Rev. Lou Ann Sellers has served as Associate Pastor for Congregational Care and Mission since 2008.  A native of Gastonia, North Carolina, Lou Ann received her degrees in Business Administration from Wake Forest University and her Master of Divinity from Columbia Theological Seminary.  Her professional experience includes working for an employee benefits consulting firm and as a hospital chaplain at Baptist Hospital, both in Winston-Salem, NC.  She also served as Campus Minister at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, as Associate Pastor in a German Evangelical (Reformed + Lutheran) congregation in Duisburg, Germany and as Associate Presbyter for Women’s and Peace & Justice Issues in the German Evangelical Presbytery in Muelheim on the Ruhr, Germany. 

The position Congregational Care and Mission ties together wonderfully several aspects of Lou Ann’s interests and experience. Her studies abroad during college sparked an interest in working overseas.  This interest has led to several cross-cultural experiences living and working both in Jamaica and Germany and leading college students on international mission trips.  Congregational care involves everything from pastoral care to supporting different groups within the life of the congregation – ranging in ages and stages from the Mature Members to children's Vacation Bible School. 

Through her marriage to German pastor Thomas Herwig, Lou Ann has the wonderful opportunity to live in a cross-cultural household together with their daughter Madelyn.  Her husband Thomas teaches fulltime as Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, History and Political Ethics in the Honors College of the University of Alabama and serves as Parish Associate at First Presbyterian Church. Lou Ann's interests include spending time with her family doing such things as working in the yard, swimming, reading, watching movies and still finding time for the German afternoon coffee and dessert! You can reach Lou Ann by email at lasellers@fpctusc.org.