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Staff Rev. Paul Bembower
Paul Bembower born in the Appalachian Mountains of
Eastern Kentucky. His father was a National Missions missionary to the coalfields
of the He left college
(WKU) in his senior year to learn the craft of pipe organ construction with a
firm in He holds a Master of
Divinity degree from Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, and has
served churches in Metropolis, He is married to
Margaret Ann (Bader) Bembower, who he met while they were both students at Their son, Daniel,
is married to Anna McRoy Bembower and lives in Service to the
church runs in his genes at least as far back as his great-grandfather. In
his family tree are numerous ministers, elders, deacons, missionaries, and
the odd horse-thief. He has been active in three presbyteries and two
synods of the PCUSA. He presently a member of the Committee on Ministry of
our presbytery, the Church Order Committee of our synod, and am participating
in a consultation among the presbyteries and the synod on changing roles, staffing
patterns, and future ways of being the church. He has great
confidence in the future of the PCUSA, and of Farmington Presbyterian Church
in particular. He believes that God has given us each spiritual gifts to go
with our other talents and abilities, and calls us to exercise those gifts as
we live out our lives. When we are faithful to those gifts, they add to the
other aspects of living—work, play, learning, resting,
serving—and strengthen us at every turn. His hobbies are
tinkering, reading historical and science fiction, working with computers,
collecting old movies of certain types, and working on his house. Jan Valle, our church secretary, is the voice who answers our phone, and does all those little day-to-day things that are so helpful.
Regina
Brown is our recently married
Music/Children's Program Director. She teaches music at
Lavonne Limbaugh and Kathy Crocker play inspiring music during our services.
Wendy Soderlund has been our
newsletter editor since 1994 and web builder in 1998. Wendy and her
husband, Edward Pultz, teach the youth Sunday School class and are members of
the bell choir. Wendy works for East Missouri Community Action Agency's
Head Start program and volunteers with Habitat for Humanity.
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