Rev. Victoria Allen
Pastor

In 2010, Pastor Vicky began her first pastoral appointment in
Lower Bucks County. She quickly became a valued member of the entire community serving as the director of the Lester Bahrt Food Pantry, Executive Director of the LYFT Community Prevention Coalition, Director of the Awareness Teen Advisory Group aka ATAG, Pastor of First UMC and actively engaged in the Character Education efforts of the Pennsbury School District.

During her time in this community, she received multiple accolades through various awards of recognition from United Way, Pennsbury Partners and a resolution expressing great appreciation for her work from the Pennsbury School District. She worked in collaboration with many community leaders and organizations, too numerous to list!

Pastor Vicky loves God and is committed to spreading God’s love. She trusts God and often quotes Romans 8:28 saying, “All things work together for the good of those who love the Lord and are called according to His purpose.”  She left a successful twenty-year career in Computer Programming in year 2002 to follow God’s call.

After enrolling at Montgomery County Community College, she graduated Magna Cum Laude with an Associates in Secondary Education, 2004. With “High Honors,” she went on to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Psychology and Organized Behavior from Albright College’s degree completion program in 2006. Finally, in 2010 with an accumulated GPA of 3.09, she received a Master of Divinity Degree from Princeton Theological Seminary and was commissioned for ordination in 2010. She was ordained by Bishop Peggy Johnson in 2012.

Raised in a Christian home in Philadelphia, Pastor Vicky’s home church was the former Trinity Chelten United Methodist Church where she gained much recognition for her ministry to youth and young adults in and out of the church. In addition to her one daughter, Pastor Vicky took in and cared for many other children through foster care, court appointed custody, parental right relinquishment and other arrangements. She is the proud grandmother of four: Taya (22), Xavier (19), Devon (15), and Ryan (5).

Pastor Vicky loves to laugh and have fun! She likes fun competition, enjoys music, movies and spending time with good friends! She likes to joke around and engage in playfulness! She is excited to see how God will continue to bless and grow the two congregations that she serves.

Contact: 267-912-1074 / pastorvicky01@yahoo.com

Cris Frisco
Director of Music

Cris Frisco is a collaborative musician equally at home in the worlds of classical and popular music. In recent seasons, he has been conductor or pianist for productions on Broadway, at the Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Town Hall, Santa Fe Opera, McCarter Theatre Center, Walnut Street Theater, Opera Delaware, Opera Birmingham, Opera Memphis, Kentucky Opera, Opera Fayetteville, The Princeton Festival, The Theatre Outlet, Passage Theater, and the Bucks County Playhouse.  From 2021-2023 he was the Director of Music and Director of the Handorf Company Artist Program at Opera Memphis. 

A committed educator for the next generation of artists, he is the Music Director of Mannes Opera and Assistant Professor of Music at Mannes and has served on the faculty of Westminster Choir College, Rutgers University, City University of New York, the New School for Drama, the Castleton Festival, the Mostly Modern Festival, Finger Lakes Opera, Queens Summer Vocal Institute, and Westminster’s CoOPERAtive.

Lay Leadership:

Leadership Board

 Finance Committee

Board of Trustees

Staff-Pastor Relations Committee

Worship Committee

We are grateful for the men and women that God has raised up in service to our church in their leadership roles, as well as in servant leadership as Ushers, Scripture Readers, Counters, Various event committee heads and members, and the leaders of our Children's Sunday School ministry, United Methodist Women and United Methodist Men groups.

These lay leaders serve our church faithfully and are an integral part of the day to day functioning of the church building and congregation. May God receive be praised through their tireless efforts.

  Melodie Wolfe

  Office Administrator

  Melodie is the mother of two college students and a cat.  She

  lives in Warminster, PA and enjoys worshiping the Lord in a

  wide varieties of ways and contexts (Eccl. 9:10, Col. 3:17).   

  She grew up in a Christian home and went to Christian

  Elementary and Middle school. She asked Christ into her 

  heart at age 5, and requested to be baptized at age 6.

  She has actively attended and participated in church services, Bible studies, sunday school and other ministries across a variety of denominations and socio-economic classes. She lives passionately guided by her main life verse, Colossians 3:23-24: "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving."