Immanuel UCC’s New Settled Pastor
Pastor Tracy Howe
We are excited to announce that Rev. Dr. Tracy Howe will join us, as our settled pastor beginning June 1, 2026.
Rev. Dr. Tracy Howe
Rev. Dr. Tracy Howe (Pastor Tracy) moved to Baltimore from Tucson, AZ with her teenage daughter, Sasha, and her three dogs, Oso, Salsa, and Nube, the summer of 2026 to serve Immanuel Catonsville and continue her writing and artistry through Restoration Village Arts, the 501(c)3 she founded.
Music is a big part of her life. She spent a decade touring as a singer/songwriter in the US and Latin America and continues to write and produce music. She often writes new songs to sing with Immanuel. Tracy was a frontline organizer in Charlottesville, VA the summer of 2017 and continues to be deeply engaged in abolition work, antifascism and organizing locally and nationally. She has trained thousands of people in non-violent direct action, rapid response, anti-repression and cultural organizing. Her songs have been used by faith communities and in movement work globally. Tracy is a contributing author to Building Up a New World, Congregational Organizing for Transformative Impact (Pilgrim Press 2023) and is currently working on a full theology manuscript. She has a Ph.D. in Applied Intercultural Arts Research from the University of Arizona where she where she explored spirituality in 21st century US based social movements and the relationship between US settler colonialism and present-day fascism.
She received her BA in Comparative Religions from Colorado College and her Ministry of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School. She was ordained in 2016 and worked as a university minister at U.Va. in Charlottesville before working at the National Ministries of the UCC where she served for nine years, first as the Minister for Congregational and Community Engagement and then the Minister of Faith Education, Innovation and Formation (FaithINFO).
She is dreaming with Immanuel about how to work towards a faithful, vital and sustainable future as a church and community center and growing and serving in West Baltimore County and City towards being the faith community that God has called Immanuel to be.