Pastor Jeff Weber
I was appointed to serve at Reeders UMC by the United Methodist Conference beginning July 1, 2020. My wife Audrey and I are natives of Monroe County, and some in the congregation knew our parents, and some even went to high school with us. I had an eclectic education and career spanning the U.S. Army, staff on the Pennsylvania Senate, professor at East Stroudsburg University (ESU), and later an administrator at ESU. Audrey has been a little more consistent, having worked in an abstract agency, then as a legal secretary. One constant has always been Jesus Christ, and His church, which for me has been the Methodist denomination, while Audrey started Baptist and became Methodist after we were married. Audrey and I have been youth group directors, Sunday School teachers, Soup Kitchen directors, delegates to Annual Conferences, and I have been a certified lay speaker since 1991, and a certified lay minister since 2013. I have filled-in for pastors when they were on vacation or sick, at Methodist churches throughout the conference. So that is a brief summary of Audrey and I, but what I want to really focus on is you and Reeders UMC.
All of Scripture speaks of our relationship with God. The foundational part of that relationship is that God knows us as individuals. Psalm 139 summarizes it well as the psalmist speaks of God knowing us even before we were born, and that God “knit us together in my mother’s womb” and that we were each “wonderfully made.” That God “knows when I sit and when I rise,” and “before a word is on my tongue” God knows “it completely.” Each of you have a wonderful story of how God has knit you together, and of the love that God has shown you. I am looking forward to connecting with each of you and getting to know your story and where you are in your relationship with Christ. From the little that I have seen during the transition, the love of Christ shines strongly in so many at Reeders UMC, and Audrey and I are blessed to join into the Reeders United Methodist Church family in its ministry of making and growing disciples for Jesus Christ.
I was appointed to serve at Reeders UMC by the United Methodist Conference beginning July 1, 2020. My wife Audrey and I are natives of Monroe County, and some in the congregation knew our parents, and some even went to high school with us. I had an eclectic education and career spanning the U.S. Army, staff on the Pennsylvania Senate, professor at East Stroudsburg University (ESU), and later an administrator at ESU. Audrey has been a little more consistent, having worked in an abstract agency, then as a legal secretary. One constant has always been Jesus Christ, and His church, which for me has been the Methodist denomination, while Audrey started Baptist and became Methodist after we were married. Audrey and I have been youth group directors, Sunday School teachers, Soup Kitchen directors, delegates to Annual Conferences, and I have been a certified lay speaker since 1991, and a certified lay minister since 2013. I have filled-in for pastors when they were on vacation or sick, at Methodist churches throughout the conference. So that is a brief summary of Audrey and I, but what I want to really focus on is you and Reeders UMC.
All of Scripture speaks of our relationship with God. The foundational part of that relationship is that God knows us as individuals. Psalm 139 summarizes it well as the psalmist speaks of God knowing us even before we were born, and that God “knit us together in my mother’s womb” and that we were each “wonderfully made.” That God “knows when I sit and when I rise,” and “before a word is on my tongue” God knows “it completely.” Each of you have a wonderful story of how God has knit you together, and of the love that God has shown you. I am looking forward to connecting with each of you and getting to know your story and where you are in your relationship with Christ. From the little that I have seen during the transition, the love of Christ shines strongly in so many at Reeders UMC, and Audrey and I are blessed to join into the Reeders United Methodist Church family in its ministry of making and growing disciples for Jesus Christ.