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Leadership: Clergy & StaffAll church members play a role in governance, from decisions in parish life to our national policy-making body, the General Convention. Lay and ordained people, together with the church's bishops, share the responsibilities of ministry, oversight and legislation.
The ministers of the church are lay persons, deacons, priests and bishops. Our ClergyThe Rev. Dr. Robert "Odie" Odierna, Rector  Odie grew up in Seaford, Long Island, New York. He graduated with a B.A. in Psychology from Hobart College in 1971; a M.Div.from the General Theological Seminary in 1975; and a Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) in Psychotherapy from the Andover Newton Theological School in 1996. He was ordained as a priest in 1975.Odie formerly served as Chaplain at the University of Vermont, Curate and Priest-in-Charge at Christ Church, Ridgewood, New Jersey, and Rector at All Saints, Oakville, Connecticut. In 1980 he founded the Waterbury Pastoral Counseling Center in Connecticut. As a Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors since 1982 he still conducts a small psychotherapy practice about five hours per week. Odie has been Rector at CGS since 1986. Shortly after arriving, he was one of the co-founders of the Nashua Pastoral Care Center, the official outreach arm of CGS. He was president of its Board of Directors for six years and has been treasurer since 1993. Odie has served on numerous Diocesan committees over the years, most recently on the Bishop’s Search Committee and the Response Team for Congregations in Crisis. For a sample of his sermons click here. Although divorced in 1988, Odie and his former wife cooperatively raised their three children, who are now adults. Odie remarried in 2001. The Rev. Alanna M. Van Antwerpen, Assistant Rector
alanna@cgsnashua.org  Alanna spent the greater part of her childhood in Hingham, Massachusetts. After graduation from St. Anselm College with a BA in Philosophy, Alanna was a Jesuit Volunteer (comparable to a domestic Peace Corps program) in Santa Rosa, California at a family homeless shelter. She then served as a staff member of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in the Southwest ministering with young adults and doing fund raising and development. Alanna worked in hospital fund raising at the California Pacific Medical Center, and university ministry at the University of San Francisco.Alanna earned her Master of Divinity from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley and a Certificate in Anglican Studies from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific. After graduation, she served as Children, Youth and Family Ministry Coordinator and Church Administrator at Holy Innocents Episcopal Church in San Francisco. As part of her vocational formation she interned at Phoebe Home (a skilled nursing facility) in Allentown, Pennsylvania for her clinical pastoral education. Alanna joined CGS in July 2010 and was ordained a priest on the Feast of the Epiphany, 2011 by Bishop V. Gene Robinson on behalf of Bishop Marc Andrus of the Diocese of California. For a sample of her sermons click here. The Rev. Canon Charles LaFond, Priest Associate
Charles began his ministry at Good Shepherd in September 2006. Raised in Montreal, he graduated from the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee and served as a missionary teacher in Cap Hatien, Haiti. Before attending the Virginia Theological Seminary, Charles was corporate vice-president of the YMCA of Greater Richmond.
Ordained in 2001, he served as Associate Rector of the Church of Our Savior in Charlottesville, Virginia and spent three years as a monk with the Society of St. John the Evangelist, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Charles works full time as Canon for Congregation and Stewardship Development for the Diocese of New Hampshire. He has been a Master Potter for 25 years. For a sample of his sermons click here. Our StaffLaurie Ascani, Parish Administrator
Chaim Burstein, Bellringers® Director
Chaim joined the CGS Staff January 2011 continuing the great tradition of the CGS Bellringers.
Marcie Byrd, Youth Ministry
Patrick Hagan, Organist and Choirmaster
Jill Rosier, Sunday School Coordinator
Andria Sousa, Communications Secretary
Andria is a new resident to New Hampshire, moving here with her family in 2011. Originally from Massachusetts, she was raised in New Jersey after her family relocated when she was a small child. Andria returned to Mass. after graduating high school to pursue a degree in writing, literature and publishing at Emerson College. Loving Boston so much she decided to stay and once again returned to Emerson to receive her Master’s Degree in visual media arts. Andria is a diehard Red Sox and Bruins fan, even though she was raised in Jersey. Andria also does freelance writing and blogging.
John Townsend, Verger
Nashua Pastoral Care Center
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