Staff

Kristin Hoyer, Pastor

Pastor Kristin Hoyer was born in Columbus, Ohio, but grew up in Minnesota from 3rd grade – college.  She received a B.A. in Sociology/Anthropology and a Music Minor from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota.  She worked for four summers as a camp counselor and canoe guide at Camp Vermilion in Cook, Minnesota. It was there she met pastors who were authentic and where she began to think “maybe I could be a pastor.”  After college she tried to figure out what was she going to do with her life and every option included more school (which she really didn’t want to do.)  After two years of working various jobs she moved east and attended The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia and except for her internship in Detroit, MI, she did not move back to the Midwest.

Pastor Kristin spent 10 years as the Assistant Pastor at Christ Lutheran Church at the Inner Harbor of Baltimore with a focus on Youth Ministry.  She spent the next 12 years as the Pastor at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Westminster, Maryland.  She is excited and looking forward to where the Holy Spirit is leading the people of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Leesburg, VA!

Pastor Kristin has two amazing children (Sarah and Joseph) who attend The University of Maryland, College Park.  She has a dog named Mr. Beans who loves adventure as much as she does.  She loves the outdoors, hiking, paddling, CrossFit, running, mountains, and the beach!

Pastor Kristin hopes and prays everyone knows how much God loves them and hopes this is message people receive from her whether in church or meeting on the street.  We have an amazing God of love who cares for us and is with us throughout our lives in our greatest joys and in our deepest sorrows.

Nancy Fox, Director of Music & Family Ministries

Nancy Fox is a native of Northern Virginia.  From an early age, she had a passion for leading children. She started teaching Vacation Bible School and private flute lessons at age fourteen, and even before that, she organized neighborhood children into groups to participate in Vienna’s Halloween parade and other civic activities! 

After completing her degree in Music Education at Gettysburg College, Nancy travelled to the University of Georgia where she completed her Master’s degree in Music Education with an emphasis in Music Therapy.  Her internship in Music Therapy took her to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1980 Nancy returned to Northern Virginia and began her teaching career with Fairfax County Public Schools and at the same time joined the staff of Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Vienna.

After moving to Loudoun County, God worked in unexpected ways to bring Nancy to the staff at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, where she has spent over 25 years shaping the faith journeys of many children and adults.
Nancy continues to be passionate about her faith, teaching, children and music! In her free time she loves visiting with her two grown daughters, playing with her two grand dogs, watching the Washington Nationals and playing her flute.

Email: Nanc_Fox@yahoo.com

Terry Sisk, Organist, Choirmaster and Handbell Director

Terry Sisk serves as organist, choirmaster and handbell director. He is a native of Leesburg who has juggled three simultaneous careers for most of his life -- as the owner of a travel company for international music performance tours, an architectural space planner, and a church musician. The first two actually provided a respectable income. At age 14 he played organ for his first worship service and never looked back. No one ever paid him to play piano, but St. James Episcopal (Leesburg) paid him $75 in 1963. Life changing! Terry holds a degree with a double major in piano performance and German Literature, later studying organ in Germany. 2023 will mark 60 years of sacred musical service to Christian and Jewish congregations. As well, Terry has served on committees/boards of the Waterford and Hunt Country (Middleburg) concert series. He has performed as a singer, conductor, organist and accompanist throughout Europe, Australia and South America. Terry served as Dean of the American Guild of Organists during the time the AGO celebrated its hundredth anniversary in 1996 (NYC). Highlights of his career include twice conducting the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra , in 2011 and 2013. Terry can trace his Loudoun County Lutheran roots back to the 1760s, when his German ancestors left Philadelphia to settle in German Settlement (now Lovettsville). After a long hiatus from Lutheran worship (blame those Presbyterians and their fat checkbooks), Terry is most grateful to be reunited with his childhood faith.

Andrea Barron, Office Administrator

Andrea Barron is a graduate of James Madison University [BA, history, with a minor in music] and North Carolina State University [MA, public history].

Andrea comes to us with 12 years of experience as a church administrator and communicator, from an ELCA congregation in Maryland and a Presbyterian Church congregation in Virginia.  In her previous positions, Andrea did many of the things she was called to do and much more, especially in the areas of online media platforms, design, and management.

Andrea is a life-long Lutheran and trained Stephen Minister. She was trained in her younger years as a jazz pianist and flutist (which is how she met her husband, Sean, at college in the JMU Marching Royal Dukes). In her spare time, she trains in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

She currently makes her home in Charles Town, WV, with her family: husband, Sean, and her children Gabriel and Lucy.

Contact:  Office@holytrinityleesburg.org 

 

Marcia Merry

Marcia Merry, Organist Emerita

Marcia Merry has been given the title of Organist Emerita.  She faithfully served the congregation from the year 2000 until her retirement at the end of July, 2020.  She was instrumental in providing an opportunity to have a pipe organ in our sanctuary, a true blessing to all of us. She has been an influential presence that invited people to come and share their musical talents and live out their faith in Jesus Christ here at Holy Trinity. Yes, she has definitely been a minister of music. Because of her new title she will continue to be part of us!  She will stay with us to help arrange musical presentations with our gifted musicians in the years to come.