TRISHA SENTERFITT, DIRECTOR

Dr. Trisha Senterfitt is Executive Director of The Craddock Center.  She comes to the Center after serving as Associate Pastor of Care Ministry at First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta for fourteen years.  During this time Trisha created multiple ministries including Senior Adults, Parish Nursing, Labyrinth, and many support groups.  She also started the Samaritan Counseling Center at the church, which, under her leadership, has grown into a program staffed by a director and eleven counselors, including psychiatrists, psychologists, pastoral counselors, social workers and addiction therapists. 

Having grown up in the home of a Presbyterian pastor in which education and social mission were highly valued, she sensed a call to ministry while working with Peachtree Hospice in 1988.  Her education has included studying German at the University of Freiburg, earning a B.A. in German from Eckerd College and earning her Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur.  She enjoys retreat leadership, spiritual direction, and leading labyrinth workshops, and she is a certified Grief Recovery Specialist. 

Trisha and her husband, Jack, have three grown children, Shelley, Todd, and Jeremy, a daughter-in-law, Karen, and a three year old grandson, John.  After living thirty-three years in Atlanta, they will be moving to Cherry Log in September.  Trisha and Jack have owned a cabin in Morganton since 2004, where they have enjoyed Sabbath time most Fridays and Saturdays before returning to Atlanta for church on Sunday.

Trisha grew up in rural East Tennessee.  Since her first career was as a high school teacher, she is excited about the educational components of The Craddock Center.  As a public school advocate all the years she has lived in Atlanta and as a pastor, she has a keen interest in literacy for children and adults as well as English as a second language.  Having grown up valuing stories, bluegrass, folk, gospel and Celtic music, mountain crafts, and Cherokee heritage, she heartily embraces the Center's mission to preserve and share the Southern Appalachian region's rich heritage. 

FRED CRADDOCK,  DIRECTOR EMERITUS

TAMMY BLAIR, OFFICE MANAGER
Tammy Blair is a very talented individual whom all of you know as the Office Manager and Story Express Coordinator for The Craddock Center. She wears many hats as she communicates with visitors, receives and gives furniture, offers assistance to clients, all the while performing daily accounting and clerical tasks. She is one of those rare individuals who is full of compassion and always has time to help others. She has proven over the six years she has been office manager at the Craddock Center there is no end to the number of hats she can successfully wear.

Outside the office Tammy wears a number of other hats equally well as wife, mother of a grown son and daughter, attentive daughter to her own parents, active leader in the church, friend to many and faithful family member to her many kinfolk.