Rev. Layne Baily Brubaker joined Lewinsville’s staff on August 23, 2021, as the Associate Pastor for Christian Formation. She was accepted by the congregation on July 18, 2021.
Before coming to Lewinsville, Layne was the founding pastor of Hagar’s Community Church in Tacoma, Washington, located inside the Washington Correction Center for Women, the state’s largest prison for women. Under her leadership, the church grew from two to over one hundred participants. During the Covid-19 lockdown, she was the only “outside” person allowed in the prison to lead worship or any other programming.
Layne’s husband, Crawford, is also an ordained minister. He most recently served as a Transitional Pastor and a facilitator for the Vital Congregation Initiative with the Presbytery of Olympia. Crawford and Layne met at Princeton, where he graduated with a Master of Divinity degree in 2009 and a Master of Religion and Society in 2010. Crawford enjoys writing, particularly poetry.
Layne is a native of Cleveland, Tennessee, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from nearby Lee University with a major in Bible and Theology and a minor in Biblical Languages. After earning her Master of Divinity in 2009 and a Master of Theology in 2010 from Princeton Seminary, she worked as Site Coordinator of the Young Adult Volunteer program in the Presbytery of South Louisiana. While in New Orleans, she co-founded Okra Abbey, a new worshipping community in an urban garden in Pigeon Town, New Orleans.