Since she was a teenager, Carol has felt God's call to ministry. Growing up in a denomination that does not ordain women, she first pursued her deep love of music. Graduating Phi Beta Kappa and valedictorian from Centre College, Carol received a Master's of Music degree from New England Conservatory in Boston. She then began to serve congregations as a Minister of Music as an organist, choral director, and singer. But that sense of call did not disappear. In 2000, Carol graduated with an MDiv degree from Vanderbilt Divinity School, was ordained to the ministry of Word and Sacrament, and accepted a call to start a new Presbyterian congregation outside Nashville. Carol has been the choral director and organist for High Holy Day music at Congregation Micah, a Reform synagogue in Nashville, for several years. She cares deeply about ecumenism and interfaith dialogue. She dreams of fostering a congregation that will seek to enable the arts to flourish as a part of the worship of God and to promote excellence in the teaching of the arts, both musical and visual, to the children of her area. She is currently a participant in a Lilly-funded grant administered through the Institute for Clergy Excellence. This project underwrites a group of eight pastors' expenses as they study the music, worship, and preaching of the contemporary church across the country over a three-year period. Carol is also a member of Lectio Jubilate, a group of clergy from across the country who gather annually to present papers and to study with scholars in the fields of biblical study and homiletics.
Carol is married to K. C. Ptomey, Jr. and the mother of two children, John and Liz.
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