John Creasy - Pastor
John Creasy is a founding pastor of The Open Door Presbyterian Church since 2005 and Executive Director of Garfield Community Farm. John loves serving the church in areas of mission and outreach, helping members connect their faith to all aspects of life for the sake of the world. John and his wife Alyssa lead The Open Door’s music ministry and enjoy creating music with the band This Side of Eve.
John and Alyssa, have three children, Téah, Micah and Lyle. They’ve lived in the East End of Pittsburgh for nearly eighteen years.
Doug Gebhard - Interim Pastor
Doug Gebhard was born and raised in Penn Hills, PA. He attended the University of Pittsburgh (’75) where he studied writing with an emphasis on journalism. In 1989 he graduated from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and was ordained in June of that year. He’s done interim work for over 20 years with churches in Western PA, Florida, New York and North Carolina. Showing his commitment to ecumenism, Doug has pastored a Moravian church and a Lutheran congregation.
He and his wife Susan (Dr. G.) have been married 30 years. They have three grown children: Xandra, Mairé , and Mac; and two dogs–Tir na nOg an Irish Wolfhound and Yankee a 12 year old Golden Doodle.
Doug is an avid music lover (Americana, jangle pop, reggae, folk, blues, jazz) and guitar player (Telecaster & Alvarez). Ask him sometime about his band from the late 70’s and about the last Bob Marley concert he covered as a journalist.
Favorite authors: John Irving, Annie Dillard, Anne Lamott. Favorite shows: Survivor, Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Penn & Teller Fool Us, almost anything on AppleTV+.
Alyssa Creasy - Interim Children’s Ministry leader
Shannon Hohowski - Financial Administrator
Shannon started working as the part time financial administrator for the Open Door in June 2019. She graduated with a BSBA from Robert Morris University with a major in Finance and has worked in the accounting field for both profit and nonprofit organizations over the course of her career.
Lee Scott - Parish Associate
Nici - Communication & Administration
Nici is a communications project manager with 20+ years of marketing, volunteer management, fundraising, customer service, sales and administration experience. She possesses a Master’s in Public Administration specializing in Nonprofit Management, and also a sense of humor :) She is an aficionado of knitting, and can often be found sitting under a pile of yarn and cats!