Alumni News

Dave (MAR, MDIV) and Anne (MAR, 1986) Bennett still live in Phoenix. Dave has been in the PCA for 36 years and has done Community Work through Barrio Nuevo Phoenix for 16 years. Anne recently retired from being a Chaplain at Florence Prison and now is a Chaplain at Mercy Gilbert Hospital. They are blessed to have all four grandsons live locally!

Dale Meador (MAR, 1984; MDIV, 1985) continues to serve as a Pastor at Bear Creek Church, a Chaplain for the Medford Police Department, and a Volunteer with Joni & Friends Southern Oregon. Since being diagnosed with ALS in August 2020, he seeks to put his disease to work by sharing about his experience with it and recently posted a video on YouTube entitled “How Pastor Dale Hopes to Die of ALS, and Why."

Rev. Mbanongon Kurugh Antiev (MA, DMin) is married to Eunice Kurugh. Eunice recently stepped down from her role as Women’s Leader at Universal Reformed Christian Church. Rev. Mbanongon currently serves the Lord as Secretary of the Board of Trustees for the Universal Reformed Christian Church in Nigeria. He is also an Ambassador for the Forensic Guards of Nigeria. He has 8 children and 6 grandchildren.

Patrick O’Banion (MAHT) published a translation of The Spiritual Marriage between Christ and His Church and Every One of the Faithful (RHB, 2021) by the Italian reformer Girolamo Zanchi.

Myriam (Jones) Hertzog is married to Andy and they live in the Philadelphia area. They have 3 boys: Aidan (16), Lewis (13), and Michael (8). Myriam works at CCEF with their Donor Relations team. Andy works at Amerigas Propane in their Marketing Department. Aidan has enjoyed serving on the pastoral search committee at their local PCA church and this past year went through his great grandpa's book The Unfolding Mystery on zoom with another friend. They remain grateful to the Lord for the riches of a solid Westminster education and its impact on the next generation.

David Zadok (MABS) lives and ministers in Israel, both pastoring a church and directing HaGefen Publishing, a reformed publishing house in Hebrew language.

Tony Suitor (MDIV) continues to work as the Pastor of Children and Family Ministries at Valley Center Community Church.

Stephen Roberts (MDIV) is an OPC Army chaplain. He has been married to Lindsey for 12 years and they have three wonderful children: Seth (9), Tabitha (7), and Canaan (1). Stephen writes every month for Modern Reformation and Core Christianity, and Lindsey writes monthly for The Washington Post. Many a night is spent side-by-side, typing and reviewing pieces. Stephen is supremely grateful for my time at WSC, where he learned to see Christ in all of Scripture and to love the Lord with his mind.

Jeff Locke (MATS) was ordained a priest in the Diocese of Churches for the Sake of Others in the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), by Bishop Ken Ross on behalf of Bishop Todd Hunter. On that day, he was also installed as the rector of Eucharist Church in San Francisco after transitioning out of the church he planted in 2013, Grace Church Alameda. Eucharist Church is a community of disciples who live all of life in reference to Christ in the heart of San Francisco. He is humbled by and grateful for this new calling.

Tommy Myrick (MDIV) and his wife, Abigail, welcomed the birth of their third daughter, Eden Campbell Myrick, last December. Tommy continues to serve Fourth Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, Maryland, as Associate Pastor.

Jeff Eicher (MAHT) and his wife, Emily, welcomed their first child, Isabella, into the world in August. Born at 28 weeks and 2 pounds, Isabella is healthy and strong after a 70-day NICU stay. They live in Escondido.

Benjamin Castaneda (MDIV) will finish his Ph.D. in New Testament this spring at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland). He has been appointed as Lecturer in Greek and New Testament at Edinburgh Theological Seminary, the denominational seminary of the Free Church of Scotland, starting July 1.

Tyler Frick (MAHT) published a book entitled Karl Barth’s Ontology of Divine Grace: God’s Decision is God’s Being (Mohr Siebeck: 2021). Tim Taylor (MAHT) is now the curate and assisting priest at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Fort Worth, Texas. It is a traditional and Reformed parish in the Anglican Church of North America’s Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth under the oversight of Bishop Ryan Reed.

Daniel Svendsen (MDIV) was received into the OPC Presbytery of the Midwest in the fall of 2021 as a ministerial member. At the same time, the church he pastors - formerly First CRC of South Holland, IL - was received into the OPC after voting as a church to affiliate with a new denomination. In family news, Daniel and his wife, Michelle, welcomed their fourth child, Rose Abigail, (Sophia - 6, Charlotte - 4, Tye - 2) to their family in March of 2021.

Harrison Perkins (MDIV) and his wife, Sarah, recently welcomed their first child, Scott Wesley Perkins, named after Professor Clark and Sarah's grandfather. Daniel Ventura (MDIV) accepted a call to Ontario United Reformed Church in California to serve alongside Rev. Taylor Kern (WSC alum). Together, they will shepherd the Hispanic ministry and English-speaking church and seek to integrate them together. Daniel’s family will be leaving their current post in Canada at Living Water Reformed Church (where he has served for almost 7 years), and heading out to California near the end of May.

Tommy Peterson (MABS) is blessed to serve as Pastor at Community Presbyterian Church (PCA), midway between Tallahassee and Jacksonville in a small town called Live Oak. He also has the honor of working part-time in prison ministry. Tommy is the regional coordinator for MINTS (Miami Theological Seminary), overseeing the seminary-in-prison ministry in north cen-

tral Florida. MINTS is a discipleship program that enables Christian men and women behind bars to get college credit, theological/biblical reformed training, and engage with their faith in new dimensions. Please pray for God to continue to use this program to grow his church in prison.

Stephen Sprague (MDIV) recently (August 2021) took on a new role as the Dean of Students at Heritage Christian Academy in Olathe, KS. It is a ministry of Redeemer Presbyterian Church. Stephen and his wife also welcomed their daughter, Hazel Hope Elsie Sprague, into the family on January 8, 2022.

Jimmy Apodaca (MDIV) was recently installed as the pastor of Living Hope OPC in Cerritos, CA, in addition to operating his business. Living Hope is a church with over 50 years of history serving the LA area. It was founded as a congregation of the OPC, spent most of its history in the PCA, and has re-joined the OPC as a church revitalization project. He will be serving in a bi-vocational capacity for the foreseeable future. Bryce Souve (MDIV) passed his final ordination exam in March and will be taking up the call to serve as pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church (OPC) in Janesville, WI. He and his family moved at the end of the month. Bryce praises the Lord for the gift of WSC and looks forward to continuing his support and love for the seminary.

Ethan Wormell (MDIV) was licensed by the CCCC (Conservative Congregational Christian Conference) and called to be the Pastor of Forestdale Church in Sandwich, MA.

The spiritual life of Westminster Seminary California is nurtured by Morning Devotions on Tuesdays and Thursdays. All devotional exercises are governed by the Word of God, which remains the true guide in Christian worship and prayer, as well as in all other activities of the Christian life and life on campus. This year, WSC introduced two new series, titled "Questions Jesus Asked," and "Christian Virtues," led primarily by the WSC faculty. You can access these devotions online

DR. A. CRAIG TROXEL "Do you love me?" / John 21:15-17

WSC FACULTY + GUESTS

We can glean a great deal from the inquiries of man to God, but we can also learn much from those asked by the Son of God to man. The faculty looks at the questions asked by Jesus during his life and ministry about himself, about the kingdom, and about God's saving plan.

WSC FACULTY + GUESTS

The faculty will explore various Christian virtues as revealed in Scripture and the person and work of Jesus. The series will examine various Christian virtues in their relationship to God, to one another, and in their interrelatedness to other virtues.