Susan is the Music Minister at CIC. Her involvement with leading music in church began in 8th grade when she was asked to follow her older sister as the organist for St. John’s Lutheran church in rural Westby, Montana. For the next four years she honed her skills on good ol’ Lutheran hymns until leaving home to pursue a music degree at Montana State University in Bozeman. Susan began serving the congregation of Community in Christ as a music volunteer in 1992, and joined the staff ten years later in 2002.

Susan is also a music teacher, having taught at schools in Montana and for the Department of Defense Dependents Schools at Ramstein AFB in Germany. During her 8-year stay in Germany she met and married Tom, opened a private music studio, began raising and showing Bernese Mountain Dogs and had a baby, daughter Sara. While in Germany Susan also continued her study of classical voice and was active with several choirs and theaters as well as serving as the assistant conductor for the Rheinland Pfaltz International Choir. Her favorite theatrical role was singing “the mother” in 3 different productions of Menotti’s “Amahl and the Night Visitors.”