Rev. Margaret Lewis, D.Min, MBA 

Executive Director

Rev. Margaret E. Lewis is an ordained American Baptist minister who serves as pastor of First Baptist Church in Nashua, New Hampshire in addition to being the Center's executive director.  She worked nearly 11 years for The Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board of The American Baptist Churches (MMBB) in New York City.  Maggie was education director and served as an officer of MMBB in the role of corporate secretary. She also directed fundraising efforts through Heritage of Sharing.

She has extensive pastoral experience and served as minister of American Baptist and United Church of Christ congregations in Vermont and Connecticut.  She has maintained a strong commitment to ecumenism during her ministry and has achieved particular success in administration, financial development and fundraising.

Maggie earned a master of business administration degree from Cornell University in 2005. Her other degrees include a master of divinity from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, a bachelor of arts in religion and French from Eastern University and teaching certification from Keene State College.

Rev. Dr. Patricia Criste, D.Min., PhD 

Clinical Director

Information coming soon.

Rev. Douglas Wheeler, D.Min.

Senior Career Counselor
Rev. Dr. Douglas Wheeler earned a BA in Religion from Bates College and a M.Div. from Andover Newton Theological School. He was ordained for ministry by the Hartford Association (CT Conference), United Church of Christ in 1977. Dr. Wheeler completed his Doctor of Ministry degree in Pastoral Counseling, also at ANTS. He subsequently completed a post-doctoral externship at the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy. After serving as a parish minister for nine years, Dr. Wheeler worked as a pastoral psychotherapist in geriatric and pastoral counseling settings before beginning his work as a vocational counselor at the Center for Career Development and Ministry. He served in several interim pastorates and has taught conflict mediation and training workshops. Dr. Wheeler is a National Board Certified Counselor, a Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Massachusetts. He has been on staff at the Center for Career Development and Ministry since 1991.

Mrs. Jessica Harrington

 Office Administrator

Jessica began working as the Office Administrator at the Center for Career Development and Ministry in early 2009 after moving to the Boston area. She is connected to the American Baptist community and the Andover Newton Theological School community through her husband Brandon Harrington, who graduated in 2011 and will be ordained in 2012. She enjoys supporting the CCDMin in their work of ‘ministering to the ministers’. In her spare time she is a graduate student in the Intercultural Relations program at Lesley University in Cambridge. She also enjoys spending time with her growing family, who is expecting a new addition in May 2012!