Emrie was born in Denver, Colorado, where she lived until she was 11. She then moved to Westborough, Massachusetts, where she spent many of her formative years. She attended Gordon College, a small Christian Liberal Arts school in Massachusetts, where she studied Global Christianity and Biblical Studies. After graduation, she moved to Nashville, Tennessee.
In 2017, Emrie started her work at Martha O’Bryan Center in Adult Education, helping economically vulnerable people earn their High School Equivalency diplomas. Additionally, she served as Youth Pastor at Jenkins CP Church. In 2018, Emrie started her Master of Divinity degree at Memphis Theological Seminary. For two years, she stayed with friends in Memphis two days out of the week and continued to work part time at the Martha O’Bryan Center and at Jenkins. Meanwhile, she also served on the pulpit supply list for Columbia Presbytery. She has traveled to preach at more than a dozen different CP churches. In January 2020, Emrie felt that God was telling her to take a break from this demanding schedule to reflect on God’s call. She did not know when she resigned as Youth Pastor and took a semester off from seminary that COVID-19 would hit. Nor did she know that on April 1, 2020, she would meet Matt Rogers, the man she would marry (April Fools!).
Matt and Emrie were engaged on their one-year anniversary and married on August 7th, 2021, at West Nashville CP Church. After getting married, they visited several CP churches in Nashville, and felt that Tusculum CP was their church home. In the Fall of 2022, Emrie completed her MDiv with a clinical practicum as a Hospital Chaplain at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. During this time, she felt God’s call to Pastor at Tusculum and is delighted to this day to serve God alongside the congregation that welcomed her so wholeheartedly!