Meet our Chaplain
Rev. Shelley Gardner
Rev. Shelley S. Gardner joined the Jarvie program as a full-time chaplain on May 1, 2020. Well acquainted with the Jarvie catchment area, as the Jarvie Chaplain, Shelley enjoys the rich diversity of Protestant faith traditions, life journeys, and faithful expressions of service to the church and to the wider community represented in the active lives of the Jarvie beneficiaries whom she is honored to serve.
Additionally, as the Program Director, Shelley administers the Jarvie Grant program which provides monetary grants to organizations serving older adults within the Jarvie catchment area, greatly expanding the reach of the Jarvie Program.
Shelley has a deep care and concern for the elderly, and it has been an integral part of her ministry since she was ordained in 2010. She served as the first ordained and installed female Associate Pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Woodbridge, New Jersey. She finished her service there in December 2019 to join the Jarvie program full-time.
Shelley is an active Teaching Elder in the Presbytery of Northeast New Jersey, providing churches with pulpit supply as well as serving as the presbytery’s representative on the Board of Trustees for Johnsonburg Camp & Retreat Center.
Shelley holds an Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary a Master of Arts from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and a Bachelor of Arts from American University.