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The Rev. Nancy W. Hanna, Associate Rector
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Nancy Hanna has been at Calvary-St. George's since September, 2004. Born in Washington, DC, Nancy grew up in Long Island, N.Y., earned her B.A. degree from Harvard University, her Ed.M. degree from Lesley College, and her M.Div. degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York City. When she returned to church, she was drawn immediately to Christian education, and eventually to study at Union Theological Seminary, where she unexpectedly found her teachers urging her to consider ordination.
 
Nancy entered the parish ministry in 1985 serving as Associate Rector and then Interim Rector at St. Mary's, Scarborough, NY for four years. She was Associate Rector at Christ's Church, Rye, NY, for six years. During a 1995 sabbatical leave in Oxford, England to study methods of evangelism, she encountered the Alpha course at Holy Trinity Brompton Church, in central London and returned to teach Alpha in her home for her Rye parishioners. She organized the first two Alpha training conferences in New York attended by nearly 1,000 clergy and lay leaders in 1996 and 1997.
 
At Calvary-St. George's, in addition to supporting the rector in the core duties of a parish priest (leading worship and preaching, pastoral counseling, officiating at weddings, baptisms, and funerals), Nancy teaches 3 Alpha courses a year and has initiated The Marriage Course and The Marriage Preparation Course. Her service to the Episcopal Diocese of New York includes chairman of the evangelism committee, member of the budget committee and service as a trustee of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York City.