Heather Ramirez
Music Ministries Director
Heather Ramirez was born in Arlington, Texas and has been a Houstonian for 35 years. She is excited to serve as the Music Ministries Director at Love United Methodist Church. She graduated from the University of Houston with a Bachelor of Music degree and a minor in Education. She has 15 years of teaching experience at the elementary and middle school levels and she taught in private and public schools. She is also the music teacher at Lorenzo De Zavala Elementary here in Baytown.
She served as the choir director at Park Place United Methodist Parish in Houston, the Director of Music Ministries at Cedar Bayou Grace United Methodist Church in Baytown, Texas and the Director of Music and Children’s Ministries at Cypress Trails UMC in Spring, Texas. In 2011, she received her Certification in Spiritual Direction from the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Heather is also a licensed Zumba, Zumba Kids, Zumba Toning and Zumba Gold instructor.
Heather has been married to Pastor Luis for 25 years and they have one daughter, Isabella and a dog named Luna.
Paula Harrison
Organist, Pianist & Handbell Conductor
Paula Harrison was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. She and Doug have been married for 27 years, and have a combined family of three children, six grandchildren, three great grandchildren, and three dogs.
Paula’s undergraduate work was done at Indiana University School of Music. She did postgraduate work at Our Lady of the Lake University, and music certification studies at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University.
Paula taught elementary music at the Kincaid School in Houston and has worked in numerous United Methodist, Lutheran ELCA, and Baptist churches as the organist/pianist, children’s choir director, handbell director, and/or director of music. She has owned a music studio giving piano lessons to both children and adults since 1971. She taught a beginning and advanced accompanying course for pianists at the Texas Conference Choir Clinic for three years. She has also served as the pianist/music director for numerous high school and community theater musicals.
Paula was a founding organizer of An August Adventure, an interdisciplinary workshop sponsored by the Greater Houston Handbell Association, Houston Chapter of The American Guild of Organists, and Houston Chapter Choristers Guild. She founded the Conroe Federated Music Club and has served as president of that organization as well as the Huntsville Music Teachers Association, San Jacinto Music Teachers Association, Sigma Alpha lota professional music fraternity for women, and Houston Chapter Choristers Guild.
She served on the worship committed for the Baytown Ministerial Alliance and the Texas Conference Choir Clinic Board of Directors. She served as a district delegate to the Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church for many years and served on the Conference Passionate Worship Committee.
Paula is published in Clavier Magazine, a national publication for piano teachers, Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who in the World.