Deborah Murray, an ordained minister within the United Church of Canada for the past 24 years, is a graduate of Emmanuel College (U of T) and Acadia University. Her ministry experience has taken her from service in an isolated native community in Northern Manitoba to urban multi-staff churches to rural multi-point pastoral charges. She is currently the minister of a three-point rural pastoral charge, north of Owen Sound in Toronto Conference of the United Church of Canada; including a congregation that has been voted one of the 10 liveliest and most faithful congregations of the conference.