Staff Spotlight
Teacher / Staff Spotlight
Stephanie Martinka
Teacher / Staff Spotlight
Today we highlight our fabulous Toddler class aide, Miss Julia. We were blessed to add Julia to our team this spring as our Toddler class began to grow with happy, new babies. Mrs. Brenda and Miss Julia do an art project every single day at MDO and Julia loves to do art with the babies! Julia is a 2016 graduate of Taylor High School and currently attends Austin Community College. She hopes to teach Pre-K or Kindergarten with a specialization in deaf education. She has worked in the nursery for the past six years right here at First United Methodist and has been a member of FUMC for the past seven years. We are so blessed that Julia joined our team! Thank you, Julia, for loving our sweet babies and toddlers at FUMC!
Teacher / Staff Spotlight
Two Year Old Class Aide
This week we feature our magnificent aide, Catharena (Miss Cat). We were blessed to have this wonderful lady join our team this November and we’re not sure how we ever survived without her! She and Mrs. Lisa make a great team as they teach God’s Word to our friends in the Two year old class. Mrs. Cat has worked with children many years, including teaching the two year old class previously, right here at FUMC several years ago for two school years. She worked for six years in Hearne ISD in the Behavioral Department for the district’s elementary schools, and has worked caring for the elderly for the past eight years. She and her husband, Lance, who is a teacher at Taylor Middle School, have been married 22 years and they attend Hutto Lutheran Church, where Cat has been a Sunday School teacher for many years. They have two daughters, one finishing her first year of college and one in fifth grade. We are so very happy that Cat chose to become part of our family at FUMC! She is such a blessing to the children, families, and teachers here and we love her dearly! Thank you, Mrs. Cat, for making our days so much brighter!
Teacher / Staff Spotlight
Our wonderful Miss Brenda is such a special blessing to our school! She loves the little friends in her class and is always prepared with the best activities to meet the individual needs of each child in the toddler class. Brenda was born and lived in Austin most of her life, but she now lives in Elgin with her daughter, Alyssa, who she adopted at the age of two. Brenda was a foster mom to 25 children during her eleven years as a foster parent with the State of Texas. Before becoming the Toddler teacher here at FUMC, Brenda worked for the University of Texas Utilities and retired after 35 years. Brenda has also taught Sunday School for 35 years and is a member of Grace Community Baptist Church in Elgin. Brenda is a hard worker, and a dedicated, patient, and loving teacher. Thank you, Miss Brenda for all the love you share with our youngest friends at FUMC!
Teacher / Staff Spotlight
Teacher / Staff Spotlight
Teacher/Staff Spotlight
Debbie Grimm
For the next several weeks we would like to share a little with you about each of our wonderful teachers. This week we feature our awesome PreK teacher, Debbie Grimm. Debbie retired from teaching 2nd, 3rd,and 4th grade for Taylor ISD after 31 years. This is her sixth year teaching PreK here at FUMC. Debbie and her husband, Teddy, have three children and four grandchildren. Debbie serves as the organist and pianist at Taylor Brethren Church and dedicates much of her time every year to the Taylor Relay for Life team. Thank you, Debbie, for everything you do every week to prepare our PreK class for Kindergarten and to share God’s love with us!
