Rev. Diane Carter

Rev. Diane M. Carter - Youth/Associate Minister

Rev. Carter was called to be Norfield’s Youth Minister/ Congregational Associate in February 2006. She had previously served as an Assistant Director of Campus Ministry and Coordinator of the Global Outreach Program at

the Lincoln Center campus of Fordham University.

Rev. Carter is a life-long member of the Congregational Churches in the United Church of Christ, from Ohio to New York to Connecticut. She recently graduated from New York Theological Seminary in New York City with a Masters of Divinity degree in May 2007.

She is a second-career minister. Her first career was in the theatre, where she worked as the technical director and production manager for FordhamUniversity’s Theatre Department where she also taught technical theatre for nine years. Rev. Carter also has experience in sound, lighting and set design, with her favorite memory being her opportunity to design the set for Yolanda King’s one woman show, Trippin’.

Rev. Carter is a former captain of the Pioneer Hook & Ladder Company of the Pleasantville Volunteer Fire Department. Her experiences volunteering in the relief efforts at both Ground Zero and the Fresh Kills site had a profound impact on her spiritual life and precipitated her call to the ministry.

She has also been actively involved in service missions in the United States and countries abroad, including Papua New Guinea, South Africa, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Thailand, Jamaica, Guyana, Brazil, and most recently, Ecuador with the 2006 and 2007 Norfield mission team.

Rev. Carter is originally from a small farm town just west of Toledo, Ohio, and her family, including three nieces and five nephews all live in the area. Diane now lives in Weston with her two “boys,” an orange tiger named Charlie and a brown tiger named Junior. diane@norfield.org