Celise Stephenson
Database Manager & Parish Records
Celise was hired on All Hallow’s Eve 1994 as your Parish Secretary, at times known as the Registrar or Archivist. She records for posterity the activities of the church: baptisms, confirmations, marriages, transfers in and out, inactivations and reactivations, deaths and burials. She computes parish statistics, including numbers and types of services, and attendance. She also provides software training to the staff.
Celise attended Stephen F. Austin State University, known for its forestry and teaching programs. She never darkened the doors of those schools, but she did pass regularly through the computer science building due to its usefulness as a shortcut to the theater where she spent enough time to earn a degree. She enjoys reading, writing, and arithmetic. Her favorite childhood book is A Wrinkle in Time. She still maintains a firm belief that someday, perhaps on her last day, she will travel by Tesseract.