Pastor Stoltzfus

Pastor Wendell was born in Ephrata, Pennsylvania.  His parents were Amish dairy farmers, but when Wendell was 9, the family sold their business to become missionaries to Germany. His parents would spend the next 25 years preaching and teaching the Gospel to the unsaved in that country.  When Wendell reached college age, he returned to the United States, thereupon enrolling at Gordon College in Massachusetts as a mathematics major.  Following college, he would return to missionary work, traveling to China to study Mandarin Chinese and teach English to the inhabitants there. It was during his work in China that he met his future wife, Priscilla, who was also engaged in missionary work there.  The two actually had met and worked together many years earlier at a Bible church in Lancaster County.  Upon returning from China, Wendell and Priscilla were married and, soon after, Wendell enrolled at Westminster Seminary, Philadelphia, graduating in the spring of 2000.

Wendell came to Covenant Church in 2004, after serving three years as a church planter in Pottstown, PA. Wendell and Priscilla have three children.

 

 Associate Pastor Ritter

Ross Ritter grew up in a suburb of Atlanta. He attended the University of Georgia, graduating in 2002 with a business degree. After college he moved to Macon, Georgia to work as the Office Manager of a PCA church. During this time he met Margaret Anne, who had moved to Macon to work in development with a Christian adoption agency. Margaret Anne grew up in Chattanooga, TN and attended Mercer University. Ross and Margaret Anne were married in March 2004. The next year, they moved to Philadelphia for Ross to attend Westminster Theological Seminary in hopes of pursuing the pastorate. Ross graduated from Westminster Seminary in 2010.  He first served as our pastoral intern and became our associate and youth pastor in 2010.