My friend Kait snapped this photo of me in London, England.
Hello, Faith Shelton! My name is Emily Shane and I have just started here at Faith as a new office staff member with a variety of roles and responsibilities. I am a lifelong ELCA Lutheran; my parents are both pastors of an ELCA church up in Poulsbo, Washington, and we as a family have lived here in western Washington for the past 18 years. I graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in 2019 (alongside Kara Barkman and Hannah Peterson) with a degree in computer science and a music minor. After graduation, I served with Young Adults in Global Mission for the 2019-2020 service year until it was cut short in March by COVID-19. My placement was in the UK in a Church of England parish in South London where I was primarily doing office administration, communications, and youth work. As a representative from that church, I also got to volunteer in local schools as a reading tutor, worship leader, and assembly speaker! Now that I’m back in the US, my long-term goal is to get a master’s degree and to become a math and computer science teacher.
Since you don’t know me very well, here are some conversation starters!
You could ask me
about my favorite place that I’ve traveled (my answer will likely change daily!),
what I missed most about the USA while I was in the UK, or
about the coolest things I did as part of the PLU music program.
Kids might want to ask me
who my favorite Animal Crossing villagers are,
what fictional character my dog is named after, or
what my “camp name” was when I was a counselor at a tech camp!
Feel free to email me to introduce yourself! I look forward to meeting you (virtually and/or physically distantly) in the coming days.