Staff

Linda Rogers

Deacon-in-Charge

The Rev. Linda Rogers was born in a suburb of New York City, but she and her husband David, a New Englander, have lived in quite a few parts of the world: Detroit, MI., Racine, WI., Paris, France, Wassenaar, Netherlands, Philadelphia, PA. They moved to the Eastern Shore in 2003. Linda had graduated from Columbia University in New York City with a B.S. in Nursing and had married and worked with the Visiting Nurse Association of Detroit, Michigan upon graduation. There, they brought a son and daughter into the world. After a three year stretch of living in Europe due to her husband’s business, they settled in Philadelphia, Pa., whereupon her parish life eventually led her to the Philadelphia Divinity School where she could inform her faith and test a possible religious vocation, and Villanova University, from which she received a Masters in Theology.

Due to the closing of PDS, she also attended the Lutheran Seminary in Philadelphia. She went on to train as a spiritual director in a specialized program connected to the New York Theological Seminary where she achieved the pre-doctoral Master of Sacred Theology degree. Subsequently she worked in a number of parishes in the Diocese of Pennsylvania as a lay leader. Later, Linda entered a four year post-graduate training program for pastoral psychotherapy at the Blanton Peale Graduate Institute in New York and, upon graduation, worked for the Samaritan Counseling Center in Wyncote, Pa. as a licensed therapist for three years before launching a private practice.

Much later, and retired from her practice, an old sense of calling to ordained ministry returned after she moved to the Shore and joined Hungars Church, but she was surprised to find herself entering the discernment process and finally undergoing more study in preparation to be ordained a deacon in the Episcopal Church, in Sept. 2018 by the Rt. Rev. Herman Hollerith. After serving at Holy Trinity Church, Onancock, and as deacon at All Saints Episcopal Church, Virginia Beach for a year and a half, Bp. Haynes has asked her to assist in the ministries of St. George’s and St. James’.

Amy Snyder Betit

Music Director of St. George’s Parish, and organist at St. George’s Church

Amy Snyder Betit is Music Director of St. George’s Parish, and organist at St. George’s Church, where she was organist and choir director from 2004-08. She has a B.A. in music (piano and composition) from Bennington College and an M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University, Santa Barbara. Until 1980 she was active as a concert composer and conductor, performing in the U.S. and Europe (Holland, England, Austria). She also appeared in concert and recordings as a “sopranino” singer. By 1980 she had written and performed works for orchestra, chamber ensemble and chorus, and received, that year, a National Endowment for the Arts grant to write a cantata for baritone and orchestra, titled “Sunspots and Incense” and premiered at the New Hampshire Music Festival. Amy teaches piano, strings and choir at Eastern Shore’s Own Arts Center in Belle Haven, where she has taught since September of 2012. She also plays violin in the Orchestra of the Eastern Shore.

Julie Badger

Treasurer

A Shore resident for over 36 years, Julie moved to the Shore after growing up in Texas. Most of those years were spent in banking and non-profit industries. She joined the Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation as Executive Director in 2016. In addition, she has worked as the Chief Financial Officer and Interim Head of School for Broadwater Academy.

Mrs. Badger attended Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas and graduated with a degree in Accounting. She is a CPA and serves as Board Chair for Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital, as a director for Riverside Health System, Treasurer for St. George’s Episcopal Parish, and Vice Regent of the Northampton County Chapter of DAR. She lives in Melfa, Virginia with her husband, Hank.