Rev. Terrilisa Durham Bauknight has served as Assistant Pastor at Centenary United Methodist Church since 2003. As Assistant Pastor, she is a regular participant in Sunday Worship, and also serves as a teacher in the Adult Education Class. She is also active in Women’s Ministry, the Centenary Book Club, the Higher Education Ministry Team, Youth Ministry and participates on a number of committees.

While she has served as Assistant Pastor since 2003, Pastor Bauknight’s relationship with CUMC reaches back to 1997. At the time, she served as Pastor of the Bethel Mission A.M.E. Church, which came to worship in CUMC’s Chapel due to their parish being sold.  Pastor Bauknight is an ordained minister of the A.M.E. church, having received her Elder’s Orders in 1995. She presently serves Centenary in a voluntary capacity.

Pastor Bauknight is the fourth and youngest child of Rev. Paul D. and Lois P. (Durham) Bauknight, and was born and raised in Cranford, N.J.  She received her undergraduate degree from Thiel College (Greenville, PA) where she had a double major in sociology and religion, and earned her Masters in Counseling from Slippery Rock University. Pastor Bauknight attended Drew University, and Princeton Theological Seminary, before receiving her Master’s of Divinity from New York Theological Seminary. She is also a certified teacher of Special Education (K-12), as well as middle school and high school social studies and elementary education (K-5). She will begin her 7^th year as a teacher in the Essex County Vocational Schools in 2010.

Married to Reginald G. Harmon, Pastor Bauknight is the mother of two daughters, Maria P. Crecca and Shaina N. Harmon, and also the proud grandmother of Kyle Brandon and Nikko Douglass.  She enjoys reading, cooking, and writing poetry in her free time. She looks forward to the day when she can open a Christian Supper Club and a Scripture Tea Room in the future.

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