| Since she ended her first term service as a PC(USA) mission worker in 1991, Brenda has continued to be active in mission. She has led many groups traveling to Ghana, Scotland, and Kenya, and she has conducted orientations for Africans coming to the United States as well as for Americans travelling to Kenya.
Brenda has served the church as a pastor and worked in several camp and conference ministries. She also taught classes in world religions and philosophy at Highland Community College in Freeport, Illinois, for five years.
Prior to her appointment to Kenya, Brenda was solo pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Oregon, Illinois. While in this position, she served on the Mission Committee of Blackhawk Presbytery developing a rotating system for training pastors, evangelists, elders, and deacons.
Brenda’s commitment to the ministry of camp and conference centers is long and varied. Between 1997 and 2001, Brenda was program director at the Stronghold Conference Center, a conference, retreat, and camping center of Blackhawk Presbytery. She was director of the Wildwood Christian Education Center in Cincinnati, Ohio; chaplain and interim program director of the Calvin Center in Hampton, Georgia. While serving as solo pastor of the Calvary Presbytery Church in York, Pennsylvania (1991 to 1995), she was also director of Donegal Camp and Conference Center, the outdoor Christian education ministry of the Presbytery of Donegal.
Brenda holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Millersville University in Millersville, Pennsylvania, and a Master of Divinity from Lancaster Theological Seminary in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Brenda was ordained to the ministry of Word and Sacrament on September 27, 1992. She is a minister member of Blackhawk Presbytery.
Birthday: August 18 |
