Staff and Leadership
At New Life Presbyterian Church several pastors share the duties that are often the responsibility of a single pastor. In addition, elders work alongside the pastors in praying for, encouraging, and teaching members of the congregation. The deacons lead the congregation in extending mercy to any who are in need—the sick, the friendless, and others in distress.
Pastor Biographies
Marc Davis
Shepherding Pastor
Marc Davis oversees the pastoral care structure of the church, which has as the center of its strategy a network of small community groups that meet in people’s homes. He also leads New Life in welcoming visitors into our church family and in attending to special pastoral needs.
Marc is an Abington native and became part of New Life as a child, together with his family, in 1978. He graduated from Abington High School (1986), the University of Virginia (1990), and Westminster Theological Seminary (1997).
Marc met his wife Susan at the University of Virginia, and they were married in 1992; they currently live in Roslyn with their three very interesting children, Nathaniel, Maggie, and Owen. Marc discerned a call to ministry while a college student; after ten years of working in the community at Arcadia University and active membership in the local church, he was invited to begin pastoral work at New Life.
David Goneau
Pastor for Outreach Ministry
Following New Life’s interest in reaching more substantively into our Community, David will take the lead in this area. He will also lend leadership and oversight in mercy and missions outreach ventures.
David and his wife Anne met at Messiah College. They graduated in 1996 and were married in 1997. They have three children: Caleb, born in 2001; Caitlyn, born in 2004; and their youngest Christopher, born in 2005.
David attended Westminster Theological Seminary from 1997-2001, receiving the MDiv degree. Over the course of the next two years, through dark trials and uncertainty, God made it abundantly clear that He was calling Dave to pastoral ministry.
Sean Roberts
Director of Student Ministries
Sean directs the youth ministry at New Life—leading the Senior High group and providing oversight to the Junior High.
Sean attended Westminster Theological Seminary, graduating in May 2009, receiving the MDiv degree.
His goal as Student Ministries director is to help young adults develop and strengthen a vibrant relationship with God and each other.
Sean and the other lay youth leaders desire to equip teenagers to interact with Scripture and apply it to their worldview
Steve Smallman
Assistant Pastor
Steve is supposed to be “retired,” but he loves ministry and is serving New Life as an Assistant Pastor—meaning he serves wherever needed, consistent with his other ministry commitments. He is teaching in Adult Ed and helps with preaching, discipleship and shepherding.
Steve has served in pastoral ministry for over 40 years, most of that time as Pastor of McLean Presbyterian Church in McLean, VA. He came to Philadelphia in 1997 to serve with World Harvest Mission and is currently a teacher for CityNet Ministries in Philadelphia. He has also written several books and booklets, including the workbook used here for preparing young people to make a profession of faith. He enjoys involvement with missions and shepherding young pastors. (You can learn more about his writing at his website: http://www.birthlineministries.com)
Steve and Sandy met at college (Bob Jones University) where they married in 1961. They have four adult children and eleven grandchildren. They live in Dresher.
Terry Traylor
Pastor
Terry was installed as Pastor of New Life on Sunday, September 11, 2005. In 1977, Terry started at Westminster Seminary in Glenside, and he and his wife Susan became members of New Life Church when it was meeting in the Abington YMCA.
Westminster opened the first-ever extension seminary in Miami two years later, and Terry went there with the first class to finish his theological studies. He joined with a Jamaican classmate to start a Jamaican ministry during his first year in Miami, and out of it came the International Community Church (then OPC). Terry became a church planter for this work and stayed about three years before leaving the work with his Jamaican partner. The Lord then led him to church planting for the PCA in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, where he planted what is now called Grace Church of McAllen and Covenant Church of Harlingen. He stayed with Covenant Church for 10 years, spending 12 years altogether in South Texas. In late 1994, the Lord opened an opportunity for him in church planting in Raleigh, NC, and in the 10 years Terry was in Raleigh he was instrumental in planting five churches.
Terry and Susan have three grown children and one teenager, Greg, who is in his first year at Penn State.
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.)
Mike Andrews | Dresher, PA
Nicholas Black | Ardsley, PA
Lawrence Bower | Glenside, PA
Marc Davis | Roslyn, PA
Scott Dirksen | Glenside, PA
Clint Files | Huntingdon Valley, PA
Larry Graybill | Erdenheim, PA
Douglas Green | Glenside, PA
Bruce Johnson | Willow Grove, PA
Stephen Kim | Dresher, PA
Ron Lusk | Wyncote, PA
Bob Lyon | Glenside, PA
Dan Macha | Elkins Park, PA
Stas Nicholaides | North Hills, PA
Darryl Rearson | Dresher, PA
Steve Ritter | Willow Grove, PA
Jim Spaulding | Glenside, PA
John Timlin | Jenkintown, PA
Terry Traylor (Moderator) | Glenside, PA
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.)
Rob Blake | Roslyn, PA
Josh Chapman | (Chairman) Glenside, PA
Ed Coley | Glenside, PA
Bob Custer, Jr. | Horsham, PA
David Douds | Glenside, PA
John Hagerty | Glenside, PA
Bret Johnson | Roslyn, PA
Dennis Reidenbach | Glenside, PA
Nelson Shane | Warminster, PA
Alan Smith | Ambler, PA
Tom Tomer | Roslyn, PA
Deaconesses
Mary Blake | Roslyn, Pa
Cara Clark | Philadelphia, Pa
Martha Cochran | Glenside, PA
Jeri Johnson | Dresher, PA
Judi Lemay-Lusk | Wyncote, Pa
Karen Schoch | Glenside, Pa
Roberta Taylor | Blue Bell, PA
Vicki Torson | Warminster, PA