Leadership Team
Purpose, Vision, and Mission
The following statements were overwhelmingly affirmed by the National UCC Board of Directors at their fall business meeting, October 20-22, 2016. Here at Heidelberg we fully embrace and support these statements.
Purpose Statement (from the Gospel of Matthew):
To love God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength and our neighbor as ourselves.
Vision Statement:
United in Christ's love, a just world for all.
Mission statement:
United in Spirit and inspired by God's grace, we welcome all, love all, and seek justice for all.
To the above, we add our own Mission Statement:
Heidelberg UCC: a beacon of love, building a community of faith, inclusion, and justice through shared stories in downtown York.
Pastoral Staff
D. Marie Tribble,PASTOR
Rev. D. Marie Tribble, MDiv. MAR is a native of Baltimore, Maryland, licensed into Christian Ministry in June 2005 at the New Antioch Baptist Church. She accepted her 1st Pastoral assignment with First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Lemoyne, PA in September 2015 and was ordained for Christian Ministry by the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Pennsylvania on September 17, 2017.
In January 2020, in partnership with New Church Ministries of the DOC she became the Founding Pastor of Restoration Community Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) (RC3); a congregation focused on Community Service. In October 2024 she accepted the call aa Pastor of Heidelberg United Church of Christ in York.
Rev. Tribble holds an earned Bachelor of Science in Business Administration & Finance from Walden University, a Master of Divinity from the Samuel Dewitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University, a Master of Arts in Religion, from Lancaster Theological Seminary, and presently pursuing a PhD in Marriage & Family Therapy at Eastern University..
Rev. Tribble is the Founder of FACE-2-FACE Ministries; a Nonprofit Mental Health Outreach Center which presently services Central Pennsylvania community and a Family Based Mental Health Professional.
In addition to Theology and Mental Health, Rev. Tribble is equally passionate regarding the work of Justice. She has served the community as Co-Director of Christian Churches United (CCU) Race and Unity Action Coalition. She is presently a Community Leader for the Messiah University Thriving Together: Congregations for Racial Justice Program, and Board Member for the Rainbow Rose Center in York, PA. She is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, serving as Chaplain, for the York Alumnae Chapter.
Rev. Tribble is passionate in her attempts to continue proclaiming God‘s ability to break chains of bondage and restore souls to their rightful places within the body of Christ. She is committed to serving God in excellence and presenting a lifestyle that is a witness of a true relationship with Jesus Christ. She is the only daughter of Mary Pauling and the proud mother of Aariona, Aarimoni, Aarica & Asher thee Pup.
Support Staff
RICHARD FREY, minister of Music
Richard E. Frey (he/him/his) joined Heidelberg as Minister of Music in 2022. He works with the pastoral and worship team to plan hymns and special music and can often be found at playing showtunes on the organ at our First Friday open house.
Richard is a native of Bethlehem, PA. He has degrees from Westminster Choir college, Boston University, and Palmer Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He has served as Minister of Music at churches in Binghamton, NY, Wayne, A., Ridgewood, NJ, Hanover, PA, and most recently at Unitarian/Universalist Congregation of York and Zwingli Lutheran Church in Spring Grove, PA. He has given recitals at St. Patrick's Cathedral and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC, the West Point Cadet Chapel, and at Musikfest in Bethlehem, PA. He twice accompanied Peter, Paul, and Mary at the Great Auditorium in Ocean Grove, NJ. He served as organist for the national convention of the National Council of Churches in Cleveland in 1981. He served on the Worship Planning Committee for the National Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland in 1986. He has presented benefit concerts for "Bread for the World" and many other organizations. As a composer, Dick has 23 works published. He has made 8 recordings of organ music. He is married to Susan Dotterer Frey, also a graduate of Westminster Choir College, and a Print Music Specialist at Menchey Music in Hanover, PA. The Freys have 3 children, 5 grandchildren, and lots of pets!
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Alison Vedder, OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR
Alison Vedder is Heidelberg’s Office Administrator. She started working with us in June of 2008. Alison graduated from Spring Grove High School, worked for Pfaltzgraff, married her husband Chris in 1987, and has three children and six grandchildren.
She loved being a stay-at-home mom in which she volunteered in many capacities, which led to her employment with the West York School District before coming to Heidelberg. Alison also enjoys spending time with family and friends, reading, walking, sudoku, word games, puzzles, and television.