Trinity Staff

Pastor:
Heidi Hudnut-Beumler

The Reverend Heidi Hudnut-Beumler (pronounced “Boymler”) was installed as designated pastor at Trinity on November 13, 2005, and installed as permanent pastor on February 10, 2008. Born in Albany, New York, to Connie and Bob Hudnut, she is the oldest of four children, and has two brothers and a sister.

She attended Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, followed by seminary at Union Theological Seminary in New York City (a fourth generation of her family there, and later fourth generation in ordained ministry in the Presbyterian church).

While at Union, Heidi met her husband, Jim, now Dean of Vanderbilt University Divinity School. The Hudnut-Beumlers have lived in Nashville since 2000. They have a daughter, Julia, and a son, Adam. Julia is at Dartmouth, and Adam is at the University School of Nashville.

Committed to urban ministry, Heidi Hudnut-Beumler has run an inner city summer camp and served in a storefront church in an impoverished section of Chicago. She has served the elderly poor in NYC, has been chaplain in the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, and has run an after school program for at risk children in Indianapolis. She has built spiritual and Christian Education programs from the ground up in churches from New York to Indiana to Georgia.
In her spare time, Heidi enjoys her family and friends, liturgical dance, hiking, biking, power walking, and reading. She loves vacationing in Colorado at her family’s cabin in Rocky Mountain National Park, which she considers “a little slice of heaven.”

Parish Associates:
James Hudnut-Beumler
Janet Salyer
Gene TeSelle

Director of Music & Organist/Pianist: Valerie Oyen-Larsen

Valerie Oyen-Larsen has conducted university/college, semi-professional, community, and various church choral ensembles. She is currently on the faculty of Trevecca Nazarene University, where she teaches voice. She is the founding director of the Clarksville Community Chorus. Previously, she has been on the music faculties of Austin Peay State University, Armstrong Atlantic State University in Georgia, Methodist College in North Carolina, and the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Texas. She has served on the staffs of several churches.

Here and abroad, mezzo-soprano Valerie Oyen-Larsen's musical experience runs the gamut of principle roles in regional oratorio, opera and musical theatre performances to vocal/piano entertainment for nightclubs, organizations and groups such as the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea. She has been a featured soloist with a number of orchestras in the southeast, including the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, and "fronts" jazz ensembles with equal ease. She is a frequent performer of solo recital repertoire and often sings recently-composed art songs. Audiences in Austria, Korea, and numerous U.S. states have heard her solo performances in various musical genres, and she has performed live on television and radio broadcasts as well as on recordings.

Valerie holds a Performance Diploma (summa cum laude) from the Franz-Schubert-Institute in Austria, where she trained with elite international performers. In addition to the M.M. (vocal performance), B.M. (vocal performance), and B.M. (music education)—all with honors—she is also a published composer and arranger. Valerie resides near Clarksville with her husband Dan. She has two children: daughter Briana, and son Brennan.

Vanderbilt Divinity School Intern: Devan Stahl

Devan Stahl was born in Denver, Colorado and lived in several different places throughout the US and Europe while growing up in a military family. She attended the University of Virginia, graduating magna cum laude in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religious Studies. Devan was then accepted into the graduate program at Vanderbilt Divinity School and is currently in her second year of a three-year Masters of Divinity degree. While attending the University of Virginia, Devan was an active member of a large PCA church in Charlottesville, Virginia where she was a youth leader, teaching a Bible Study class to teenage girls and assisting in other religious events and activities. Devan is excited to be a part of the PC(USA) church and is looking forward to gaining a better under-standing of her ministry goals through her church activities. Devan has one sister, Darian 19, who is attending Indiana University. She enjoys hiking, reading, and musical theater.

On February 10, 2008, Trinity joyously celebrated the installation of the Reverend Heidi Hudnut-Beumler as our permanent pastor. See Elder David Carlton's photos of the service of installation.