LYNDONVILLE - The first female preacher keeps going.
A resident of Lyndonville since the 1950's Janette Mc Knight has been a preacher all over the NorthEast Kingdom.
Ever since she was a young girl Mc Knight says she wanted to be a preacher " I knew from the time I was eight years old that someday I would be a minister and I always thought about being a minister because I was brought up Protestant."
Her work has taken her all over the NorthEast Kingdom but for so many years she's called Saint Peter's church in Lyndonville home.
Although retired by the cannon law the church she is preaching at must pay her but she believes it can go to better use "the treasure writes me a check and i go home and write the church a check to the restoration fund to help them with repair work that has to be done."
Not only is she known to give back to her church but is also recognized as the first female priest in the NorthEast Kingdom where a symbol is etched in a stain glass window.
Mc Knight says it's not about her, but for others "money makes the building, people make the church."