Dave Weiss' I

I. Cohort Personnel

Name: David Weiss
Address: 589 Stone Rd., Mohrsville, PA 19541
Phone Numbers:
Home: 610-926-0488
Office: 610-562-9757
Church: 610-929-5212
Cell Phone: 610-451-4513
Email address: angelprty1@aol.com
Congregation being served: New Creation Fellowship, Reading, PA
District: Atlantic Northeast
Education Completed: 2003
Year Ordained: 2003
Years of Pastoral Experience: Two as “senior pastor” plus five years in volunteer youth ministry
A listing of continuing education experiences for the last five years:
Brethren Academy courses to complete ordination training
Bethany Seminary Church Planting Course Spring 2002
Ashland Seminary Church Planting Course and Assessment- Summer 2004
Numerous one day workshops and courses, in ethics, ministry skills, spiritual formation, etc.
Ministry Context of Dave Weiss
After five years of volunteer youth ministry, I felt the call to plant a new church, so with the blessing of the congregation and the district, a core group of seven people began New Creation Fellowship in September of 2002. The church was designed from its inception to be a missional community of faith, attempting to fulfill both aspects of the Great Commission (going AND making disciples). We have had some success (especially in the latter) but the pressures of bivocational ministry and a syndrome that I refer to as the “overcommitted committed” i.e. people with missional hearts and extremely busy schedules. We are surrounded by a community that (in a lot of cases) has everything but Christ. My goal in this research project is to learn more about how to take what is in my heart and the hearts of my congregation as well as our God given gifts and abilities and place them into action to the glory of God.

What also may be important to this project is that I have been involved in the graphics/communications field most of my life and I have a passion for using the visual arts in preaching, teaching and reaching. I have put this to work in my ministry almost from the beginning and create resources and teach seminars in the field of using the visual arts in ministry. http://www.radicallyreal.com/amok I am also convinced that music can be a powerful tool in reaching people especially youth. As a result of this, I have become a lesson writer for the Christian music based, youth ministry resource, Interlinc.