103 1st Street, Riverhead, New York 11901, United States
Our Pastor
I am the Rev. Lorraine De Armitt, interim pastor of FCCR as of October 1. Let me tell you a little about myself. I am a second-career clergy. My first career was as a Clinical Social Worker. After a few years working in a small mental health clinic on the East End, I went into private practice where I treated a wide variety of people. I loved that work.
After 25 years, I went to seminary and was ordained within the United Methodist Church. I served churches on the East End, and then Nassau County before retirement. I also loved that work, maybe preaching most of all. During retirement I have frequently preached at a variety of churches on the East End and throughout Suffolk County, and served for several years as President of the Riverhead Clergy Council, offering support to colleagues wherever I can.
My husband and I have been married 56 years and have two daughters and three grandchildren, two in college and the youngest in high school. I look forward to stepping out of retirement and offering worship services and programs that continue to nurture that faith of the FCCR congregation and to support all the programs you offer to the community. I hope you will join us in this most important time in the life of the congregation, the bridge between the past and the future known as yet only to our Creator
