United Methodist Church from 1999-2001. Her appointment to Epworth came after that, from 2001-2005. Sherill received her Master of Divinity from Vanderbilt Divinity School in May of 2003, and at graduation was awarded the Academic Achievement Award and the Florence Conwell Prize for outstanding preaching. She has been married to her husband, Craig, for 25 years. Craig is an electrical engineer with Dynetics, Inc. They have three children. Steven is 21 and is in his senior year at Auburn. He is majoring in math and plans to teach math when he finishes school. Phillip is 17 and is a junior at Buckhorn High School. Laura is 16 and is a sophomore at Buckhorn. Sherill Clontz,
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At annual conference 2005, Sherill Clontz was appointed as our associate pastor.
She came to us after serving several years as the associate pastor
at Epworth United Methodist Church.