Grace Weedman moved to this area in 2002 when her husband Charles became the Minister of Traditional Music here at FPC.  He resigned in October of 2004, and she became the interim parish visitor on March 7, 2005.  (You may ask her how it is that she is still an interim after so many years.)  In addition to her work on staff, she sings in the Chancel Choir. She will tell you that she has the best job in the church because she gets to meet and visit with so many of its wonderful members.  Her job description is fundamentally to be a blessing to others, but she says that the greatest blessings flow in the opposite direction.
 
Grace has been in church since her parents took her to the nursery department of her home church as an infant.  She doesn’t know of a time when she didn’t love Jesus, and He has always been a part of her life.  She often looks back over her life and has seen His hand is every aspect of it.
Grace and Charles moved to Hampton Roads from Monroe, Louisiana, where she taught gifted English for twenty years and had been the coordinator of the gifted program in her high school. She attended Baylor University, L. S. U., and finally received her Bachelor's degree from Delta State University after a hiatus caused by the Berlin Crisis. She received her Master's degree from Northeast Louisiana University which is now called the University of Louisiana in Monroe.  Her husband Charles was a professor at ULM, taught voice and directed the opera workshop among other things.

Charles and Grace have four children: Leslie, in New York; Vicki, in Phoenix; Bill, in West Des Moines; and Jimi, in Austin. All are married except Leslie. Grace and Charles have seven grandchildren and several great grandchildren (the number continually increasing). Grace loves to read, to write, to garden, to travel, and to be with her children and grandchildren and great grandchildren.

At the present time, we are in the midst of our sermon series on remembering. She says, “I’ve been working on memorizing the passages suggested, but having read and heard them all my life in the King James Version, I’m finding it more difficult to “re-learn” than to learn the NIV from scratch.  Senior moments are morphing into senior hours.”