EDWARDS CHURCH - Key Persons

Alexis Ortiz joined Edwards Church as the Church and Campus Administrator in September 2023. She provides support to Rev. Debbie Clark and all of our staff and members and manages all campus rentals. Before joining the staff at Edwards Church, Alexis worked in nonprofit healthcare and in Human Resources Healthcare Recruitment.

Karen Nell brings creative approaches to youth and intergenerational fellowship, Christian education, worship and community service to ministry. Music, metaphor and multi-sensory engagement characterize her leadership style. Called to a bi-vocational ministry, Karen Nell has also served many congregations in New England in times of turmoil or transition through the Walking in the Way of Peace program of conflict transformation. She is currently coordinator of the Journey of the Spirit program for Open Spirit Center, facilitating deeper interfaith relationships and understanding. Karen Nell is an avid knitter, quilter and gardener, and lives with her husband, the Rev. Andy Burr, and their two daughters in Lunenburg, MA.

A lifelong church musician, Rick Seaholm earned his Master of Music in Sacred Music (choir directing and vocal performance) at Westminster Choir College in 2001, and Bachelor of Music in vocal performance at the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 1999. He has served Edwards Church since 2009, earning his commissioning through the United Church of Christ in 2017.