ALUMNI NEWS 1984 Dave (MAR, MDIV) and Anne (MAR, 1986) Bennett still live in Phoenix. Dave has been in the PCA for 36 years and has done Community Work through Barrio Nuevo Phoenix for 16 years. Anne recently retired from being a Chaplain at Florence Prison and now is a Chaplain at Mercy Gilbert Hospital. They are blessed to have all four grandsons live locally! 1985 Dale Meador (MAR, 1984; MDIV, 1985) continues to serve as a Pastor at Bear Creek Church, a Chaplain for the Medford Police Department, and a Volunteer with Joni & Friends Southern Oregon. Since being diagnosed with ALS in August 2020, he seeks to put his disease to work by sharing about his experience with it and recently posted a video on YouTube entitled “How Pastor Dale Hopes to Die of ALS, and Why." 1993 Rev. Mbanongon Kurugh Antiev (MA, DMin) is married to Eunice Kurugh. Eunice recently stepped down from her role as Women’s Leader at Universal Reformed Christian Church. Rev. Mbanongon currently serves the Lord as Secretary of the Board of Trustees for the Universal Reformed Christian Church in Nigeria. He is also an Ambassador for the Forensic Guards of Nigeria. He has 8 children and 6 grandchildren. 2000 Patrick O’Banion (MAHT) published a translation of The Spiritual Marriage between Christ and His Church and Every One of the Faithful (RHB, 2021) by the Italian reformer Girolamo Zanchi. 2001 Myriam (Jones) Hertzog is married to Andy and they live in the Philadelphia area. They have 3 boys: Aidan (16), Lewis (13), and Michael (8). Myriam works at CCEF with their Donor Relations team. Andy works at Amerigas Propane in their Marketing Department. Aidan has enjoyed serving on the pastoral search committee at their local PCA church and this past year went through his great grandpa's book The Unfolding Mystery on zoom with another friend. They remain grateful to the Lord for the
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riches of a solid Westminster education and its impact on the next generation. 2006 David Zadok (MABS) lives and ministers in Israel, both pastoring a church and directing HaGefen Publishing, a reformed publishing house in Hebrew language. 2007 Tony Suitor (MDIV) continues to work as the Pastor of Children and Family Ministries at Valley Center Community Church. 2008 Stephen Roberts (MDIV) is an OPC Army chaplain. He has been married to Lindsey for 12 years and they have three wonderful children: Seth (9), Tabitha (7), and Canaan (1). Stephen writes every month for Modern Reformation and Core Christianity, and Lindsey writes monthly for The Washington Post. Many a night is spent side-by-side, typing and reviewing pieces. Stephen is supremely grateful for my time at WSC, where he learned to see Christ in all of Scripture and to love the Lord with his mind. 2009 Jeff Locke (MATS) was ordained a priest in the Diocese of Churches for the Sake of Others in the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), by Bishop Ken Ross on behalf of Bishop Todd Hunter. On that day, he was also installed as the rector of Eucharist Church in San Francisco after transitioning out of the church he planted in 2013, Grace Church Alameda. Eucharist Church is a community of disciples who live all of life in reference to Christ in the heart of San Francisco. He is humbled by and grateful for this new calling. 2010 Tommy Myrick (MDIV) and his wife, Abigail, welcomed the birth of their third daughter, Eden Campbell Myrick, last December. Tommy continues to serve Fourth Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, Maryland, as Associate Pastor. 2011 Jeff Eicher (MAHT) and his wife, Emily, welcomed their first child, Isabella, into the world in August. Born at 28 weeks and 2 pounds, Isabella is healthy and strong after a 70-day NICU stay. They live in Escondido. 2012 Benjamin Castaneda (MDIV) will finish his Ph.D. in New Testament this spring at
the University of St. Andrews (Scotland). He has been appointed as Lecturer in Greek and New Testament at Edinburgh Theological Seminary, the denominational seminary of the Free Church of Scotland, starting July 1. 2013 Tyler Frick (MAHT) published a book entitled Karl Barth’s Ontology of Divine Grace: God’s Decision is God’s Being (Mohr Siebeck: 2021). Tim Taylor (MAHT) is now the curate and assisting priest at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Fort Worth, Texas. It is a traditional and Reformed parish in the Anglican Church of North America’s Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth under the oversight of Bishop Ryan Reed. 2014 Daniel Svendsen (MDIV) was received into the OPC Presbytery of the Midwest in the fall of 2021 as a ministerial member. At the same time, the church he pastors formerly First CRC of South Holland, IL - was received into the OPC after voting as a church to affiliate with a new denomination. In family news, Daniel and his wife, Michelle, welcomed their fourth child, Rose Abigail, (Sophia - 6, Charlotte - 4, Tye - 2) to their family in March of 2021. 2015 Harrison Perkins (MDIV) and his wife, Sarah, recently welcomed their first child, Scott Wesley Perkins, named after Professor Clark and Sarah's grandfather. Daniel Ventura (MDIV) accepted a call to Ontario United Reformed Church in California to serve alongside Rev. Taylor Kern (WSC alum). Together, they will shepherd the Hispanic ministry and English-speaking church and seek to integrate them together. Daniel’s family will be leaving their current post in Canada at Living Water Reformed Church (where he has served for almost 7 years), and heading out to California near the end of May. 2016 Tommy Peterson (MABS) is blessed to serve as Pastor at Community Presbyterian Church (PCA), midway between Tallahassee and Jacksonville in a small town called Live Oak. He also has the honor of working part-time in prison ministry. Tommy is the regional coordinator for MINTS (Miami Theological Seminary), overseeing the seminary-in-prison ministry in north cenUPDATE | SPRING2022
