Our Staff
Rev. Jed Watson was installed as pastor of Millburn Church
on April 3, 2005. A native of Racine, WI, he graduated from
Marquette University in 1988 with a degree in political science and
English, and earned a master’s degree in public policy and
administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990. He
worked in various capacities in criminal justice, where his duties
often took him into the field – to prisons, detention centers,
treatment facilities and court rooms – visiting offenders, victims
and the professionals who serve them. Through those experiences he
acquired fresh insights into the reality and nature of human
brokenness, pain and tragedy. He discovered that the problems that
occupied him professionally – violence, abuse, exploitation - are
all largely spiritual in nature, products of broken relationships
and distorted understandings of ourselves in relation to one another
and to God. It was with this sharpened vision and renewed energy
that he revisited an idea he had pondered many times: to seek a
career in the Christian ministry.
So he went to seminary, earning a Master of Divinity from United
Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities in 2002. Pastor Jed
understands the Christian life as a continual homecoming, a
returning again and anew to the center of meaning, value and purpose
in our lives. He considers ministry the ongoing celebration of our
Christian homecoming, which is born of God’s Spirit. He has
emphasized Christian Education in his ministry, and believes it is
for all ages. He is deeply moved when a young child or youth first
learns of the love and grace of God, and considers it an
indescribable joy when a more experienced person finds a faith that
calls her or him home again in a new and refreshing way.
Pastor Jed is married to Susan Watson, who is a corporate archivist.
He is an avid baseball fan (Milwaukee Brewers) and enjoys music,
reading and writing.
Margo Paramski has been a member of Millburn church for over
forty years. Born and raised in Old Mill Creek, she attended
Millburn School and Warren High School. Margo graduated from Eastern
Illinois University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Elementary
Education. She taught at Woodland School for eight years and Sunday
School here at Millburn Church for ten years. She and her husband
Russell have two sons, Joshua and Kyle.
In 1992, Margo began our Youth Program KUC (Kids under the Cross).
She has been our Director of Christian Education since March of
2000.