Reverend Amelia Edson is passionate about meaningful worship that fuels Spirit filled and justice oriented lives. Having worked as a Head Start Teacher, a political organizer, and as a Chaplain in a hospital and a men's prison and detox facility, she cares deeply about making the transformative teachings of Christianity real and accessible to people of all ages and all stages of life.

Reverend Amelia graduated from Harvard Divinity School where she was awarded the Presidential Scholarship. During her time at Harvard Amelia received the Donald Wells Preaching Prize from the Massachusetts Bible Society, served as a Ministerial Intern at Old South Church in Boston, worked as a Chaplain at Essex County Correctional Center and completed a Clinical Pastoral Education Unit doing Chaplaincy at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston.

Prior to Divinity School, Amelia was a Faith Director for marriage equality campaigns in Oregon, Maine, Rhode Island, and New Jersey; she continued as a faith consultant to the American Civil Liberties Union while preparing for ministry.

Amelia served as the Senior Pastor at the Falmouth Congregational Church in Falmouth, Maine for the past 6 years. in 2025 she changed her role and now serves as the Minister for Children and Families where she is able to nurture her passion for passing on the faith, knowledge, and security of God’s love to children and families, including her own children, who are 5 and 3 year old.

Amelia in honored to serve as the Chaplain for the Falmouth Police Department and as the Chaplain to the Maine State Police Association.

Amelia grew up in Freeport, Maine. She is happy to serve a church that strives to worship God, help one another, and serve our neighbors, and happy to be home in our wonderful state!