Staff

Meet Our Staff

Melanie (Mel) Smith

Melanie (Mel) Smith

Pastor

I grew up in Spokane Washington where I went to Whitworth University and studied religion. After graduation I moved to San Ramon CA to serve as Director of Youth Ministries. It was during my time there, working with students and their families, that I started to sense a call to ordained ministry. I returned to…

Hannah Peters

Hannah Peters

Director of Children and Youth

It was a rainbow, Hannah Peters says, that led her to Trinity. “I didn’t think I wanted to come to another Presbyterian church,” says Hannah, who had spent seven years working with children at Webster Groves Presbyterian Church.  “I was looking for a change. But then my husband was searching online and the first thing we saw was…

Janelle Pierce

Janelle Pierce

Interim Director of Music

Janelle Pierce has been at Trinity Presbyterian Church for the past five years working as the Alto Section Leader in the church choir and singing as a soloist for services. She is a classically trained singer who earned her Bachelor of Art’s Degree from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, TX. As a performer, mezzo-soprano…

Tina Sayers

Tina Sayers

Office Administrator

Tina grew up in the Presbyterian Church, as the daughter of Pastor Barbara Haddon.  Church has always been her second home, and is where her love of music (and specifically singing) was born and raised. A classically trained soprano, Tina attended college at the University of Redlands, in California, and did her Masters degree in…

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