Pastor Faye E. Schott was born in Columbus, Ohio and grew up near the town of Westerville. A life-long Lutheran, she was baptized at St. Paul Lutheran Church and participated in all aspects of the congregation’s life. After graduation from high school she attended Capital University and then Ohio State University, where she received a B.A. in English literature. Going on to the University of North Carolina, she earned a master’s degree in library science and then worked at the Universitätsbibliothek in Dortmund, Germany, and later at the public library of Billerica, Massachusetts.
Answering a call to ordained ministry, she enrolled as a seminarian and was part of the first graduating class of Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio. Ordained in 1979 and installed at Christ Lutheran Church of Elm Creek near Seguin, Texas, she was the second woman to serve as a parish pastor in the Southern District of the former American Lutheran Church (ALC). Five years later she left to pursue graduate work at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Theology in 1990.
From 1990 until last year she taught theology and Lutheran Confessions at the Lutheran Seminary Program in the Southwest in Austin. Since the M.Div. program there was ended last June, she has been supply preaching at Ebenezer Lutheran in Maxwell, Texas and most recently at the Shared Lutheran Ministry near LaGrange. She is very happy in coming to the Hill Country Conference where three of her former students are currently serving as pastors. Apart from the church, her biggest interests are music (she plays the flute), gardening and travel (her favorite places outside Texas are Germany and Guatemala).