Our Pastors

 

 

/files/Images/About Us images/neilsmith_ 01_Resized_180x270.jpg Dr. Neil D. Smith, Senior Pastor

Neil has been the Senior Pastor of Faith since 1997. A western Pennsylvania native, he is a 1977 graduate of Grove City College and a 1983 graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary (but please don’t hold this against him!). He earned a Doctor of Ministry from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in 2007. Neil previously served churches in Altoona, PA (1986-1997) and Downingtown, PA (1983-1986).

Neil came to faith in Christ at a revival service in his home church at the age of eleven. He sensed a call from God to full-time ministry at the age of fourteen. He considers himself a blessed man to have the privilege to serve as Pastor of Faith.

Neil and his wife Mary Sue were married in 1977 and live in West Springfield. They are the parents of three children: Erin, Lindsay, and Nathan.

While he has adopted the Redskins and Nationals as his second-favorite football and baseball teams, respectively, he remains a loyal and devoted fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Pittsburgh Pirates, the teams he has followed since childhood.

 

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Rev. David Fischler, Pastor for Church Planting

David was born of Jewish parents in New Jersey. He became a Christian in college after reading the Bible for the first time. He was educated at Rutgers University and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and is currently a Doctor of Ministry student at Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry in Pennsylvania.

David spent over 22 years in the pastorate in North Carolina, serving churches in the United Methodist and Moravian denominations before coming to Faith Church in March of 2006. He has long dreamed of being a church planter, and was delighted when God called him to that work in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in 2006.

David and his wife of 26 years, Maryanne, have one daughter, Rebecca, who recently received her Master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin. David is an avid chess player, a life long baseball fan (go Braves!), a voracious reader of science fiction, an Internet blogger, a player of the autoharp, and an amateur student of astronomy and cosmology. Click here to visit David's blog.

  

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Rev. Robert (Bob) Barnett, Pastor for Outreach and Discipleship

Bob is passionate about introducing others to Jesus and helping them become real disciples who serve God in every area of their lives.  He received Jesus Christ as His Savior in 1980 when, through the witness of his wife, the Lord changed his heart to confess his sinfulness and respond to the gospel.  This began a life-changing and exciting relationship with God.

Bob graduated from the University of Louisiana at Monroe in 1978 and served as a US Army officer and as a product release manager in the software industry. He earned a Master of Divinity from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in 1999 and a Master of Theology in 2002. Bob previously ministered as an associate staff representative with The Navigators (1988-97), at Gordon-Conwell’s Mockler Center for Faith and Ethics in the Workplace (2000-04), and as an intern/small groups coordinator at a Presbyterian church in Massachusetts (2004-05). He joined the pastoral team at Faith Church in 2005.

Bob and Theresa have been happily married since 1978 and now live in the Kingstowne area of Alexandria, VA. They have three grown daughters, Lisa, Jenn (married to Robert Polen), and Krista.  Bob enjoys reading history and biography, watching old movies - with pizza! - and hiking around the trails and historic sites of Virginia.

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