The Settled Pastor Search Committee is pleased to announce we are recommending that the Second Congregational Church, UCC of Wilton, NH extend a Call to the Reverend Gary W. Klingsporn, Ph.D. to be our Settled Pastor.
Candidate Sunday
Part of the process is Candidate Sunday, on May 14. Reverend Gary will conduct our worship service after which an all-church meeting will be held for the congregation to vote on extending the call. Please make a point to be there for this important vote.
Below is Reverend Gary’s biography, in part:
Reverend Dr. Gary Klingsporn recently retired from full-time parish ministry, having served the past twelve years as Senior Minister of the First Congregational Church in Nantucket, MA. Gary and his wife Debra live in Manchester, NH.
Earlier in his career, while a graduate student, he served Baptist, Presbyterian, and Lutheran churches. In 1988 he accepted a call to Colonial Church of Edina a large Congregational church in Minneapolis where he served for twenty years as Teaching Minister and Minister of Spiritual Formation. As a senior member of that multiple staff church he engaged in all aspects of pastoral ministry including teaching, worship, preaching, and pastoral care.
Rev. Gary did his doctoral work at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where he received his Ph.D. in New Testament studies in 1985. He has taught biblical studies in academic settings and served as General Editor of the multi-volume book series The Library of Distinctive Sermons.
Reverend Gary is excited about continuing his next call to ministry as a part-time settled pastor, doing what he loves most — preaching and teaching, loving and caring for people, and equipping God’s people to be ministers to the world.
Note: Before May 14, you can listen to some of Reverend Gary’s sermons on the website for First Congregational Church in Nantucket.