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BettyLee Payne Leader, The Alpha Program |
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BettyLee Payne is a life-long Episcopalian who grew up singing in church choirs throughout childhood and teen years. A tenth generation American Anglican, she is founder and president of AAC-KY, and was recently elected to the American Anglican Council board of directors. She is in leadership in Anglican Communion Network for Kentucky and various prayer ministries. As a member of St. Francis in the Fields, Louisville, KY, she is a Lay Eucharistic Minister, lay director of eight Alpha and post Alpha courses, part of the leadership team for Tuesday Bible Study, TBS small group leader, and a former vestry member. She is core leader of Community Bible Study- Louisville; a counselor for the Billy Graham Louisville Crusade; former Alumnae Board member, St. Catherine's School, Richmond, VA; former member Kentucky Country Day School Board of Directors and active KCDS volunteer for 16 years including founding of the school book store; and docent at the JB Speed Art Museum for ten years. She served for 12 years in the Diocese of KY as Chairman of the Woodcock Foundation Board of Trustees, granting scholarships to worthy and needy students in the diocese for college education. BettyLee has a college education in fine arts and was an active exhibiting artist for ten years (before three children) and a Sunday School teacher for 12 years. By God's grace, she has been the wife of Stephen for 40 years and is mother of three grown and married children, two sons and a daughter and their spouses, and four grandsons, two in Charlotte, NC, and two in Los Angeles, CA. Betty was blessed by God with her late parents who modeled God's standard for marriage and life to their four children and many grandchildren and great grandchildren during their 67 years of marriage, all of which were nourished by their strong faith in Jesus Christ in the Episcopal Church. |
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