Nancy E. Forsberg was born on August 5, 1922 in Jersey City and moved to Maplewood, New Jersey in 1926. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Denison University and worked as an educator in Ohio and worked at the YWCA In Connecticut. She graduated from Yale University School of Divinity in 1951 and was ordained the same year; she was one of only three women who graduated from the divinity school that year. She later graduated with a masters in education from New York University. She returned to Maplewood and became pastor of the First Congregational Church in Union, New Jersey, in 1967. While serving as pastor, Rev. Nancy became a leader in interfaith and interracial efforts; she is credited with helping to bring Holocaust studies into Union-area schools. She also led an interfaith Bus Ministry which brought groups of people on spiritually focused trips across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Israel. She served as the pastor of the First Congregational Church, now the Faith United Church of Christ, until her retirement in 2000. She died on April 5, 2008.