Staff of BPC
Commissioned Local Pastor, Moderator of Session
William Watkins holds a M.Div. degree from The General Theological Seminary in New York, with additional studies undertaken at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Charlotte, and a B.A. in Communication Arts from Rhodes College. He is an ordained ruling elder and serves Bethpage as a Commissioned Local Pastor as he completes the requirements for full ordination in the PCUSA. Bill is a commissioner from the Charlotte Presbytery to the 224th General Assembly. He also served on the Session of Amity Presbyterian Church as Clerk of Session for many years. In addition to work in urban church settings in New York City, he served for several years as a chaplain for AIDS patients in a New York hospital system and with HIV-positive homeless and I.V. drug abusers for an interfaith project of a social services agency in New York. Bill is also the chair of The Earl Wentz and William Watkins Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that creates and produces innovative educational initiatives in music and the performing arts, with a focus on offering programming to underserved populations. A former performing arts professional in New York, he was also produced or co-produced theatre and live performance events, including the 2008 Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre, Off-Broadway’s musical Thrill Me, and cabaret revue performances in New York and the Philadelphia area. For network television, he has produced news pieces broadcast nationally on CBS. As a performer he has appeared on stages in New York and regionally as an actor and singer, including seven productions of the American Composer Series, and on television’s Saturday Night Live.
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Business Administrator
Donna Moore has been with BPC since September, 1995. She coordinates the church calendar, publishes our weekly newsletter, The Beth Page, keeps the official membership records and Sessional Minutes, maintains our web site and handles our financial records and reports.
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Director of Music
Sterling Savage grew up in a small Methodist church in Rocky Mount, N.C. Because her grandmother was the church's organist and her grandfather was a piano tuner, she was destined to study piano. She studied piano under Mrs. Bette Shuler for twelve years and began her career as a church musician playing for Sunday School assembly and night services at the age of twelve. After studying organ in her small town, she went on to play for that same church for fifteen more years. St. Paul United Methodist was her heart. When she finally moved to Charlotte in 1990, she became a substitute organist with the Charlotte chapter of the American Guild of Organists. She played for many Charlotte Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Lutheran, and even an Anglican church. Membership in the AGO even carried her to Gastonia, Concord, and eventually, to us. Sterling is a member of Myers Park United Methodist Church where she is actively involved in local missions. She runs the D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything And Read) program during Freedom School which her church sponsors every summer at Sedgefield Elementary. That program provides one hundred students a month of learning, activities, and comraderie with interns and volunteers each day. During the school year, she and two other lay leaders run a volunteer reading program called For The Love of Reading at Sedgefield Elementary which provides approximately twenty second graders with dedicated one-on-one reading buddies two days a week from October thru April. this is their fourth year of serving these children. She also attends Bible study classes each year. The latest one is entitled "Spiritual Discernment." All of this is possible because she is a happily retired middle school teacher who taught in Charlotte Mecklenburg schools for almost twenty-five years. She taught English/Language Arts and French. Nowadays, she lives in South Charlotte. She lives with David Savage and Borden, a very spoiled mini schnauzer.
William Watkins holds a M.Div. degree from The General Theological Seminary in New York, with additional studies undertaken at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Charlotte, and a B.A. in Communication Arts from Rhodes College. He is an ordained ruling elder and serves Bethpage as a Commissioned Local Pastor as he completes the requirements for full ordination in the PCUSA. Bill is a commissioner from the Charlotte Presbytery to the 224th General Assembly. He also served on the Session of Amity Presbyterian Church as Clerk of Session for many years. In addition to work in urban church settings in New York City, he served for several years as a chaplain for AIDS patients in a New York hospital system and with HIV-positive homeless and I.V. drug abusers for an interfaith project of a social services agency in New York. Bill is also the chair of The Earl Wentz and William Watkins Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that creates and produces innovative educational initiatives in music and the performing arts, with a focus on offering programming to underserved populations. A former performing arts professional in New York, he was also produced or co-produced theatre and live performance events, including the 2008 Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre, Off-Broadway’s musical Thrill Me, and cabaret revue performances in New York and the Philadelphia area. For network television, he has produced news pieces broadcast nationally on CBS. As a performer he has appeared on stages in New York and regionally as an actor and singer, including seven productions of the American Composer Series, and on television’s Saturday Night Live.
e-mail Bill
Business Administrator
Donna Moore has been with BPC since September, 1995. She coordinates the church calendar, publishes our weekly newsletter, The Beth Page, keeps the official membership records and Sessional Minutes, maintains our web site and handles our financial records and reports.
e-mail Donna
Director of Music
Sterling Savage grew up in a small Methodist church in Rocky Mount, N.C. Because her grandmother was the church's organist and her grandfather was a piano tuner, she was destined to study piano. She studied piano under Mrs. Bette Shuler for twelve years and began her career as a church musician playing for Sunday School assembly and night services at the age of twelve. After studying organ in her small town, she went on to play for that same church for fifteen more years. St. Paul United Methodist was her heart. When she finally moved to Charlotte in 1990, she became a substitute organist with the Charlotte chapter of the American Guild of Organists. She played for many Charlotte Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Lutheran, and even an Anglican church. Membership in the AGO even carried her to Gastonia, Concord, and eventually, to us. Sterling is a member of Myers Park United Methodist Church where she is actively involved in local missions. She runs the D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything And Read) program during Freedom School which her church sponsors every summer at Sedgefield Elementary. That program provides one hundred students a month of learning, activities, and comraderie with interns and volunteers each day. During the school year, she and two other lay leaders run a volunteer reading program called For The Love of Reading at Sedgefield Elementary which provides approximately twenty second graders with dedicated one-on-one reading buddies two days a week from October thru April. this is their fourth year of serving these children. She also attends Bible study classes each year. The latest one is entitled "Spiritual Discernment." All of this is possible because she is a happily retired middle school teacher who taught in Charlotte Mecklenburg schools for almost twenty-five years. She taught English/Language Arts and French. Nowadays, she lives in South Charlotte. She lives with David Savage and Borden, a very spoiled mini schnauzer.
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