Sue Ritter
Senior’s Ministry & Alpha Coordinator
sue@firstpresvisalia.org

Sue was raised with her brother and sister in Pittsburgh, PA, and went to school at Mary Washington, Penn State, earning a B.A. in Fine Arts. She eventually moved to Denver, CO, and married her husband Jim. Sue and Jim have 5 children and 5 grandchildren. All but one child now lives in California. Prior to moving recently to California, they were on the mission field in Nigeria for six years and the inner city of Denver for nine. Sue and Jim managed to travel in Europe and Africa when returning to the U.S. for furlough times. Sue received a Master’s in Social Work at Denver University after her children were in college and she is currently finishing a Commissioned Lay Pastor Diploma at the Mennonite Brethren Seminary in Fresno, CA. Sue’s interests have been design, spiritual formation, Spanish and film. She has found joy here at First Pres and especially involvement in the Alpha course.

Her life verse is Phil. 3:13: I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do; Forgetting what is behind and striving toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

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