Throughout all of their pastorates, Mark and Barbara have been actively involved in their communities. For five years, Mark served as president of the Troy Rehabilitation and Improvement Program. The specific shape of congregational community ministry grows out of careful listening to community needs and capacities, and the history, resources and commitments of the congregation. The Session and congregation of Pasadena Presbyterian Church are working with Barbara and Mark to fashion that sense of new life and vision as it moves into a new era and a new millennium. We begin our ministry together in a most interesting and exciting time.
Society is in the midst of great change.
Our communities are becoming ever more racially and religiously diverse. Families are stressed to find time for each other and to cultivate values that enrich our common life. People are living longer with better health than at any time in our history. New generations bring new styles and questions, and a spiritual hunger has spread across the land. These times call for a new style of leadership between pastors and congregation that builds on the best each brings to the partnership.