Senior Pastor
Rev. D. Marie Tribble

Pastor D. Marie is a servant of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. She is anointed in the office of preaching and teaching, and is passionate in following the path laid out in 2 Timothy 2:15, which instructs us to “study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Pastor D. Marie joins the First Christian Church family with over 15 years of previous ministry experience. She served as Associate Minister for New Antioch Baptist Church in Baltimore, Maryland where she was licensed in June of 2005. On October 13, 2013 she was licensed by American Baptist Churches of Pennsylvania and Delaware as an Association Minister for the Martin Luther King Baptist Church of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. On September 17, 2017, she was ordained in Christian Ministry by the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Pennsylvania. Pastor D. Marie completed her Masters in Divinity for the School of Theology at Virginia Union University and a Masters of Arts and Religion for Lancaster Theological Seminary in May of 2016. Pastor D. Marie is CEO & President of FACE-2-FACE Ministries; a Mental Health Outreach Center she founded on November 11, 2016. She is the only daughter of Mary Pauling and the mother of Aariona, Aaron, and Aarica.