Gretta is from Pennsylvania, and learned about Communitas through Mike and Carol Kurtyka and Amy Swacina that share the same home church. Tri-State Fellowship in Hagerstown Maryland. She originally came to Glasgow in 2021 as an intern and felt called to come back. She is a part of the Upper Room Church.
Upper Room Church, is an English & Farsi based church made up of 100+ Iranian, Kurdish and Afghan refugees. From a small home-based Bible study of ten people in 2014, it is now a church that meets weekly in a local rented church building. To learn more about the work in Glasgow, Upper Room’s website is: www.upperroomchurch.co.uk
Gretta supports the ministry of the Upper Room Church serving with their children, and teen ministries. She disciples different young women, both Persian and Western, and assists with admin.
For fun she enjoys Swimming, mostly in a pool but is known to swim in icy cold Lochs all times of year. She also plays water polo and is terrible at it, but having a fantastic time, nonetheless.
Something she’s not total garbage at…. watercolor. Check out her artwork at www.diasporadesignco.com, or follow along on instagram @diasporadesignco.