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Reflections about knowing Jesus, spiritual growth and life on the planet.

            By Greg Wiest, pastor and 

neophyte blogger.

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Books Recommended

Celebration of Discipline-Richard Foster

The Purpose Driven Life-Rick Warren

Mere Christianity-C. S. Lewis

Death in the City-Francis Schaeffer

Web Sites

www.Bible.org

www.family.org

www.pfrenewal.org

Greg's blog will now be at the following address:

HTTP://deepwaterconversations.blogspot.com/

At this address you will be able to respond to blogs and I will have more convenience in posting.

Greg

December 10th 2007

We are in the midst of redoing our website, so hang on for more blogging after the new year.

Merry Christmas.

Greg

Bio

I was born in Southern California on a Naval Base in the early 60's.  Since my father was a career naval officer, my family moved around quite a bit while I was growing up.  Over the years I have lived in California, Alaska, Maryland, Bermuda, Virginia, North Carolina and now Pennsylvania.  I and my brother and sister grew up in a Christian home; my parents always found a church for us to attend wherever we lived.

    I personally became a follower of Jesus Christ at the age of 5 while a attending a Good News Club in our neighborhood.  As a teenager, I recommitted my life to Christ and grew in my faith through involvement in Young Life and my church.  I owe much of my spiritual development to my Young Life leader.

   I attended college at Virginia Tech, where I met my wife at the freshmen mixer during the first week of classes.  Laura and I were involved in Campus Crusade for Christ and then in Young Life leadership.  We both graduated with business degrees .(We were married the summer that we graduated)  Following school, I worked in insurance and Laura worked as a CPA.  Our home church was Third Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Va.

    After college I felt the call to ministry and through the guidance of our pastor I enrolled at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia in 1989.  I attended Seminary and graduated in 1992.  Our son  was born while we were in seminary. (Before he was able to speak,  attended Greek class with me)  Our first call to ministry was to Pineland Presbyterian Church in Jacksonville, NC.  We ministered to the Church in North Carolina for 6 years during which our 2 daughters were born.  We were blessed at this church with numerical and spiritual growth.

     For  5 and 1/2 years we were at Union Presbyterian Church.  Here also we grew  in our faith and the church has grew as well.   My gifts in ministry are in the area of preaching and evangelism. I also have made a point to disciple people on a steady basis throughout my walk with Christ.  I have passion for sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with lost people showing them how to walk with the Lord.

     After serving at Union Presbyterian Church, God called me to be the pastor of Glade Run Presbyterian Church. I began serving Glade Run as Pastor beginning on January 13, 2004. My Goals for Glade Run are to establish a pattern of discipleship for all ages and to be more intentional about sharing Jesus Christ with folks who have never heard.