Meet The Pastor
Rev. John Bletsch
Pastor John Bletsch is a lifelong United Methodist who grew up in Youngstown, OH. He was a religion and psychology major at Mount Union College in Alliance, OH before going to Duke Divinity School for seminary.
For 20 years, Pastor John served as a pastor in the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church. He spent 4 years in Charlotte and then 16 years in Greensboro.
Pastor John and his wife, Rhonda, moved their family to Pennsylvania in 2014. Rhonda is the chair of the Theology Department at Eastern University, and Old Testament scholar, a university professor, and an author of a textbook on the Old Testament. She has also written numerous articles in the area of biblical studies.
Pastor John and Rhonda met while pursuing graduate studies at Duke University. They have been married for more than 20 years and have 3 sons: Jonah, Ethan, and Daniel.
Pastor John fully believes that our United Methodist heritage is one of the best ways to walk the path of discipleship as a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ. He loves teaching the Bible, as well as running, playing the guitar, and cooking. He also enjoys the same things as his 3 boys, which includes Legos, video games, comic books, superheroes, and science fiction stories.