Charles Sutton:  

Life I am an "Air Force brat," so I attended ten schools before graduating from Mt Pleasant HS in Delaware in 1965. These moves account for my various HS communities, since I signed on to them to see who I would have graduated with. I also attended two colleges (UVa and the USAFA) and two seminaries, so there are a few more communities -- plus I had friends in other schools, so there are some others... My HS yearbook mentions my desire to be an Air Force officer after attending the Air Force Academy. I did get an appointment to the Academy in the spring of my first year at Virginia, and I attended one semester - and discovered that I was not as military as I thought. At times I wish I had stayed, and that I had become a pilot, but I have been happy with how things have turned out. I got my bachelor's degree from Virginia and attended a semester and a half of graduate psychology before deciding I was cut out for something else. I then worked for the State Health Dept in Va for four years, and I volunteered with the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship at Madison College (now JMU). In 1974 I decided to go to seminary, and went to Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Mass. There I met Mary and we were married in 1975. After GCTS, I worked with IVCF in eastern Mass, and then went to Virginia to seek ordination in the Episcopal Church. I was ordained in the Episcopal Church in 1982. I have served parishes in Rome NY, rural SC, Gladstone NJ, and Whitinsville MA. I have been in MA since 1991. We have two children, Andrew and Elizabeth. I have made two trips abroad for ministry, to Costa Rica in 1988 and to Uganda in 1994. We love to camp and sail. I have fond memories of of all the schools I attended, and I remember some friends at all of them, although unfortunately not everyone I met. My best wishes to all! I have retired in the fall of 2009. It has been a good change from being a full-time pastor. I have done some non-ch...Expand for more