Like many answering the call to ministry, I am a mid-life career changer… having worked for a couple of decades in both the non-profit and corporate worlds. My last pre-ministry job was as the Director of Learning for a lower Manhattan multimedia firm, teaching Fortune 500 clients web and multimedia design. After sitting with a traumatized co-worker for several hours on 9/11, I decided to return to school and to say yes to God. There are only so many years one can play the Jonah!!!
I completed my BA at Hunter College in 2005, double majoring in English (Language, Literature and Criticism with a focus on Medieval to Renaissance British Literature) and Studio Art.
In June 2008 I graduated from Harvard Divinity School with a Master in Divinity degree and was the Tanenbaum Fellow for Inter-religious Practice at Vassar College for a year before beginning congregational ministry in Fall 2009. I currently serve as Pastor and Teacher to The Park Church in Elmira, New York.
I have been politically active for many years, as both a citizen and as a pastor. I enjoy the arts, sports, my Golden Retriever (named Oscar after the Salvadoran saint) … and this amazing crazy inspiring body we call the church! Like so many, I struggle to live with integrity in a world of false values and temptation, and pray that my sermons and ramblings might, at times, help others on their path.
Blessings
Gary