Trinity Staff

Trinity Staff: (left to right) Greg Gardner, VU Divinity School Intern; Charlie Bundy, Facilities Manager; Heidi Hudnut-Beumler, Pastor; Valerie Oyen-Larson, Music Director; Scott Baker, Ministry Associate; Leigh Bonner, VU Divinity School Intern; Linda Rogers, Office Manager

Pastor: Reverend Heidi Hudnut-Beumler
The Reverend Heidi Hudnut-Beumler has served as pastor at Trinity since 2005.

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.”

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. She has been a faculty member at numerous universities and 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.

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.


Office Manager: Linda Rogers

Linda joined the staff in January 2008. She has experience in office management, hospice volunteer management and coordinating senior community activities. She enjoys the outdoors, photography, music, art and sharing time with family and friends.

 

Parish Associates
Rev. Dr. James Hudnut-Beumler
Rev. Janet Salyer
Rev. Gene TeSelle

Ministry Associate
Scott Baker

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Vanderbilt Divinity School Interns

Leigh Bonner
Leigh Bonner began worshipping at Trinity last year when she began the Masters of Divinity program at Vanderbilt. She is a graduate of Rhodes College, and upon graduation served as a PCUSA Young Adult Volunteer in Ghana. She is preparing for ordained ministry and is under the care of the Presbytery of the Mid-South. Leigh comes to us from Memphis.

Greg Gardner
Greg is a first-year student at Vanderbilt Divinity School, coming out of a sixteen-year career in banking. He is an elder at Hillsboro Presbyterian. Greg attended Lambuth University and grew up in Sharon, Tennessee. He has served in a wide range of volunteer ministries in Nashville and is looking forward to exploring his call to ministry and serving with us at Trinity.