She is a lifelong Episcopalian and Mainer who was raised in Portland and currently lives in Gorham with her husband of nine years, Garrett, and three young children. She attended and taught at St. Peter’s Church in Portland where she met her husband. Their fourth child is due this fall.
Keniston has 10 years of experience teaching in a variety of settings, including public schools, an online university and her own home-based preschool. For the last two years she has been the Christian formation director at St. Ann’s Church in Windham.
Her parents traveled internationally on business which led to her attending colleges in Sydney, Australia, and France before graduating from the University of Maine in Orono. She also has master’s degrees in international relations and elementary education.
St. Paul’s records indicate that in the year 1844, when the church was founded, the church school had eight teachers and 30 students. With the 2012 completion of the second floor of the Parish Hall and administration wing, several classrooms and an area for the unique Sunday morning family service begun in September 2012 have provided expanded space for Christian Formation programs. These include children 3-5, K-grade 2, ages 6-12, and grades 9 to 12 (J2A — Journey to Adulthood).
Four members of the J2A group and their three accompanying adults returned from a pilgrimage to the Isle of Iona, Scotland, learning about the birthplace of Christianity in Scotland.
Keniston feels gratified to have been invited into so many young hearts and minds through her work in the Episcopal Church, and is enthusiastic and deeply blessed that God has led her to begin a new journey with the people at St. Paul. She began on Thursday, Aug. 1.
St. Paul’s, celebrating its 169th year, is pleased to welcome newcomers and to offer its services for young and maturing children and their parents, including nursery care, and children and adult parish choirs.
Please call the church office at 725-5342 or stop in for church literature and more information.
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