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Music Director
Emily Adams is a versatile musician who has worked and performed throughout New England. Prior to joining the team at CGS, Emily was music director at Main Street United Methodist Church from 2018-2021. Emily has also served as organist at the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Nashua, and at Allentown United Methodist Church in Allentown, NJ.
As an organist, Emily has been a featured recitalist at First Church in Nashua, Old West Organ Society’s summer recital series in downtown Boston, and All Saints Episcopal Church in Brookline, MA, in addition to recitals at Main Street.
Emily is also an experienced ballet pianist and has worked with Boston Ballet School, Boston Ballet’s apprentice company, BBII, San Francisco Ballet School, and the San Francisco Opera ballet corps. In 2015, she had the unique opportunity to work with AXIS Dance Company in Oakland, CA, to create and perform an original work to new choreography. She has also worked closely with BBII as a rehearsal pianist.
In addition to her work at the keyboard, Emily is also a classically-trained mezzo-soprano, and has performed in operas, oratorios, and concerts throughout Boston and southern New Hampshire. She has been a featured soloist with Cantata Singers and has performed operatic roles with Opera51, Cambridge Chamber Ensemble, Lowell House Opera, and MassOpera.
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Sunday School Director
Kate Engle has been a member of Church of the Good Shepherd for over 15 years. She started teaching Sunday School in 2015 and has always enjoyed all the interesting conversations with the kiddos about the Bible stories and God. She is excited to continue working with the children and their families as Sunday School Coordinator.
Kate has a B.A. in Russian language and culture from St. Olaf College and a Master of Social Work degree from UNH, and has worked with children and families as a Social Worker for a Massachusetts-based non-profit organization for over 15 years. She is a wife and mother of three, and her main hobby is learning ethnic dances from around the world.
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John Budzyna
John is excited to be on the Good Shepherd team. He has worked in non-profit settings for 25 years and comes to Church of the Good Shepherd from the Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center in Newburyport, MA where he and his wife Deirdre live. When he is not at CGS, John supports other non-profits and small businesses through his company Solutions Bookkeeping. John’s wife Deirdre is a Professor at Northern Essex Community College in Haverhill, MA, teaching Early Childhood Education. Having met on stage in The Wizard of Oz in Summer Stock, John and Deirdre continue their theatre endeavors directing and producing community theatre that involve actors aged 4 to 84 through Acting Out Productions and The Actor’s Studio of Newburyport. They have three grown children; Colin, Erin and Maggie.
Special Projects
Johanna Graves
Johanna Graves was born in Michigan but grew up in northern Indiana. She and her husband Allan moved to NH in 2001, fresh from college, and have lived in Nashua, then Manchester, and came back to Nashua to start their family. They began attending Church of the Good Shepherd in 2014. A dear departed friend voluntold Johanna to the choir 2017 which began a deepening of her commitment to the church and people of CGS. She has been involved in various activities and committees ever since and was confirmed in the Episcopal Church in 2023.
Johanna is an avid reader, gardener, artist, birder, and wife and mother. She has worked everything from retail to office to light industrial and she is glad to bring her skills to work on behalf of CGS.