Associate Executive Minister

Rev. Cheryl M. Frank
Associate Executive Minister

585.730.1719
[email protected] 
  

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Beginning her service to ABCNYS on February 1, 2026, Rev. Frank will be traveling to our churches throughout upstate New York, providing support and encouragement to our churches and leaders.  

“With her years of local church experience and her gift for listening, Rev. Cheryl Frank will be a collaborative partner for the ABCNYS Executive Ministry team and our Region staff,” notes Executive Minister Rev. Jerrod H. Hugenot. Rev. Frank will work from her home in the Rochester area and at the Syracuse office by appointment. She will assist Rev. Hugenot with pastoral searches, caring for pastoral colleagues, and other local church support needs.

An ordained American Baptist minister, Rev. Frank joins ABCNYS after a decade as the Associate Pastor of the Greece Baptist Church in Rochester, NY. Previously, she served on the staff of the First Baptist Church of Rochester (2005-2015). Rev. Frank is an accomplished violist and church musician and served on committees within the ABC Rochester/Genesee Region. She has also served as a musician, choir director, and preacher at annual ABWM NYS Conventions.

Born in Racine, Wisconsin, Rev. Frank studied at Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio and the Eastman School of Music and Colgate Rochester Crozier Divinity School, both in Rochester, NY. Rev. Frank and her husband Bruce are blessed to have raised two adult daughters.

More contact information for Rev. Frank will be shared closer to her February 1, 2026, start date!

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