Staff Biographies
Meet the Staff of Church of the Holy Spirit
Pastor Clancy Nixon - Rector, Lead Pastor
Clancy grew up in a secular home and came to Christ as a teenager at Calvary
Camp in Conneaut, Ohio. However, he was not discipled at that time, and he walked away from Christ when he went to college. He spent nine years living a secular life until he came back to Christ at age 26. In 1992, while a layman and volunteer youth leader at Church of the Apostles in Fairfax, Clancy sensed that God was calling him to be a church planter. He continued to practice law while he attended Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria [Masters in Divinity, cum laude, 1998]. In 1998, he was ordained, and began to serve at Truro Church in Fairfax. Truro has a history of planting many churches, and its rector, Martyn Minns, continued that tradition. While there, Clancy ran the Alpha Course and newcomer programs. He began gathering a group of people from Truro and from other communities in 2000 to start the new church in 2001.
Why would anyone want to pastor a start-up church? "I have a heart for secular people, because I was one for so long. God’s love changed me. In Christ, I found my heart’s fulfillment, for which I had searched for so long. Through His Church, I found healing, true friends, and power for living. I also have a heart for discipling believers, since I was not discipled as a youth. Church is more than rules and traditions. The Church is a community of people who love God, love His ways, and love one another. Our people are talented, enjoyable and committed. This is great fun!”Clancy was born in 1957 and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He studied modern history and graduated cum laude from Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1980. He was an editor of the Law Review at University of California, Davis [J.D., 1983]. He practiced business and finance law in the Washington DC area for fifteen years. He was an associate at the Washington office of Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft, and senior counsel at Freddie Mac.
Clancy married Ginger in 1986, and they adopted Will and Sam as newborns in 1989 and 1992.
Email: clancy@minister.com
Ginger Nixon - Pastoral Associate
Ginger Nixon was born in a Christian home in Mobile, Alabama. She graduated from the University of South Carolina with a BA in English in 1975. She married Clancy in 1986. Before the birth of their sons, Will and Sam, she was a management consultant for Price Waterhouse. She was a full-time mom for 8 years. After the boys were in school full-time, she worked for Freddie Mac doing in-house project management. In the summer of 2000, Ginger left Freddie and joined Clancy in planting Church of the Holy Spirit.
Ginger’s personal mission statement is “encouraging others to become who God created them to be.” This includes teaching about Christ, showing how to apply the Bible to their lives, praying for people and walking alongside them during times of joy or trial. Nice for Ginger, the heart of her mission is exactly what she does at Church of the Holy Spirit.
Her church duties include pastoral calls, leading the prayer chain, praying with individuals, hosting the church office, and special events. She leads our Listening Class and Marriage Course Teams.Email: ginger.nixon@minister.com
Nathaniel Davis - Director of Music Ministry
Nathaniel was born and raised in Northern Virginia, growing up in Sterling. He is a multi-instrumentalist, playing drums, multi-percussion, guitar, bass, as well as singing and has been an area professional performer and private music teacher since 1999. This has involved him in a wide variety of musical acts and styles, including many local churches’ music ministries. Nathaniel has performed, lead praise bands, and directed youth bands.
After playing for two years in our praise band, Nathaniel has been hired as Director of Music Ministry in June of 2007. “I am excited to be a part of what God is doing in this church and the impact to the area He is leading them to make. My vision is to help bring powerful worship that is a worthy offering to the Lord and strengthens and emboldens His people to do His work; to see the music ministry, this church, and His Kingdom grow in numbers and power.”
Nathaniel married Angela, an artist also local to the area, in 2003. He says, “Nothing has made my life richer than knowing Christ and being with Angela. I adore my wife.” In Tae Kwon Do (Korean martial art) he is a black belt instructor and three time VA state gold medalist. He is a hockey fan (“Go Caps!!”) and plays ice hockey in an adult rec. league. He also loves sushi, Thai food, film/cinema, and his three cats.
Email: davis.drums@yahoo.com
Jan Fearing - Children's Minister
Jan leads the Children's Ministry Team, making sure that everything and everyone is ready for worship. At Church of the Holy Spirit, our priorities for the children are that they:
- come to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior;
- grace each other with Christian fellowship; and
- bring other children to God.
Jan was born in 1962 of World War II generation parents in Tucson, Arizona. After graduating from high school in 1980, she decided to try the school of hard knocks instead of entering right into college. For several years she worked in restaurants, traveled, flew airplanes, and was an ultra-light flying instructor. For 12 years after that, she worked in the then fledgling computer industry eventually becoming product manager for new technologies while attending classes and working toward a degree in history.
Jan married Syd Fearing in 1995 and have two sons, Zebadiah (Zeb is 10) and Justice (Jub is 9). They love living on their 1820’s farm in Lucketts. Jan grew up in a loving but non-Christian home and for years Syd patiently shared Scripture and prayers with Jan while they raised their young family. After attending church for a few years, becoming involved in Sunday School and Vacation Bible School, and marinating in God’s Word, Jan gave her life to Jesus. Both Jan and Syd teach children’s Sunday School classes and Syd leads one of the set up teams for the church.
“My heart is truly with children and their families and especially dear to me is that elementary school age when the kids are so sharp, so capable, so happy and willing to learn, yet still hold onto much of their innocence. I believe these years to be exceedingly important in forming their attraction to God and the ways of righteousness. Working with children is both a joyful honor and sober responsibility. I feel a sense of excitement and urgency about nurturing our children in their relationship with God and knowledge of His Word.”
Email: jan_syd@pridigy.net
Kristin Crisafulli - Nursery Coordinator
Kristin was born in Fredericksburg, VA in 1971 and raised in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She studied Psychology and received a BA in 1995 from the University of Connecticut. Kristin moved to Virginia in 1995 where she met and married her husband, Michael, in 1998. Kristin and Michael have two beautiful children, Ashlyn born in 2002 and Ryleigh born in 2004.
Kristin joined Church on the Holy Spirit in January 2003 as the nursery coordinator, scheduling childcare coverage where childcare is needed. Before Kristin joined the church she worked for AOL and MITRE as an event coordinator and Executive Assistant. Kristin has used her event coordination skills to coordinate the Christmas program, Easter program, and the Family Fun Festival.
In Kristin’s spare time she enjoys spending time with friends, scrapbooking, and most of all spending time with her husband and children.
Email: kriscrisafulli@aol.com
Jackie Yetman - Business Administrator
Jackie was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1954, she graduated from McDowell Sr. High School and a year later graduated from the School of Computer Tech in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After moving to the Washington, DC area in 1976, she attended NVCC focusing on accounting. Her computer and accounting background have been assets for several companies as an on staff conversion coordinator. She rose to the level of comptroller at H&B Products, Inc after working in the construction industry for many years.
In 1982 she met her husband John and just recently celebrated 24 yrs of marriage. In 1997, they adopted their son, Josh from Kazakhstan as an infant. They attended Truro Episcopal Church for many years before moving to Ashburn. She comes to Church of the Holy Spirit as Business Administrator, after being a stay at home mom for 9 years.
In her spare time, Jackie enjoys cooking, computers and sailing. Learning new things is high on her list of things to do, this next years project is taking keyboard lessons.
Email: jackie_chs@comcast.net
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