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Our Church LeadershipWe are an independent congregational church.We do not belong to any denominational organization.Church members vote our leadership into office. Members also vote on any ByLaw amendments proposed by the leadership, and vote to approve the annual budget as well as any buying or selling of property. We elect a Board of Elders and a Board of Deacons to lead us.We follow the example of the New Testament church, as described in Acts chapter 6, and 1 Timothy chapter 3. Our spiritual leadership is a Board of Elders. Elders are individually examined by the congregation and elected to a four year term. They may be reelected to a second term. The Elders recommend to the congregation those they feel qualified for the Board of Deacons. The Deacons serve the physical needs of the church, so that the Elders may be devoted to the Word of God and the spiritual needs of the church.One member of the Board of Elders is hired by the congregation as teaching elder/minister/pastor. |
Pastor Norman A. KoopThe Reverend Norman A. Koop, Th.M. became the teaching elder/pastor of FCCW in 1990. He was born April 8, 1946 in Philadelphia, raised in a Christian home, exposed to the teaching of such outstanding exponents of the Reformed Tradition as Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse, Dr. Frank E. Gaebelein, Dr. Mariano DiGangi, and Dr. James Montgomery Boice. His educational background includes The Stony Brook School, Eastern College, Eastern Baptist Seminary, and Princeton Theological Seminary from which he was granted the degrees of Master of Divinity and Master of Theology. As a seminarian he served as Student Assistant at Tenth Church in Philadelphia gaining invaluable teaching experience in that landmark of Reformed Theology. In 1973 he was called as pastor to the historic Deerfield Presbyterian Church in New Jersey. He pastored there for 16 years before coming to Woodstock, Vermont. Mr. Koop is married with three grown children and three grandchildren.
Anne and Norm Koop |
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The First Congregational Church of Woodstock, Vermont
36 Elm Street Woodstock, Vermont 05091 802/457–9818 |
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