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[ Bios ]
Brock Bahler
My wife, Amber, and I have been married for nearly seven years and have an incredibly active and inquisitive toddler named Emerson. After spending three and a half years in vocational ministry in Indianapolis, we relocated to Pittsburgh where I am pursuing a PhD in philosophy at Duquesne University. The Open Door has been an incredible church home for us where we have built lasting friendships and have had the space to explore our faith.
My prayer and vision for the Open Door is that this young church would mature in its identity, purpose, and mission, which practically works itself out in wisely and intentionally committing to ministries and partnerships that uniquely fit our gifts as well as our particular sphere of influence in the East End of Pittsburgh.
My blog (that I update sporadically…)
Julie Draper
I like to grow vegetables, cook, and convert others to the many potential glories of green onions. I also write fiction and poetry, take graduate classes at Pitt, and work as an editor and freelance writer.
My prayer for the Open Door is for increased maturity, humility, faith, wisdom, and love as our church grows and develops as a community and at times confronts difficult decisions and situations. In general, I pray that we would have deeper relationships with one another, our neighbors, and God.
Ryan Duchene
I am one of the surprisingly few native Pittsburghers at the Open Door. I am a international tax consultant for Deloitte Tax and have been there for 8 years. My beautiful wife Anna and I have been married for almost 4 years now, and we live in Squirrel Hill. My prayer for the Open Door is that we are able to continue to find ways reach out to people across age, race and class lines, delivering the message of Jesus, even to those that don’t walk through the door of the Union Project on Sunday evenings.
Heather Hyde Jennings
I have spent my career solving business problems; but now have a tendency to see opportunities in place of problems, potential collaborations, synergy, shared or intersecting purposes of people and organizations. My background is in financial analysis and reporting and I am familiar with non-profit record keeping and reporting. I currently act as a trusted advisor to Third River clients who are engaged in strategy execution and leadership development initiatives.
Grow in a way that “leaves no one behind”. Establish our church as a trusted place for “soul care.”
Jen McCaslin
After graduating from college, I worked for 7 years as a campus minister and walked along college students in various stages of faith. I moved to Pittsburgh four years ago and started attending the Open Door partly because the evening service fit with my work schedule, but mostly because I was excited about the vision – creating passageways to God, one another and the world in the way of Jesus.
I long for people of the Open Door to discover and use their gifts to serve others. I’m also excited to see us grow deeper in relationship with each other and those in the community.
Megan Shelly
I met my husband Ben within the first few months of living in Pittsburgh. Ben and I got married in April 2005, and soon after bought our house in Friendship. Our son Joseph was born in August 2009. I currently work part-time as a Staff Scientist for an environmental consulting firm and Ben works as a software engineer for a biomedical device company. When not working on our house… we enjoy hiking and camping and good beer.
My prayer for the Open Door is that we would know whose we are (that we belong to God and to each other), where we are (knowing our neighborhoods and neighbors), and that we would follow Jesus in ordinary and RADICAL ways, choosing risk over comfort, action over complacency. Also, that we would learn to pray.
Alison Peebles
Coming soon…
Byron Pryor
Coming soon…
