Rev. Sarah Wood Lee graduated from Averett College (now University) in 1980 with a degree in Religious Education. She then attended Southeastern Baptist Seminary in Wake Forest, NC. 

Pastors Sean and Sarah met in Hebrew class, and in 1982 they were married. They both graduated from SEBT in 1983 with a Master's of Divinity degree, shortly afterwhich Rev. Sarah was ordained in 1983 at St. John's Baptist Church in Raleigh, NC. 

After graduating from seminary, Sarah and Sean served with the Southern Baptist Home Mission Board as Church Planters in North Dakota from 1983-1987. They successfully started a church in Burlington, North Dakota located about 40 miles from Canada and 50 miles from the Montana border. Burlington Baptist church was started, organized, and moved into a building of their own within three years.

During the same time, Pastor Sarah began her training as a Clinical Chaplain. She completed her 1600 hours of Clinical Pastoral Education and was awarded Board Certification with the Association of Professional Chaplains in 1984. She has since served for over 30 years as a Health Care Chaplain in hospitals, hospices, and long term care facilities. 

Pastor Sean and Pastor Sarah left the Southern Baptist Convention and had their ordinations recognized as American Baptist ministers in 1989. Rev. Sarah then assisted Pastor Sean in planting the Good Shepherd Baptist church, the new American Baptist Church in Bear, DE from 1990 to1996. 

Ruth started coming to Calvary the week after she and her husband moved to Maryland in the year 2000. She started teaching an adult church school class soon afterward. A social worker in New Jersey, she also got involved in visiting our shut-ins. While assisting Calvary Baptist Church pastor with a closed-circuit TV service at GBMC, she learned of the chaplaincy training program at Johns Hopkins Hospital. A few months later, she enrolled, completed the training for an MA in Church Ministries, and was ordained at Calvary in 2010. Having worked for ten years as a chaplain at Johns Hopkins until she retired in 2014, she continues to do visitation and teaching for Calvary.

Joyce is a lifelong Towson resident. She started playing piano at age 5 and organ at age 17, and graduated with a BA degree in music. She was organist of another church from 1981 -2010 and joined the staff here at Calvary in 2016. Joyce now plays many different musical instruments and enjoys teaching music students of all ages. She delights to write both words and music to the glory of God, and also enjoys walking, drawing and painting.

"Grace so endless, mercy so new,

Lord, I'll love You forever,

Take my heart, I give it to You,

Jesus, magnificent Savior."

(from Little Blond Child, © 2014 by Joyce Keedy)

Drew Wright graduated from Loch Raven High School in 2008 and went on to study music at UMBC. He graduated with a BA in music composition and recording technology in 2012. In 2013, he began leading the youth choir at Calvary Baptist Church. Today, he leads the Motley Choir, Children's Choir, and Bell Choir, and records, edits, mixes, and masters the music and sermons to be posted on the website. He also teaches voice/guitar/bass/drums/keys and coaches bands at Lutherville Rock School.