THE ALLIANCE CHURCH
"We will be a caring church ...every member a minister reflecting Christ"
Rev. Palmer L. Zerbe, "Bud" to friends and family, is serving as Pastor of Visitation & Senior Ministries. He came as our interim pastor in October 2004 then served as our Senior Pastor from September 2005 until April 2009. He is a retired Superintendent of the Western PA District of the C&MA. His wife, Shirley, is also very active in our church. They have five adult children.
Pastor Doug Ellenberger serves as our Senior Pastor. He moved here in November 2008. He has served in the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA) for 21 years. He graduated from The Kings College with a degree in Education and taught school for ten years before entering the ministry. In 1984 and '85 he taught at our Alliance Christian School. His wife Robin is an R. N. and they have four sons, Heath, Travis, Ryan and Ross.
Charles Smith is our youth director. Charles has been involved with our youth ministries since 2000. His is a civil engineer by trade and a youth director by God's calling. He is married to Laura Barker-Smith and they have two daughters.
Mrs. Edith Mathias is the Office Manager/Secretary of our church. She started attending in 1991 because of our Christian School. She worked part-time under the former secretary for four years. When Mrs. Jackson retired in 2004, Edith became the full-time pastorial secretary. She is married to Jeff and they have two college-age children.
