Rebecca Orchard
Children’s Director
rebecca@firstpresvisalia.org

Rebecca Was born and raised in the small Central Valley town of Easton, CA.  She is a 4th generation member of Easton Presbyterian Church. Rebecca earnedher Bachelor's Degree in Child Development at California State University, Fresno as a Rodman Scholar.  During that time, she was on leadership with Intervarsity Christian Fellowship and spent her first  couple of summers on staff at Calvin Crest (1993 and 1994).  At the end of 1994, Rebecca attended the Urban Missions conference where she found the Celebrant Singers.  It became  a joke that she had to travel to illinois to find out  about a ministry 45 minutes from her home! One of the greatest gifts God gave her was the opportunity to travel on two tours with the Celebrant Singers (1995 Ireland Team and 1996 Central America Team).   It was during the summer tour  of 1996the she met her husband Jason, from Puyallup/Tacoma, WA,  and they were married

December of 1997.  After earning her certification as a Child Life Specialist, She worked for 5 years at Valley Children's Hospital before taking time off tostay home with her daughter, Brenna born May 2004. Rebecca loves spending time with her family, reading, singing and listening to music, hiking and traveling.

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