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  • Home
    • Plan a Visit!
  • About Us
    • Program Year Schedule
    • Month in Review
    • Annual Reports
    • Visitors and Guests >
      • All are Welcome Here!
      • Visiting the Church
    • Become a Member >
      • New Member Getting to Know You Form
    • Getting Here
    • Hours
    • Our Staff
    • What we Believe
    • Church History
    • Church Leadership >
      • Elders
      • Deacons
      • Visitation Deacons
      • Ministry Units/Committees
    • Building & Facilities >
      • Sanctuary
      • Columbarium
    • Caring for God's Creation >
      • Composting & Recycling
      • Sustainability Circle
    • Our Newest Members
    • Photo Gallery
  • Worship
    • Worship Services
    • Worship Service Live-Streams
    • Worship Bulletins
    • Sermons 2025 >
      • Sermon Archives 2024 >
        • Sermon Archives 2023
    • Worship Service Greeters
    • Seasons of Worship
    • Music
    • Communion
    • Weddings
    • Baptisms
  • Ministries
    • Adult Ministries >
      • Sunday Adult Offerings >
        • Adult Education Archives
      • Spiritual Life Ministry >
        • Henszey Lecture Series >
          • Brian McLaren - Henszey Lecture
      • Fellowship
      • Small Groups >
        • Men's Groups
        • Women's Groups
        • Grieving in God’s Embrace (formerly "Life After Loss")
    • Young Adult Ministry
    • College-Age Ministries
    • Children & Youth >
      • Sunday School Registration
      • Sunday Morning Programs >
        • Children, Worship & Song
        • Worship Childcare
        • Infants and Toddlers
        • Sunday Morning Pathways for Elementary
        • Sunday Morning OASIS for Middle School and High School
        • Sunday School Registration
      • Summer Pathways
      • Mid-Week Ministries for Children and Youth >
        • LOGOS Geckos (grades 1-5)
        • LOGOS Chrysalis (grades 6-8)
        • FISH (Grades 9-12)
      • Children & Youth Group Forms
      • Resources for Parents/Grandparents
    • Mission >
      • Mission Opportunities
      • Past Mission Projects
      • Hospital Visitation
    • Generosity >
      • 2025 Pledge Form
      • Online Giving
    • Safeguarding Our Children
    • Time and Talent Profile
  • Stay & Play Preschool
    • About Us
    • News
    • Classes
    • Enrollment
    • Forms >
      • Stay and Play 2025/2026 Enrollment Form
      • Stay and Play Employment Application
    • Staff
    • Contact Us
  • News & More
    • PresbyPost Newsletters >
      • PresbyPost Archives
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    • Information Gathering Form
    • Additional Links

The Deacons


The Board of Deacons, or Deacons, serves through witnessing, service, and sympathy, modeling after Christ. The Deacons are staffed by the Pastor and assisted by our Associate in Ministry. The board includes up to 38 members, 37 regular members, and one or more youth members. The board meets monthly, except for the summer break (July and August).

The Deacons have two units to share the responsibility of caring for the church: Caregiving and Service. The Caregiving Unit provided meals for members of the congregation in need, outreach to shut-ins including flower delivery for Easter and Christmas, and support for funeral receptions and the Visitation Deacons. The Service Unit organized fellowship events including the Presbytery Luncheon, Church Bingo, the Palm Sunday Breakfast, the Church Picnic at Tudek Park - including worship, Social at Big Spring Spirits, Christmas Caroling, and Soup Supper following the Candlelight service. The Deacons also took turns delivering donated items to the State College Food Bank. 
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The Deacons are represented on the Congregational Fellowship Committee along with a currently serving Elder.  The Congregational Fellowship Committee is responsible for the Sunday morning coffee fellowship time, and congregational fellowship activities. Deacons also provide much-needed financial support to various projects and organizations, such as the LOGOS and Krislund Camp scholarships, church upgrades (ice machine, power washer, and Tower Room), Mission Trips such as the Hurricane Katrina Rebuilding trips, and the Pastor’s Discretionary Fund.

Click here to learn more about Deacons' activities
2025 Deacons:
Sharon Ambrose
Kevin Astare

Scott Banfield - Treasurer
Benton Bickerton
Chip Clark

Miguel Cruden
Curt Dell - Vice Moderator
Nancy Dreschel
Greg Elliott

Bruce Grinder
Natalie Hernandez
Tracy Massaglia - Moderator
Rhett McLaren
Gail Miller

Juli Mortimore
Katie Nurmi
Melissa Pike
Liane Roe
Marti Sawyer
Jon Schwantes
Mary Ann Sesler
Phil Spangler
Leslie Stafford
Katie Stone
Becky Thomas
Steve Van Hook

Margaret VanFossan
​Melanie Wassom

The Visitation Deacons

An additional Board was added to our structure in 1993 for a ministry of visitation.  Visitation Deacons are members of the congregation who are specifically ordained and installed to call on shut-ins.  Every month each Visitation Deacon visits one or more of our members who are confined to their homes, living in retirement communities or nursing homes, or limited in their ability to be a physical part of the life of the congregation.

2025 Visitation Deacons:
Nikki Blake
Molly Buchanan
Carol Graham
Mary Jane Kistler
Bill Lukens
Bitsey Robertson
Mimi St. Clair
Carolyn Tothero
​Anita Thies - chair
State College Presbyterian Church
132 West Beaver Avenue
State College, PA 16801
Phone: 814-238-2422
​Fax: 814-238-3524
email: [email protected]

Sunday Worship (during the Program Year)
    In the Sanctuary at  9:30 am, followed by our
    Exploration Hour (Coffee Available in the Social
    Hall from 9:00 - 11:00 am)


Summer Sunday Worship 
   In the Sanctuary at 9:30 am followed by Coffee
   Hour (outdoors as weather permits)


Live-Streamed Worship ~ An email is sent out on Saturdays  (to those on our mailing list) with a link to  our live-stream of the worship service on YouTube at 9:30 am on  Sundays.  If you would like to join our mailing list, please click here

​Stay and Play Preschool
814-237-1154
​[email protected]
 Church Office Hours:
Monday - Thursday: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Friday: 9:00 am - noon
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