 Pastor Steve's sermons and our Sunday bulletins are both posted on-line. Click here to find the listing of sermons. Generally, the sermons will be posted for two months.
Ottawa Presbyterian Church is proud to host Putnam County Habitat for Humanity. The office is in the rear of the church and meetings are held once a month. Just click on the logo to visit the website.
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Hi!
My name is Steve Elderbrock, and I've been serving as the pastor here at Ottawa Presbyterian Church since February, 2002. Before coming to Ottawa, I served as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in LeRoy, Minnesota for 5 years.
I was born and raised in Findlay, Ohio, and am a lifelong Presbyterian, although I took a few years "off" from organized religion during my college years. Speaking of which, I am a graduate of Denison University, where I received a double major in Philosophy and Cinema. After that, I tried my hand at philosophy in graduate school at Yale, but the world did not need one more mediocre philosopher. So then I packed all my belongings in my car and drove out to Los Angeles to seek my fortune in Hollywood. That, too, was not where God was calling me. So I returned to Ohio, got a master's degree in American history at Bowling Green State University, and while doing that someone whose opinion I trusted suggested that I should consider seminary to become a pastor. The idea at first seemed rather crazy to me, but after much prayer and reflection (and some help from Saint Augustine's Confession), I realized that becoming a pastor would pull together many of my passions and interests and experiences, which up until then had seemed random. I moved to Atlanta and received my Master of Divinity degree from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University.
That’s my story – so far. Thanks for reading it. And now my story is part of the larger story of Ottawa Presbyterian Church. If you’d like to be part of our story, and part of our family, here, please join us for worship or other activities sometime. I look forward to meeting you and hearing your story.
Other Church leaders In every Presbyterian church, there is a group called the "Session" which is composed of "elders." Together with the pastor, this group is responsible for overseeing all church programs and activities. OPC's Session currently has eight elders, with each elder serving a three-year term. Every year, two new elders will be chosen by the congregation to replace those elders whose terms are completed. Our current session members are listed below. Class of 2011--Paul Baransy, Arlene Cress, Jane Doepker Thanks for your years of faithful service! Class of 2012--Rick Barteck, Susan Schroeder, Jean Setser Class of 2013--Dee Beckman, Andee Parker
Class of 2014--Karl Hirzel, Nick Mitchell
Our church secretary is Andrea Mormon. She began her work in early December, 2010. Mike Kaufman is our church custodian, Beth Myers is our organist, and Chas Myers is our choir director. Janie Font is our financial secretary and Dave Crawfis is our treasurer. Pastor Steve Elderbrock leads our congregation. |
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