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Stephanie Vader
Senior pastor, Capitol Hill United Methodist Church, Washington, D.C.
Stephanie Vader serves as the senior pastor at Capitol Hill United Methodist Church in Washington, D.C. She has pastored United Methodist Churches for 30 years. Vader earned her bachelor’s degree in religious studies from the College of Wooster in Ohio and graduated with her M.Div. from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California.
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