Elaine Pratt is a Certified Lay Minister serving Newmarket Community Church. In this role, she participates in strategic worship planning including sermon series theme development, writing the service liturgy and prayers, writing daily devotions on that week’s sermon theme and scripture, recruiting/training liturgists, and periodically leading worship/preaching. She also co-develops/co-leads the annual women’s retreat, provides pastoral care, facilitates small groups where needed, and serves on the Executive Council.

She is also on the faculty of www.beadisciple.com where she teaches online courses in the Certified Lay Ministry program and other topics of spiritual development. And as the proud mother of a LGBTQIA+ child, she is a fierce advocate of affirming inclusion in the church.

Professionally, she is a retired college professor who was program director of and taught in the graduate program in pharmaceutical manufacturing and engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Stevens, Elaine spent many years in the pharmaceutical industry as a corporate middle manager and an independent industry consultant.