Hillary Coffee

FAMILY

HOMETOWN:  New Canaan, Connecticut

SPOUSE NAME:  Clay

CHILDREN:  Carson (1999), Campbell (2001) and Cole (2001)

MINISTRY

SERVING AS:  Coordinator of Ministry to Women

DUTIES:  recognizing the gifts of women and connecting them with places to serve, leading & teaching bible studies, building teams and developing leaders, planning retreats and serving to encourage opportunities for women to connect, serve, grow.

PASSIONS:   “…on earth as it is in heaven…” seeing a plot of earth become a garden, a blank canvas become a painting, something dirty become clean, brokenness being mended, minds and hearts becoming alive to God and His Word...beauty, redemption and restoration, seeing unnecessary burdens get lifted.  Loving and serving the Church.

PHILOSOPHY OF MINISTRY & LIFE:   Ministry that has eternal value is done in God’s economy, with His priorities, in His way, and deeply depends on Him.  It is not simply the actions or personality of any one person.  This requires living by faith, and not by sight, the first being last, and the ones with the greatest authority and power being servants. 

EDUCATION

Master of Divinity, Covenant Theological Seminary, 1999
Bachelor of Arts in English and Art, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, 1994

FAVORITES:

SCRIPTURE(S): Genesis 1:26-31; Proverbs 20:5 “The purposes of a man’s heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out”.  “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble”

QUOTE:  For many of the great danger to our faith is not that we will renounce it.  Rather, we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.  We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.  John Ortberg

MUSIC:  U2, Coldplay, Soundtrack of the movie Once; Indigo Girls, Dave Matthews, 80’s alternative bands.

MOVIES:  Much Ado About Nothing;  Once; Garden State; The Station Agent; Pride & Prejudice (BBC version); Princess Bride; Slumdog Millionaire; Whale Rider; Babette’s Feast; Movies with thoughtful humor, or that you can have a really good discussion about.

HOBBIES: Tennis, Golf, Painting/Art, Gardening, Cooking, Biking through the park (Tower Grove) with my family and black lab named Pepper.  Anything outside and active, or trying a new really good restaurant.

FOODS: Lobster, a really good hot spinach artichoke dip; tapas; milk chocolate

OTHER QUIRKYNESSES:  drawn to really good freshly brewed coffee; avoid at all costs anything else. 

MINISTRY WEBSITES/PODCASTS:   

www.redeemer.com (Tim Keller) 
www.keylife.org (Steve Brown)
www.thirdmill.org
www.ransomfellowship.org
www.covenantseminary.edu
www.biblegateway.com