Episcopal priest found her calling with God, family, childhood church
The Rev. Marcia Beam, 59
By BY PILAR ULIBARRI de RIVERA
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Long before she was a reverend, she was little Marcia McKay, the Delray Beach girl who respected the elders in her neighborhood and attended St. Matthew's Episcopal Church every Sunday with her family.

"My mother would lay out our clothes every Saturday night," she recalled. "She was very particular; everything had to be starched and ironed and in place."

Those were the days when ladies wore hats and gloves to Sunday service and one had to get to church early to get a good seat. They were the days when, if you didn't go to church, you weren't allowed to do anything for the rest of the day.

"Now, we're just trying to get people to come," said the Rev. Marcia Beam, 59, who is now the priest-in-charge of the church where she grew up at 404 S.W. Third St. story