About Gretchen

Wedding Coordinator is her job function at present but she has also served as a bookkeeper, teacher and Assistant Director of the Bucket School in years past. Gretchen graduated from Kutztown State College with a degree in Elementary Education and is certified in Bookkeeping. She has used these skills at First Pres for over 20 years. She has a passion for helping others and works tirelessly in the areas of ending hunger, providing meals for those in need, volunteering for Meals on Wheels, and making hats for Naphtali and Migrant Ministry. She also fundraises for these passions using her organizational, leadership and cooking skills in running bake sales, Stop Hunger Now events, Bridge Dinners, the National Day of Prayer. She has been married to Glenn for 35 years they have two children whom both live in West Chester. They are blessed to be so close and enjoy volunteering as a family for different events. She has a broad range of skills and passions that she uses throughout her ministry here at First Pres.