Bill Smith
Stated Supply
Day off: Monday
Bill is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church of America (PCA) and has lived in and around the Philadelphia area most of his life. He has pastored several different churches, been a faculty member and counselor at the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation, taught practical theology at various seminaries and authored a number of books and booklets. Bill and his wife Sally have been married for over three decades and have three adult, married children. Bill enjoys being with his family, rehabbing his home, gardening, cooking, and reading, especially novels. He is regularly captured by the unexpected ways that God engages people in scripture and loves unpacking those interactions so that modern people can experience Christ’s grace and kindness in the messiness of their own lives.
Ben Thompson
Pastor for KidsLife & Youth Ministries
Day off: Monday
Ben Thompson is assistant pastor, previously overseeing Community Groups and helping oversee Sr. High Ministries. He was also a campus minister with the CCO at Arcadia University. He has the privilege of walking alongside of Sr. High students, college students, young adults, and members of all ages and life stages as they grow in their faith and engage in community with fellow believers.
Ben grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and earned a Bachelors in Christian Studies from Grand Canyon University in 2014. For 3 years, Ben worked at Grand Canyon University as an Instructional Assistant in the Department of Theology. Ben moved to Philadelphia in 2017 to begin the Masters of Divinity program at Westminster Theological Seminary. It was during Seminary that he began volunteering with the Sr. High ministries. In 2019, Ben joined staff to oversee Connect, our ministry for college students and young adults. In 2020, Ben began working full time with the CCO ministering to college students at Arcadia University. In the Spring of 2021, Ben graduated from seminary and in Fall of 2022, Ben was ordained and installed as an assistant pastor at New Life.
Jason Peterson
Executive Director
Day off: Thursday
Jason, long the Director of Youth Ministries, where he has the amazing privilege of walking along side students as together we seek to know Christ and to love others.
Born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, he graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in exercise and sport science. At age 15, he started working for Utah’s Hogle Zoo selling cotton candy. Over the years, he worked his way up, finishing his career 20 years later as the Director of Development.
In 2007, he came to Glenside to attend Westminster Theological Seminary, where he received his masters of divinity in 2012. It was during seminary that he first began volunteering with the youth in junior high. It didn’t take him long to figure out that the Lord was calling him to shepherding and caring for young people. He’s been happily fulfilling that calling at New Life since September 2009.
Beatrice (Bea) Galloway
Director of Children’s Ministries, Jr. High Ministry Leader
Day off: Monday
Luke Humphrey
Young Adults Ministry Leader
Sarah Morris
Worship Director
Dan Johnson
Communications Specialist
Greg Raysor
Interim Church Administrator
Thomas Blake
Summer Administrative Assistant
Mark Mumbauer
Facilities Manager
Day off: Monday
Dave Sellers
Deacon Coordinator
Nadine Constantine
KidsLife Director’s Assistant
Deborah Knox
KidsLife Administrative Assistant
Andrée Seu Peterson
Custodian
Carl Richards
Facilities Assistant
Elders
Elders must watch diligently over the flock committed to their charge, that no corruption of doctrine or of morals enter therein. They must exercise government and discipline, and take oversight not only of the spiritual interests of the…church. All those duties which private Christians are bound to discharge by the law of love are especially incumbent upon them by divine vocation, and are to be discharged as official duties. They should pray with and for the people, being careful and diligent in seeking the fruit of the preached Word among the flock (PCA Book of Church Order, paragraph 8-3).
- Nicholas Black, Ardsley, PA
- Luke Brown, Willow Grove, PA
- Scott Dirksen, Glenside, PA
- Bruce Johnson, Upper Dublin, PA
- Stephen Kim, Dresher, PA
- Vince Pellerito, Glenside, PA
- Steve Ritter, Willow Grove, PA
- Jim Spaulding, Upper Dublin, PA
- Ken Wilson, Philadelphia, PA
- Kurt Wood, Abington, PA
The Diaconate
Deacons minister to those in need, to the sick, to the friendless, and to any who may be in distress. It is their duty also to develop the grace of liberality in the members of the church, to devise effective methods of collecting the gifts of the people, and to distribute these gifts among the objects to which they are contributed. (PCA Book of Church Order, paragraph 9-2.)
Deacons
- Josh Chapman, Lafayette Hill, PA (Chairman)
- Ed Coley, Glenside, PA
- John Hagerty, Glenside, PA
- Bret Johnson, Dresher, PA
- Jonathan Kratz, Horsham, PA
- Dave Sellers, Lafayette Hill, PA (Mercy Coordinator)
- Nelson Shane, Warminster, PA
- Alan Smith, Glenside, PA
Diaconal Assistants
- Rita Harris, Willow Grove, PA
- Jeri Johnson, Dresher, PA
- Peggy McManus, Oreland, PA
- Annah Mwaria, Willow Grove, PA
- Beth Stonehouse, Hatboro, PA
- Cara Ternes, Abington, PA
- Vitaly Ford, Willow Grove, PA