Pastor Mary Zimmer serves the Grantsville United Methodist Charge (Consisting of Brooksville Church and Knotts Memorial Church) since 1997. She shares her home in Grantsville West Virginia with her only child, a very spoiled dog, named Sugar.
   She received her degree in Early Childhood Education in 1984 and a M.Ed. degree in the field of Human Relations Development in 1986 from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.
   After graduating from Ohio University, Mary lived in Columbus Ohio where she established a Christian preschool center at Brice UMC, and worked part time in the Childhood Development program at Columbus State Community College.
   In the summer of 1992, as part of the Volunteer in Mission program of the UMC, Mary spent eight weeks on the Blackfoot Reservation in Montana. During her stay, she felt her future lay in Christian Education as a missionary and shortly thereafter left the Brice Preschool program and enrolled in Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky graduating with a Masters Degree in Missions and Evangelism in 1995.
   While attending seminary, Mary volunteered for two more mission trips to Native American Reservations. The first was a weekend in 1994 on the Sisseton Wahpeton Reservation in North Dakota. The next was a nine week stay on the Nez Perce Reservation in Idaho during the summer of 1995.
   It was during this time, that the call was placed on her to move into the pastorate. Mary obeyed that call and began serving the Oak Hill/Dale UM Charge located near Marietta in southern Ohio.

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