Ellie Coleman has been hired as our Sunday nursery attendant, caring for young children during worship services.

Ellie’s weekday position is as a lead at the Edina Kids’ Club, held at an elementary school, where she works one-on-one and with small groups of elementary-age children, leading STEM projects, crafts, and other activities.

Prior to that, she worked for the Reading Corps at Myers-Wilkins Elementary School in Duluth, tutoring a diverse group of children from kindergarten through third grade in basic reading and English skills.

She learned to ride horseback at Diane Williams Riding in Menomonie, Wisconsin, and worked there as a youth, caring for horses, doing stable maintenance, and giving some riding instruction to students of various ages and abilities in the stable’s riding program.

Her high school diploma is from the Minnesota Connections Academy in St. Paul, an online charter school, and she has taken some general college requirements at Inver Hills Community College.

Ellie is a lifetime member of the Girl Scouts, having earned both her Bronze and Silver Awards, and was active in Job’s Daughters International, the partner Masonic youth organization to DeMolay.

Ellie lives in South St. Paul with her two cats, and goes to Menomonie as often as she can to ride her horse.