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Our Ministerial Staff
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Pastor - Glenn Jago |
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Growing
up in Lansdale, Glenn graduated from Calvary Baptist Christian Day
School in 1977. After four years at Pensacola Christian College in
Pensacola, Florida, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Bible
with a minor in Biblical Greek language. In 1981 he returned to Lansdale
and graduated from the Calvary Baptist Theological Seminary with a
Master of Divinity degree.
Glenn
has served as youth pastor, in Florida and Georgia prior to moving
to Maryland to start a new church in the Ocean City area. In
1992,
Glenn accepted a position as the college Greek Professor at Pensacola
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In 1995, Glenn became senior pastor at the First Baptist
Church of Cantonment located in the suburbs of Pensacola. In January
of 2001, Glenn accepted the call to be the senior pastor of the
Church of the Open Door. Glenn and his wife, Tammy, have three
children: Elysha (now married to Jeff Wahlberg), Ethan, and Alexandra.
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Family Pastor -
Bryant Geating
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Bryant
has a B.A. in English from LaSalle University in Philadelphia and
an M.A. in Communications out of Regent University in Virginia Beach.
Bryant has also taken several courses toward a M.Div. at Bethel Seminary
of the East in Dresher, Pennsylvania. In 1988 Bryant accepted his
first youth ministry position at Bethlehem United Methodist Church
in Thornton, PA. In 1992 he began leading the youth for the next nine
years at Chelten Baptist Church in Dresher, PA.
The biggest part of
Bryant’s
life is his wife of nearly 20 years, Lilan, and five children,
John
, Joshua, Christina, Faith, and Katherine. John attends PBU, Joshua
& Christina attend school in
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Abington School District, while Faith & Katherine
attend Open Door Christian
Academy. Together,
they have been at COD since November of 2002, where Bryant’s
primary responsibility was discipleship and evangelism of the teenagers
before he started in the Family
Pastor/Visitation position in 2007. Full-time
Drama Ministry is where Bryant started in ministry, leading The
Parable Players out of Brooklyn, New York for three years. Before
that, sports were a big part of Bryant’s life, running on
the track teams at Abington High School and LaSalle University.
His favorite thing to do is anything with his family, especially
if that includes rock climbing, basketball or bicycling. Many
passages
of scripture are among his favorites, including Matthew 5-7, Romans
8 and Genesis 1-2. |
Administrative
Pastor - Herb
Hinsch |
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Born and raised in a
modest Christian home on Long Island, NY, Herb was saved when he
was young and dedicated his life to the Lord at a Billy Graham Crusade
in Madison Square Garden. A scholarship to General Motors Institute
led him to begin his career in engineering and management with General
Motors. He was then led into the book printing and binding industry.
After years in industry and various activities in his church, the
Lord called Herb to seminary training, into pastoral ministry, and
then into the field of Christian publishing as executive vice-president
of operations with Concordia Publishing House in St. Louis, MO. From
there Herb’s life took a dramatic turn and God brought him
through many struggles, strengthened his faith and set him on a new
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brought him to Church of the Open Door. He and his
wife, Toni, live in Willow Grove, PA. When not serving in various
ministries at COD, they love to hike, bike or spending time at Bible
Conferences at Americas Keswick and Harvey Cedars. They have six
children and two grandchildren scattered around the world. |
Youth
Director - Jeff Wahlberg |
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Jeff graduated
from Calvary Baptist in 2002 as a Basketball State Champion. He then
went on to, and graduated from, Clearwater Christian College ("CCC")
where he was a Church Ministry Major.
While at CCC, Jeff played basketball and served as Class Chaplin,
Dorm Hall Leader, and Devotional Leader. He has worked at Camp Calvary
in Burnville, PA where his father is the Camp Director.
On January 6, 2007, Jeff married Elysha Jago (Glenn and Tammy's daughter).
He started his position as Youth Director in January, 2007. |
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Music
Director - Cindy
Matthews |
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Cindy was born and raised
in the Dayton, Ohio area. Growing up in a Christian home, she was
exposed to the Gospel at an early age and accepted the Lord as her
Savior at age seven. She began her musical training with piano lessons
and at age nine began playing the flute in the school band. This
continued through high school where she was involved in several musical
ensembles. In 1976 she graduated from Dayton Christian High School
and later that year joined a Christian touring group, “The
Internationals”, singing and playing flute till 1978. After
this, she entered Wright State University in Dayton and graduated
with a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education in 1982. In September
of 1982, Cindy married David Matthews and they
began serving
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at Faith Community Church in Roslyn, PA. While raising their three
sons, Jonathan, Andrew,
and Tyler, Cindy has been involved in church music and teaching in
Christian schools for the last 25 years. She & David
became members of Church of the Open Door in 2002. In addition to
being the music director at COD, Cindy also teaches music part-time
at Valley Christian School in Huntingdon Valley, PA |
Our history of Pastors is as follows:
| Dr. Merril MacPherson |
1936 - 1949 |
| Dr. Jack Murray |
1950 - 1960 |
| Rev Milton Achey |
1961 - 1965 |
| Rev Idwal Thomas |
1965 - 1966 |
| Rev Richard Coons |
1966 - 1977 |
| Rev John Emmans |
1977 - 1985 |
| Rev Paul Hatmacher |
1986 - 1993 |
| Rev Dave Rogers |
1995 - 1999 |
| Rev Glenn Jago |
2001 - |
This list does not include interim Pastors
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