OUR STAFF
OUR PASTOR:
REV. JILL E. COLLEY ROBINSON
Rev. Jill Colley Robinson has served as a licensed local pastor since 1999, and an ordained elder of the United Methodist since 2003. She grew up in Pennsylvania and holds degrees from Middlebury College, and Boston University School of Theology. Pastor Jill’s extensive work experience includes service in New Hampshire and Vermont as local church pastor, District Superintendent of the Green Mountain District, and Dean of the New England Annual Conference Cabinet. She enriches the churches she serves with her musical skills and gifts. Pastor Jill makes her home in Weybridge, with her husband John-Eric and children, Chelsea and Isaiah.
The pastor takes sabbath on Fridays. If you would like to speak with her privately or would like a visit Saturday-Thursday, she can be reached by emailing
Rev. Colley Robinson is serving as pastor of the new Milk and Honey Cooperative Parish, which includes the United Methodist Churches of North Ferrisburg, Middlebury, and East Middlebury.
OUR ORGANIST:
DR. KEVIN PARIZO
Dr. Kevin Parizo, a Middlebury native, is a Liturgical Musician and serves as a conduit striving to bring people closer to Christ. He has played the pipe organ for the past fifty years at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Middlebury and plays at the UMC as well. He began sharing the organ duties with his teacher Ms. Burns starting in his freshman year of high school at MUHS, went on to the Conservatory of Music in Montreal, and obtained a degree in Musical Performance, a Master's degree in Music Performance from the University of Massachusetts- Amherst, and his Doctorate degree in Sacred Music and Organ from Concordia University of Montreal. Dr. Parizo has earned accolades and been named Artist of the Year by the American Guild of Organists.
For more information about our Church Organ, click HERE.
GUEST PASTOR:
REV. DR. TASI PERKINS
Rev. Dr. Tasi Perkins (he/him) has been under ministerial appointment by the Virginia Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church since 2005, where he was ordained an elder in 2010. A graduate of Cornell University and Duke Divinity School, he served three congregations in central Virginia before returning to academic life. He began his doctorate in theology at Boston University before transferring to Georgetown University, from which he received his PhD in 2022. He then returned to one of his original passions, hospital chaplaincy. Recently he moved to Leicester, Vermont, to be close to his parents, Chree and Doug. From Leicester, Tasi has offered ministry in pulpit and table supply in local United Methodist churches. In that capacity, he has become connected to the worship life at Middlebury UMC, where he has been delighted to be received warmly on Sundays when he has been called upon to preach and participate in the congregation's worship life. Tasi loves dogs.