Clergy & Staff

The Rev. Tony Auer

BRIDGE PASTOR
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Pastor Tony is one of those guys who couldn’t decide what he wanted to be when he grew up. So, he didn’t (grow up, that is). He’s worked as an elementary school teacher, a ski patroller, a professional actor, a photographer, a restaurateur, and a pastor, most of that time bouncing between being a pastor and acting on stage, screen, and television. At Zion, Tony loves to share his gifts of biblical interpretation and storytelling.

A 1980 graduate of Luther Seminary in St. Paul, MN, Tony served three congregations before retiring in 2010: Mount Tabor Lutheran Church, Salt Lake City; Emmanuel Lutheran Church, North Hollywood, CA; and Hill Avenue Grace Lutheran Church, Pasadena, CA.

David Chamberlin

ORGANIST
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David, who has served as Zion’s organist since 1987, is all about pipe organs: he builds them, plays them, and writes music for them.

Since 1985, he has been employed at M. L. Bigelow & Company, Inc., Organ Builders, of American Fork, where he serves as vice-president and tonal director.
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He also freelances as a pipe organ tuner/technician. In addition to playing the organ, he regularly composes psalm settings for congregational use. In 1995, Zion commissioned him to compose a new liturgical setting, Lord, We Come to Your Table, now in regular use.

David has appeared in recital in the United States and Germany, including the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, and Freiberg Cathedral. He occasionally performs his own compositions on organs that he has helped design and build.

Dave Zabriskie

DIRECTOR, CHANCEL CHOIR
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Dr. David Zabriskie became Director of the Chancel Choir in the fall of 2019. He has degrees in Music Composition and Conducting from Brigham Young University and Northwestern University and is well known in the music circles of Utah. His composition career lies in two genres:  1-Sacred Choral Music and 2-Music and Sound effects for Slot Machines (more lovingly called the sacred and the profane). His musical "Savior of the World" has been playing each year at the LDS Conference Center Little Theatre for the past 25 years.

His publications of choral music are over two hundred, including a hymn published in the LDS Hymnbook called "Come, Lord Jesus.” He specially composed and directed the choir anthem “Called By Name” (text based on Isaiah 43) for Pastor Michael’s service of installation on March 11, 2023.

Susan Swidnicki

CHILDREN'S CHOIR DIRECTOR
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Susan Swidnicki has served as the director of music for children and teens at Zion Lutheran since 1999. She loves walking alongside children as they grow as musicians, as creative beings, and in their spiritual journeys. She leads Zion’s annual Vacation Bible School Music Camp with an emphasis on the highest quality teaching paired with a joyful camp where a diverse group of children and teens can come together as a Christ-centered community.

Susan holds degrees in music performance from the St. Louis Conservatory of Music and the University of Utah. She holds full Orff certification from the University of Kentucky and Kodaly certification from Seattle Pacific University.

She has completed the Smithsonian Multicultural Pedagogy course at the University of Washington. Susan is the music teacher for the McCarthey campus of Rowland Hall. She has had an extensive performing career as an oboist and was principal oboist for Ballet West, as well as an extra oboist with the Utah Symphony for many years.

Tracy Hackworth

PARISH ADMINISTRATOR
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Tracy Hackworth has served as Zion’s Parish Administrator in two stints for a combined 12 years. Tracy married Bob in 1988 and is the mother of two successful adult children: Christian & Emily.  
 
Tracy enjoys her role at Zion and is especially fond of greeting the preschool children and their parents as they arrive daily for school.
 
In her free time Tracy loves visits to Big Sky Montana where she enjoys time with extended family hiking in summer and snow shoeing during winter.

Chelene Fortier

Marketing & Communications Specialist
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Chelene is the Marketing & Communications Specialist for Zion. She has a degree in Journalism from the University of Utah and has worked as a writer and editor for companies such as American Express, Northwestern University/Kellogg School of Business, the Department of Defense, and the Sundance Film Festival. She's won accolades from clients--KitchenAid, Kellogg, The North Face--for her writing, and she considers herself able to write on just about any subject except math, because (her words) "bleh."

Chelene is an amateur photographer, avid equestrian, uber avid reader, gardener, hopeful traveler, and mom of two humans. Her dog, cat, and chickens only like her for the food that she and her husband provide.

Sabrina Bell

DIRECTOR, LET ME SHINE! PRESCHOOL
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Sabrina has served as the Director of Zion’s Let Me Shine Christian Playschool and Preschool since 2022. She loves teaching kids about how much Jesus loves them.
 
Sabrina started at Let Me Shine as a Pre-K teacher in 2010. Before that she was a 6th grade school teacher for ten years.  She has loved working with children of various ages for most her life.  She was also the youth leader at Grace Lutheran Church in Bountiful for a couple of years.  
 
Sabrina loves rock climbing, doing Pilates, going on vacation, being by the beach and reading.  She adores animals of all kinds and would love to work in an animal sanctuary one day with exotic animals. She has two amazing young adult children, a son and a daughter.

Holly Graham

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, LET ME SHINE! PRESCHOOL
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Holly has served Zion’s Let Me Shine Christian Playschool and Preschool in a variety of roles since 2003. Her career goals never included working at a preschool in Utah, but God had other plans. Holly moved to Utah after completing her Master’s Degree in Sport Administration from the University of Richmond in Virginia. Her first job was in the University of Utah athletic department. She met her husband Doug in the weight room and they have two boys, Brandt and Rex.  
 
When her boys were toddlers, Holly and a few mothers at Zion formed a play group called “Little Lutherans,” which eventually led to the formation of Let Me Shine Preschool. After stopping work at the University to stay home with her boys, the director of Let Me Shine convinced Holly to work in the preschool office while her boys were attending preschool.  
 
Holly’s passions include reading, gardening, watching football and Hallmark movies, and going to the gym with friends.

John & Ashlee Mack

ZION CARETAKERS
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John and Ashlee began serving as Zion's caretakers in April 2025. Ashlee is currently working on her bachelors in nursing and John is currently working towards a Masters in athletic training. They love sports, being active and the outdoors, and are the best at board games and card games. They both are avid readers and love a good book.