Nahant Village Church
An Open and Affirming Congregation
of the United Church of Christ
Sunday Worship 10:00 a.m
Rev Emily Kellar
Love kindness, do justice, walk humbly with God.”Micah 6:8
Meet Our Pastor
Rev. Emily J. Kellar is from Atlanta, Georgia and graduated from Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. There she met her future husband, David, a native of Duxbury. After living in both North and South Carolina, Rev. Emily, David and their three children moved to Duxbury in 2004, where they had spent many summers visiting David’s family. Their daughter Emma and her wife, Autumn live in Dedham and are both civil engineers. Emma and Autumn have a young son, Nathan. Rev. Emily and David’s older son, Edward, is a marine mechanic and lives in Duxbury. Their younger son, Ross and his wife, Meaghan live with their young son, Cadogan in Roslindale. Ross and Meaghan both work with Emily’s husband, David in Boston.
​Rev. Emily holds a Master of Divinity degree from Andover Newton Theological School. She is a member of the Jonathan Edwards Society, Andover Newton’s honors society. Rev. Emily is ordained in the United Church of Christ. She completed her Clinical Pastoral Education with Hebrew Senior Life in Roslindale, MA. She is a certified educator in the United Church of Christ, Southern New England Conference. She has served several terms on the Committees on Ministry of two different associations in the Southern New England Conference. Rev. Emily completed the Clergy Life and Leadership long term program at The Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation in Washington, D.C. She later became the Director of the Clergy Program for several years. Rev. Emily has served the Pilgrim Church of Duxbury, UCC and the Congregational Church of South Dartmouth, UCC. Rev. Emily serves on the board of Back Bay Mission, a ministry of the UCC in Biloxi, Mississippi.
Rev. Emily enjoys needlepointing, reading and walking her yellow labs, Deacon and Finn. She can be reached at nvcminister@gmail.com.
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Pastoral Care Services: For Pastoral Care needs please contact Rev Emily Kellar at nvcminister@gmail.com or call the church at 781-581-1202. For urgent Pastoral Care concerns, please reach out directly to Rev. Emily at 781 264 8339.