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Dr. Glenn Jordan has long-standing roots in the southeast in general, and the Triangle area in particular. He and his wife Beth met while in high school in Norfolk, Virginia. Glenn migrated to Durham to earn his undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering at Duke University, while Beth was concurrently pursuing a degree in accounting from the University of Richmond. After a stint in Charlottesville (medical school at UVA), opportunities for post-graduate training and subsequent clinical practice (neonatology) resulted in “transplantation”…

Richard Mayes is a North Carolina native, married, with three adult children, and a member of The Church of the Good Shepherd since 1996. Moving his family to one of his wife’s family homes in Durham in 1994, he settled into life in the county near a thriving city and continued working in manufacturing, commuting daily to Virginia. After retiring from product development, he offered to fill in the gap for a short time as a handyman while the church…

Matt McClure’s first foray into church musicianship was in his 4th grade year on the stage of a little Presbyterian church in Knoxville, TN. Even then, he knew he was made to play music, and he focused his studies on that pursuit. In 2003, the McClures moved to the Triangle for Matt to work at UNC-Chapel Hill as one of the band directors and the saxophone teacher. In 2013, he started working part-time in the music ministry of Church of…

Liz Stoioff grew up in central North Carolina, then headed to Greenville, South Carolina to study at Furman University. After a brief stint back in North Carolina to get her master’s degree at UNC Chapel Hill, she headed back to the Palmetto State for her first few years in the “real world.” Liz eventually found her way back to the Tar Heel State, and has been working at CGS since early 2014. As Communications Coordinator, Liz compiles the weekly bulletin,…

Felix Sung grew up in South Central Pennsylvania, in the shadow of Gettysburg, Antietem, South Mountain, and Harpers Ferry battlefields, where his earliest ambition was to become a Civil War historian. As a high school sophomore, life—in the form of an Apple II computer—intervened, diverting his energies into pulling off stupid and annoying computer tricks, thereby laying the foundation for his current role at CGS. When not engaged in stupid computer tricks, Felix enjoys playing euphonium, arranging choral and wind…

A Chapel Hill native, Allyson Wieland has a background in the unlikely combination of Home Economics and Law, graduating from Georgetown in 1987. After two judicial clerkships, she became an associate at the Washington DC firm of Steptoe & Johnson, working in the regulatory affairs division. Wanting to use her skills and training to enhance local church ministry, Allyson enrolled at Philadelphia College of Bible (now Cairn University) in 1994. After completing the program, she found herself coming full circle…