Robert Weingartner Named Executive Director
of Presbyterian Outreach Foundation

The Rev. Dr. Robert J. Weingartner has been called to be executive director of the Presbyterian Outreach Foundation, following the retirement of Dr. William Bryant.

The new director said, “The Presbyterian Church (USA) is uniquely prepared by its theology and mission heritage, its polity and people, its resources and relationships to reach the world in Jesus’ name. I believe that exciting renewal is ahead as Presbyterians reclaim the essential missional purpose of the church.”

“The Outreach Foundation continues to strengthen our denomination’s work and to expand the opportunities that Presbyterians have to support evangelistic mission in and through the PCUSA,” he added.

Dr. Weingartner was senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Middletown, Ohio, from 1991 to 2002. He was a commissioner to the 214th General Assembly in 2002 and was moderator of the Assembly Committee on Bills and Overtures. He was a member of the General Assembly Council, serving on its Worldwide Ministries Committee from 1993 to 1996.

He received the M.Div. degree summa cum laude from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Ministry from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1995. He has been married since 1980 to Theresa Bradburn Weingartner. They have three children in college and high school.

He has led church groups to Israel, Egypt, Greece and Russia. He represented the PCUSA at consultations in Zaire and Geneva. He plans to visit the “Bill and Bette Bryant Crisis Nursery” in Zambia in the near future.