Staff and Leadership

Mark Moser

Mark is the Pastor of New Life Presbyterian Church.

Mark plans and executes the preaching of the Word on Sunday mornings. He works with the Associate Pastor in shepherding the congregation. He also oversees the Adult Education and Discipleship programs, and lends oversight to Community Groups.

Mark and his wife Lise have known each other since elementary school, growing up in the small town of Kidron, Ohio. They started dating just before Mark graduated from high school in 1992 and left to study Electrical Engineering at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.  Lise followed Mark to OU two years later, and later they married and moved to Manassas, Virginia, where Mark worked as an engineer. Soon he transitioned into teaching computer programming in the IT sector, which he did for over 16 years, while also pursuing theological studies. Mark holds the Master of Divinity degree from Westminster Theological Seminary (‘07), and is a dissertation away from completing his PhD in Historical and Theological Studies at Westminster.

Mark spent twenty years volunteering in various churches and ministries, as well as over ten years in part-time studies at seminary, all in preparation for full-time ministry someday. That day finally came in January of 2015 when he came on staff at New Life, where he and his family had attended for over twelve years.  After a year as an Assistant Pastor, Mark became the Pastor of New Life Glenside on June 5, 2016.

Mark and Lise live in Glenside with their four children, Susanna, Boaz, Mary, and Ezra.

Nicholas Black

Director of Shepherding

Nicholas returned to New Life as the Director of Shepherding in October 2019. A long-time member of New Life, a Ruling Elder, and a prior staff member from 1993-2007, Nicholas has a passion for seeing people live for and follow Jesus. Nicholas oversees pastoral care, community groups, and intersects with the elders and diaconate to help shepherd the congregation.

Nicholas is married to Nancy for 40 years, and they live with their son, Jeremy, and a perky miniature schnauzer. Nicholas met Nancy at Messiah College in his first year in a class on C.S. Lewis. She immediately caught his eye, but the timing was wrong. After dropping out and then returning (he was on a 7-year college plan), they reconnected in Nancy’s last year. As love and the Lord would have it, she turned down her dreams for overseas mission work as a biology teacher and stayed around in Philly waiting until Nicholas finally graduated. They married in 1980.

They also have a daughter, Julia, who has blessed them with two grandchildren, turning their older years into new-found joy and wonder.

Nicholas graduated from Westminster Theological Seminary in 1989 after Nancy finished her graduate work in Dietetics at Drexel University, where she continues to work as a Registered Dietitian at Abington Jefferson Hospital.

Jason Peterson

Director of Youth Ministries

Jason is the Director of Youth Ministries where he has the amazing privilege of walking along side students as together we seek to know Christ and to love others.

Born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, he graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in exercise and sport science. At age 15, he started working for Utah’s Hogle Zoo selling cotton candy. Over the years, he worked his way up, finishing his career 20 years later as the Director of Development.

In 2007, he came to Glenside to attend Westminster Theological Seminary, where he received his masters of divinity in 2012. It was during seminary that he first began volunteering with the youth in junior high. It didn’t take him long to figure out that the Lord was calling him to shepherding and caring for young people. He’s been happily fulfilling that calling at New Life since September 2009.

Beatrice (Bea) Galloway

Director of Children’s Ministries

Ben Thompson

Assistant Pastor — Young Adult and Community Group Ministries

Alden Groves

Outreach Coordinator

Caitlyn Valla

Jr. High Ministry Leader

Peter Kratz

Sr. High Ministry Leader

Sarah Morris

Worship Service Manager

Dan Johnson

Communications Specialist

 

Bob McInnes

Church Administrator

Martha Kepple

Administrative Assistant

Jan Timlin

Receptionist

Nadine Constantine

Children’s Ministry Administrative Assistant

Ed Spector

Facility Manager

Andree Seu Peterson

Custodian


Elders

Elders must watch diligently over the flock committed to their charge, that no corruption of doctrine or of morals enter therein. They must exercise government and discipline, and take oversight not only of the spiritual interests of the…church. All those duties which private Christians are bound to discharge by the law of love are especially incumbent upon them by divine vocation, and are to be discharged as official duties. They should pray with and for the people, being careful and diligent in seeking the fruit of the preached Word among the flock (PCA Book of Church Order, paragraph 8-3).

  • Nicholas Black, Ardsley, PA (Pastoral Care Oversight Committee Chair)
  • Luke Brown, Willow Grove, PA
  • Scott Dirksen, Glenside, PA (Finance Committee Chair)
  • Bruce Johnson, Upper Dublin, PA
  • Stephen Kim, Dresher, PA (Facility Committee Chair)
  • Vince Pellerito, Glenside, PA
  • Steve Ritter, Willow Grove, PA (Discipleship Ministries Oversight Committee Chair)
  • Jim Spaulding, Upper Dublin, PA
  • John Timlin, Jenkintown, PA (Personnel Committee Chair)
  • Ken Wilson, Philadelphia, PA
  • Kurt Wood, Abington, PA

Deacons & Deaconesses

Deacons minister to those in need, to the sick, to the friendless, and to any who may be in distress. It is their duty also to develop the grace of liberality in the members of the church, to devise effective methods of collecting the gifts of the people, and to distribute these gifts among the objects to which they are contributed. (PCA Book of Church Order, paragraph 9-2.)

Deacons

  • Josh Chapman, Lafayette Hill, PA (Chairman)
  • Ed Coley, Glenside, PA
  • John Hagerty, Glenside, PA
  • Bret Johnson, Dresher, PA
  • Dave Sellers, Lafayette Hill, PA
  • Nelson Shane, Warminster, PA
  • Alan Smith, Ambler, PA

Deaconesses

  • Cara Clark, Philadelphia, PA
  • Rita Harris, Willow Grove, PA
  • Jeri Johnson, Dresher, PA
  • Peggy McManus, Oreland, PA (Mercy Coordinator)
  • Annah Mwaria, Willow Grove, PA
  • Beth Stonehouse, Hatboro, PA