Pastor

 

The Reverend John A. Stoudt was called to serve as the pastor of Emmaus in 1995.  He received his education at Susquehanna University (B.A. in Latin and Greek), Fordham University (M.A. in Latin and Greek) and Concordia Lutheran Seminary-St. Catharines (M.Div.). Before coming to Emmaus he was the pastor of St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in Croydon, Pennsylvania, and taught theology and history at Our Saviour Lutheran High School in the Bronx.   He has served the Synod’s Atlantic District as Visitor of the Lower Manhattan/Western Queens Circuit, four-term chaplain to the district pastoral conference, and vacancy pastor. 

Although now officially retired, he continues to preside at the Eucharist on Sundays and on certain Holy Days throughout the year.  His late wife, Faith (nee McElvain), was a graduate of Concordia College in Bronxville, N.Y., and taught in Lutheran parochial schools in Pennsylvania and New York for 42 years.