Meet Our Pastor:
Rev. R. Scott MacLaren
Pastor MacLaren was born and raised in Philadelphia, until at the age of twelve his family moved into Montgomery county, a suburb of Philadelphia. He graduated from Phil-Mont Christian Academy in Dresher, PA, then went to Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, GA, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Philosophy. He returned to the Philadelphia area and earned his Master of Divinity degree from Westminster Theological Seminary. While serving in Brownwood, Texas, he was ordained to the gospel ministry by the Presbytery of the Southwest, OPC. He briefly went to Westminster Seminary in California to begin a doctoral program under Dr. Jay E. Adams on the subject of doctrinal preaching. In the course of his ministry, Pastor MacLaren has served in a variety of church planting efforts in Texas, and currently serves in Perkasie, PA. He enjoys sports, having played basketball in high school and college, and follows the local professional sports teams as he is able. He enjoys the company of his faithful Golden Retriever "Duke."
Rev. MacLaren has had a long and faithful commitment to the reformed faith and a thoroughly Christian world view. He is the product of some of our nation's finest Christian educational institutions that hold to the reformed faith, and has a strong interest in church planting and seeing the development of a Christian world view in the church today.