About Us
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Our Pastor
John Mishler came to Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church as Pastor in December, 2000.
A graduate of Eckerd College in Florida, and the Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia,
Pastor John was ordained in 1979. Before coming to serve at LPPC, John served at First Presbyterian
church, Northville and pastured Covenant Presbyterian Church in East Detroit (now Eastpointe.)
With a Computer Science degree from Wayne State, Pastor John is also part-time programmer
and project leader for the Internal Revenue Service. Pastor John has a passion for working with
young people and never misses an opportunity to work closely with them. John also takes great joy
in preaching and ministering to the sick and shut-ins and hospitalized.
John is married to Attorney Beth Baergen, an accomplished musician and singer.
John also is a musician of note and a choir member.
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John Mishler
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Our Pastor’s Associate
Edwin Fabré is an Elder in the Presbyterian Church. A transplanted New Yorker, Edwin graduated from the
University of Michigan Law School (1971) and from Ecumenical Theological Seminary of June 2009 with a
Masters of Divinity. Edwin joined our pastoral staff in November of 2007, and enjoys teaching adult Bible
classes, preaching and working with teenagers. With Pastor John, Edwin has made hospital visits and sick
and shut-in calls. In conjunction with the Pastor and the church elders, Edwin has been working on church growth and transformation.
Edwin is married to Justine Fabré, is the father of five and granddad of two boys.
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Edwin Fabré
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Our Staff
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Director of Music and Pianist
Wendy is a 1986 graduate of Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina.
She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance. Her first professional
job (in 1998) was playing keyboard in an accordion orchestra, and she still plays
for about 200 weddings a year at the Little Wedding Chapel. She is the official
conference pianist at the annual Rotary District 6400 conference. She also accompanies
voice students who are competing in the American Guild of Musicians every year,
as well as judging piano at local level teenagers competing for “Talents for Christ”
contest. She also plays at receptions and parties.
LPPC is Wendy’s first choir director position, but she has been an accompanist for a long time.
She started in junior high for the teen choir at church, then in senior high for the school choir.
She traveled to churches with her father, who gave choral workshops while she accompanied him
on the piano. She also played for the Taylor Community Chorus for a few years as well as a few other church choirs.
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Wendy Fichter
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Custodian
Marilee has been working for LPPC since 2000. She has also been working at Ecorse Presbyterian (EPC) since 1998.
Marilee was a waitress at Fergie’s Fish and Chips until 1998 when she began taking care of her handicapped dwarf
niece (Arline Devoy somewhat well known in the area). She was working at EPC 10-12 hours a week at that time
and knew Marilyn Higgins who told her about LPPC needing a custodian. Marilee has been married to George for
26 years, has two adult daughters, Jessica and Keri and 3 grandchildren. Alanna is 5, Nathan is 4 and Kyle is 1.
While she no longer takes care of Arline, she does babysit every day for her grandchildren as well as her other duties
with the two churches, 1 day a week she cleans at Dearborn Family Pet Care, cleans a doctors house 1 day a week
and cleans for and transports and elderly woman 2 days a week. She enjoys working for the churches and doing the
other cleaning because it allows her to set her own hours most of the time and her grandchildren can go to work with her.
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Marilee Schwartz
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Secretary
Sharron has been the church secretary since May of 2006. What began as a temporary position turned into
a permanent one in December of the same year. She has also been a member of the congregation since
early childhood. Sharron handles general administrative support to church management and other staff as
well as producing newsletters, bulletins, announcements, flyers, correspondence, tickets and other communication materials.
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Sharron McDougall-Dey
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