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Karen Bergey (she/her), Associate Pastor Dave Greiser (he/him), Lead Pastor Jennifer Svetlik (she/her), Director of Children's Faith Formation George Gaugler (he/him), Facilities Manager Andrew Zetts (he/him), Associate Pastor Brad Alderfer (he/him), Church Administrator |
Pastoral Team
Lead Pastor Dave Greiser (he/him) has been a Mennonite minister since 1980. He's served in churches of all sizes, and from rural to inner city. He feels great meaning in connecting with people in the joyous and painful intersections of life, seeking to find and name the presence of Jesus in each circumstance. Dave loves the weekly adventure of listening to a text of scripture and creating a sermon that speaks to a particular group of people at a specific time and place.
Dave grew up in a working class home in Hatfield, PA. After college and seminary, he served as pastor of North Park Mennonite Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Then he was invited to help to start a new church in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia. West Philadelphia grew into a strong congregation with participants from fourteen countries. Following graduate study, Dave became the preaching minister at Souderton Mennonite while teaching preaching at Palmer Seminary. For a season, he directed the Pastoral Ministries program at Hesston College in Kansas. Most recently he was pastor at North Baltimore Mennonite Church and a core faculty member at St. Mary's Ecumenical Institute-St. Mary's Seminary before beginning leadership at Salford in 2021.
Dave has been married to Anita Nussbaum Greiser since 1979. Anita is a retired school teacher. Anita and Dave have a daughter and a son, both married. They have six grandchildren. Dave watches movies, follows all the Philadelphia sports teams, relishes international foods, and has been known to expend adrenaline jumping out of an airplane or riding in an indy car. He reads philosophy books and Sports Illustrated with equal enthusiasm.
Dave grew up in a working class home in Hatfield, PA. After college and seminary, he served as pastor of North Park Mennonite Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Then he was invited to help to start a new church in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia. West Philadelphia grew into a strong congregation with participants from fourteen countries. Following graduate study, Dave became the preaching minister at Souderton Mennonite while teaching preaching at Palmer Seminary. For a season, he directed the Pastoral Ministries program at Hesston College in Kansas. Most recently he was pastor at North Baltimore Mennonite Church and a core faculty member at St. Mary's Ecumenical Institute-St. Mary's Seminary before beginning leadership at Salford in 2021.
Dave has been married to Anita Nussbaum Greiser since 1979. Anita is a retired school teacher. Anita and Dave have a daughter and a son, both married. They have six grandchildren. Dave watches movies, follows all the Philadelphia sports teams, relishes international foods, and has been known to expend adrenaline jumping out of an airplane or riding in an indy car. He reads philosophy books and Sports Illustrated with equal enthusiasm.
Associate Pastor Andrew Zetts (he/him) began attending Salford in 2013 and became a member of the congregation in 2016. He first encountered Anabaptism and Mennonites while an undergraduate at Eastern University, and Salford was instrumental in helping him to learn about, grow in, and commit to living out his faith in the Anabaptist tradition. Andrew served as a secondary education teacher for nine years after his undergraduate work—six years in the School District of Jenkintown and three years at Dock Mennonite Academy—and earned his M.A. in History from Villanova University in 2018.
Andrew felt called to ministry since high school and throughout his teaching career he found ways to support the Church, nurture the faith of others, and be a witness to the Good News in a variety of ways which included serving as a youth sponsor at Salford for six years and being a co-chair of the Justice and Peace Committee for five years. In 2022 he answered the call to pastoral ministry and began his current role at Salford. Andrew’s primary pastoral responsibilities include caring for Salford’s Mennonite Youth Fellowship, which includes sixth through twelfth graders, and post-secondary young adults as well as making outreach connections that invite the congregation to be a proactive and responsive presence in our communities. In August 2023, Andrew will begin a Master of Divinity program at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary.
The Zetts family resides in Souderton where you can find them enjoying the outdoors, walking around downtown, or enjoying a potluck. In his free time, Andrew enjoys playing and writing music, watching baseball, and reading.
Andrew felt called to ministry since high school and throughout his teaching career he found ways to support the Church, nurture the faith of others, and be a witness to the Good News in a variety of ways which included serving as a youth sponsor at Salford for six years and being a co-chair of the Justice and Peace Committee for five years. In 2022 he answered the call to pastoral ministry and began his current role at Salford. Andrew’s primary pastoral responsibilities include caring for Salford’s Mennonite Youth Fellowship, which includes sixth through twelfth graders, and post-secondary young adults as well as making outreach connections that invite the congregation to be a proactive and responsive presence in our communities. In August 2023, Andrew will begin a Master of Divinity program at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary.
The Zetts family resides in Souderton where you can find them enjoying the outdoors, walking around downtown, or enjoying a potluck. In his free time, Andrew enjoys playing and writing music, watching baseball, and reading.
Associate Pastor Karen Bergey (she/her) grew up in an Assemblies of God church and became Anabaptist-curious when attending Messiah College. Karen spent a few years with different companies in a marketing and corporate training capacity. She then took nearly 17 years to homeschool her two children up to high school. Karen and her family began attending Salford in 2017 and it felt like coming home. She started helping with some congregational care in the spring of 2022 and became an Associate Pastor in the fall of 2023. Karen and Blaine have been married since 1997 and live in Green Lane where they enjoy long walks, reading, gardening, and caring for a small collection of animal family members.
Staff
Jennifer Svetlik (she/her) serves as Director of Children's Faith Formation at Salford. She was born near Houston, Texas and spent a decade living in intentional community in Washington DC, before moving to Lansdale with her spouse Sheldon Good. She comes from a Catholic background and has an MA in Theology from Washington Theological Seminary. Jenn speaks Spanish, and is a Godly Play Core certified practitioner. She has two elementary school-aged children.