Rev. Sage grew up in Southern Maine, attending Scarborough Schools before leaving for college at Urbana University in Ohio. Sage's call to ministry came while studying at Urbana where Sage spent many hours reading Swedenborg in the school's library. Sage entered seminary at the the Pacific School of Religion where she received her M. Div. and Certificate of Swedenborgian Studies from the newly formed Swedenborgian House of Studies. She was then ordained into the ministry of the Swedenborgian Church in June 2005. Sage began her ministry in San Francisco, California where she completed a year long residency as a hospital chaplain at the California Pacific Medical Center.

Sage then took on a new challenge in accepting the call to become the first pastor of the Swedenborgian Church's newly formed online church community, www.SwedenborgianCommunity.org. This outreach effort of the denomination provides spiritual inspiration and connections between geographically isolated Swedenborgians around the country and world.

Feeling the pull to move back East and to begin work in parish ministry, Sage accepted a call to serve the Wilmington, Delaware Church of the Holy City in January 2007 as an Assistant Minister while the congregation celebrated their 150th year. Along with the Rev. Randall Laakko, Sage organized special celebrations throughout the year. Sage spent a wonderful year with this community reflecting on and celebrating their long history of ministry in the Mid-Atlantic region.

After this celebration year concluded the Lord prepared a way for Sage to return to her home state of Maine where she was hired to work fulltime for Allegiance Hospice of Southern Maine (now SolAmor Hospice). Sage comes to serve our church in Fryeburg from this special end of life ministry, and continues per diem work with hospice patients around Maine while serving the Fryeburg New Church.

Rev. Sage is so excited to make the Fryeburg New Church her first solo pastorate and to make Fryeburg Maine her new home. Please stop by and see her, either during her office hours Tue.- Fri 8-noon or by appointment. She can be reached at (207)935-3413 and at pastor@fryeburgnewchurch.org. You may also follow her blog, Sage's Reflections.