The Rev. Shannon Buehler began to actively respond to her sense of a divine call to the ordained ministry in 2001, taking distance courses from Anderson School of Theology, working also with the Credentials Committee on a course of independent study, and receiving her ministerial license in 2004. In 2005 she was recognized by her home congregation as Minister of Music and Worship. She has supplied the pulpit at the Accokeek First Church of God as well as at her home church, on numerous occasions over the last several years. Her husband of nearly 29 years, the Rev. Robert C. Buehler, expressed his delight with and support for this step in her ministry, and the two of them look forward to working together as a team in their current assigment in Charles County, Maryland. She will continue to support her husband in his pastoral ministry, pursue her own calling as a preacher, music minister and Christian educator, and be attentive to further leadings as the Spirit of God directs.