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“Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants” Deuteronomy 32:1-3

                                                      

 

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Rev. Lisa Graves

revlisagraves@windstream.net

Lisa came to First Presbyterian Church Clarkesville on February 14, 2005.  She was born in Germany, but her family immigrated to the U.S. when she was 7 yrs old.  She attended Nursing School in Chicago, IL (Passavant Hospital, now Northwestern Memorial).  She received her AD degree from DeKalb Junior College in Clarkston GA and her BA from National Louis University in Atlanta, GA.

She was an RN the first half of her adult life before going to seminary to answer God's call to be a pastor.  She graduated from Columbia Theological Seminary with a Masters of Divinity in 1996 and has served as an ordained pastor since 1999.

Lisa is married to Brice and they have a blended family with 5 grown children and 11 grandchildren.