Announcing our new Interim Pastor
We are delighted to bring you all good news - the announcement of our new Interim Pastor! Our Interim Search Committee has been faithfully praying for God’s guidance in bringing the person He has called to our church. We are pleased to introduce you to the Rev. Dr. Linda Robinson.
Linda is from the Philadelphia area, and after spending her college years in Wisconsin, she returned to her home area here in the Northeast. She spent a number of years working in the corporate world, before she felt God’s call to full-time ministry. After graduating from Princeton Theological Seminary, she served in a number of church communities in Kansas and New Jersey. Linda has felt God’s specific calling in her life to help people develop prayer skills, especially contemplative prayer practices, and to help nurture people in their relationships with God. While serving as a Pastor, Linda continued to develop her skills as a spiritual guide and spiritual director - someone whose passion is to help guide people in their journeys with God. In her call to serve with the Upper Room Spiritual Center in Neptune, NJ, she has also had her own ministry, Grace Ministry, which provides retreats where people learn and practice different spiritual disciplines. Linda earned her Doctor of Ministry from San Francisco Theological Seminary with a focus on issues in pastoral and spiritual care.
In 2005 Linda returned to the Philadelphia area to serve the Presbytery of Philadelphia as the Associate Executive for Pastoral Ministry. In that role she had responsibility for the support and strengthening of pastoral leadership in their 135 congregations and oversight of the Presbytery’s Associate for Care of Ministers. She also provided the primary staff support to the Committee on Ministry, the Committee on Preparation for Ministry, the Conflict Management Team and the Interim Pastors’ Collegium.
Linda is happy and excited to be returning to congregational ministry. She is eager to serve as our Interim Pastor as we face a season of change and opportunity, preparing the way for new pastoral leadership. She makes her home in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, where in her free time she loves to relax with her cat, read books and dabble in a variety of creative arts (music, painting and crafting). She also hopes to find time to garden this spring and summer.
We are delighted to invite Linda to become a part of our church family. She will officially start on April 1st; her first Sunday with us will be Easter Sunday. We will have an opportunity to welcome Linda with a dinner hosted by the Deacons sometime in April. We encourage you to make every effort to introduce yourselves to her and make her feel welcome.
