Who We Are
A Team With a Passion for Helping Children Grow
Our experienced team works hard to provide a loving and safe environment where children develop confidence in who they are as children of God. We encourage a love for themselves and others and also a love for learning that will excite and prepare them for the years ahead.
Allison Mercier
Program Director
Preschool@FaithMA.orgTime at HCP 9 Years
Favorite HCP Memory
Ali Mercier is our first HCP “graduate” who returned in a teaching role in 2012 and has now become the full-time Director. Ali has extensive preschool teaching experience. She did her schooling for both her teaching and director certificate at Mass Bay Community College. Ali’s 3 children (Mackenzie, Kayla, and Matthew) are all HCP graduates. She and her family (including husband Matthew) live in Holliston.
Rebekah Ahern
Pre-K Teacher
Preschool113@fcch.orgTime at HCP 3 Years
Favorite HCP Memory
Rebekah joined the teaching team at HCP in August of 2018. She has a Bachelor's degree in education. She taught at the middle school level before discovering her passion for preschoolers! Rebekah and her husband, Sean, live in Walpole with their three daughters.
Micaela DeBoer
Preschool Teacher
Preschool112@fcch.orgTime at HCP
Favorite HCP Memory
Micaela is a graduate of Johnson and Wales with a degree in Culinary Arts and Food Service Management. Micaela is a hard worker and when she is not at HCP she can also be found working at Five Guys. Over the years, she volunteered by providing child care for bible studies and was a part of vacation bible school. Micaela joined the HCP team in 2019 and since then has obtained her EEC teaching certificate for preschool. Micaela has also developed one of our extracurricular activities - cooking with kids - which combines her love of children with her culinary background.
Dennie Walker
Preschool Teacher
Preschool112@fcch.orgTime at HCP
Favorite HCP Memory
Dennie has always had a calling for working with children. She graduated from Assumption College with an undergraduate degree in psychology and minors in sociology and education. Dennie obtained her Master’s degree in education and taught in Natick, Wellesley, and Westborough public schools. She took a break from teaching to raise her 3 children and then joined the HCP teaching team in 2017. Dennie, her husband Brad and their 3 children live in Hopkinton.
Sherie Anderson
Preschool Teacher
Preschool111@fcch.orgTime at HCP 5 Years
Favorite HCP Memory I love every year when we put together a Thanksgiving feast of cookies and juice as it’s a fun time when the whole school comes together.
Sherie Anderson joined HCP in a teaching role in 2016. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Athletic Training from Northeastern University and continued studies in Child Development from Becker College. After spending many years at home with her two children, Sherie decided to get back into a teaching role. Luckily, HCP was the perfect place for her to share God’s love and word with her favorite aged people, preschoolers! Sherie and her husband, Stephen, live in Hopkinton with their two boys John and Lucas – both are graduates of HCP.
Melissa Gooley
Preschool Teacher
Preschool115@fcch.orgTime at HCP
Favorite HCP Memory
Melissa has a B.A. degree in political science from Wellesley College and a Masters in Education from Harvard University. Melissa has taught at both the elementary and high school levels but found her "people" when she started teaching preschoolers. In addition to teaching, for over a decade she was the Assistant Registrar at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine where she worked with graduate students and helped to design and implement two student information systems. Teaching the afternoon art class at HCP, allows her to share her love of art and art history with our students. Melissa and her husband Pete live in Hopkinton and their twins Kyle and Amanda are HCP graduates.
Sarah Spindell-McGrath
Preschool Teacher
Time at HCP
Favorite HCP Memory
Sarah has graduated from Massbay Community College with degree in Early Childhood Education andis also an EEC certified Preschool teacher. Sarah has always felt a calling for working with children and was the primary babysitter for several different families over the years. Sarah joined the HCP team in 2020. When she is not at school she home, in Milford, with her daughter Madelyn and her crazy Great Dane puppy Luna. 🙂