Staff
Rev. Kathleen Crighton started coming to First when she was five years old, after her family moved to a home a block away on Jefferson Avenue. She was confirmed in the church at the age of twelve. Years later she was ordained as a ruling elder and served on the session during the pastorates of Revs. Ed Gouedy and Will Mackintosh. Her first career as a business and financial journalist took her to Atlanta, where she lived for fifteen years and was active in two Presbyterian churches. In the 1990s, she took courses for laypersons at Columbia Theological Seminary near Atlanta and realized God had been calling her to seminary for a long time. She enrolled at Columbia in 1996, thinking she would write spiritual books like the author Madeleine L’Engle. In the summer of 1998, she did a congregational internship at First under the supervision of Rev. Cliff Nunn and realized her call was to parish ministry. Ordained on the first Sunday of 2001, she served three congregations and was active in the Presbytery of South Louisiana. She retired at the end of 2013 and has preached regularly in several churches in the New Orleans area. She is delighted to serve at First, her spiritual home, and looks forward to the journey ahead.
Kathy married Rich Tatum, her high school boyfriend, at First in 2010. They are a blended family, being owned by four cats and a dog. Rich is a retired computer geek. He is currently a student in information technology, with a specialization in programming and analysis, at Delgado Community College.
Kathy published her first novel in 2019,
The New Normal, a story of life in New Orleans immediately after Katrina. She’s also a certified Louisiana Master Gardener and an occasional knitter. And she has never outgrown her childhood passion for horses – she rides intro dressage at a farm in Folsom.
Cheryl Roberts is the Administrative Assistant at First Presbyterian of New Orleans. She has also been a member of the church for more than 17 years. She has two wonderful adult children De'Antra Armstrong and Christopher Roberts as well as three grandchildren, Ka'mari, Ke'maya and Kaileigh. She has been providing office support for First Presbyterian since 1996 with a break to work for a major law firm in New Orleans for 4 years. She left in August 2005 when hurricane Katrina hit, evacuating to Bryan, College Station, Texas, (a place she had never heard of before) and began working at First Presbyterian Church in Bryan, Texas as an Administrative Assistant. She learned to love Texas and First Presbyterian, Bryan, and still keeps in contact with them. She returned to New Orleans and to the the staff of First Presbyterian Church in 2010.
Cheryl thinks that when God makes a path for you to follow, he will put things in front of you to recognize and as long as you follow his lead your life will be filled with joy, happiness and prosperity.
Parent volunteer Tracy Rene Helms-Capasso teaches the pre-teen Sunday School class on scheduled Sundays and is the leader of the church Youth Group.
Dee Boling has been a member of First Presbyerian Church since 2002, when she and her husband Randy joined after the birth of their son Dylan. She has served as an elder on the Session (our church governing board) and is also the church representative to the Wetmore Distribution Committee.
Dee is the senior director of communications and marketing for the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and also runs a dog boarding business out of her home. She also spent 12 years in corporate event planning with Pete Fountain Productions and has all the skills needed to help couples to plan the logistics of their weddings at First Presbyterian Church of New Orleans. Dee can be reached via email at weddings@fpcno.org.
Terry Ruppel is the one of the members of the web team.
Contact Info
5401 South Claiborne Ave
New Orleans, LA 70125
Email: info@fpcno.org
Phone:(504) 866-7409
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