Pastor Ann N. Morgan
Courtesy - Staten Island Advance

Our Pastor
The Rev. Ann N. Morgan was appointed as the eleventh pastor to serve The United Methodist Church of Merrick, effective January 1, 2009. Fifty years after the ordination of women in the United Methodist Church, she is Merrick's first woman pastor, but is also a third generation preacher in her family.

Reverend Morgan is an ordained Elder of the New York Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church.  She has served two other churches since her 1990 ordination, The Community Methodist Church in Middle Village, Queens and Bethel United Methodist Church in Tottenville, Staten Island.

Originally from Washington State, Reverend Morgan attended Perkin's School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas and earned her Master's of Divinity Degree at The Theological School at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.