ALTAMONT — Melanie L. Tuxbury has been appointed Associate for Youth and Intergenerational Ministries at the Altamont Reformed Church. She will be formally commissioned on Sunday, Nov. 3, during the 10:30 a.m. worship service.

Tuxbury will provide administrative support for the development, implementation, and promotion of comprehensive ministries for students in fourth grade through high school at the church. She will encourage the integration of children and youth into the life, worship, and work of the congregational family through Christian fellowship, learning, and service.

“The Altamont community is welcome to join us on Nov. 3 to meet Melanie as she begins her vital work in service to the youth and families of the village,” said Rev. Bob Luidens, in a release from the church.

Tuxbury has served as the director of music at several area churches, including Pawling Avenue United Methodist Church and Hope United Methodist Church in Troy. She also recently served as the superintendent of religious education at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Green Island and as the program director of Creativity Camp at Skye Farms Camp in Warrensburg.

A former foreign-language teacher in the Guilderland Central School District, Tuxbury holds a master’s degree in Spanish from the University at Albany and a bachelor’s degree in French from the State University of New York College at Fredonia.

She and her family live in Guilderland.