As I begin serving as your interim pastor, I want to thank you for such a warm welcome. It was a special treat for me to have my wife and children with me on my first Sunday, September 2. We appreciated the reception following the worship service.

I am looking forward to my time with you as we prepare the way for calling a new pastor. I have been involved in intentional interim ministry for over a decade. I live in Cowansville, PA, and will be staying in the manse several nights a week while serving as your interim pastor.

Before coming to the Lewistown Church, I served as the interim pastor at Trinity Church, Butler. Prior to that, I was the interim pastor at Bell Memorial Church in Ellwood City. I have also served as the interim associate pastor for Graystone Church, Indiana, and the interim pastor for First Church, Clarion. While serving as the interim pastor for the yoke of Mount Zion Church, Templeton, and Concord Church, Dayton, I attended the interim pastor training program sponsored by the Presbyterian Church at Montreat in North Carolina.

My wife, Mary, and I live in Cowansville where she has been the pastor of Union First Presbyterian Church since 1979. Our son, Tim, is a graduate of Penn State and is working as a mechanical engineer for Westinghouse in the Pittsburgh area. His wife, Emily, teaches music in the Leechburg School District. Our daughter, Gloria, is a junior at Penn State majoring in mechanical engineering and a member of the Blue Band.

I have been active in my community in a number of ways. I managed several of my daughter’s little league teams (minor league baseball and senior girl’s softball) and spent a year umpiring. I have served as president of the local P.T.O. and as a board member for the Armstrong County chapter of the Red Cross.