Carregando
VE![]()
author
Vernon G. Elgin
The Reverend Vernon G. Elgin, Ph.D. was born in Elderton, Pennsylvania. At the age of seventeen, he enlisted in the World War II United States Army Air Corps Reserve. Subsequently ...ver maisThe Reverend Vernon G. Elgin, Ph.D. was born in Elderton, Pennsylvania. At the age of seventeen, he enlisted in the World War II United States Army Air Corps Reserve. Subsequently he served in the Corps for one and one-half years. He studied at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, the Indiana (Pennsylvania) State Teachers College, the Pittsburgh-Xenia United Presbyterian Church Theological Seminary, and the New College of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, from which he received the Degree of Doctor of Theology in Theology. He ministered as an installed pastor in churches in Ohio, Kansas, Iowa, Lakewood (WA), New Zealand, Bali Indonesia, Puerto Rico and Malawi, Africa. He has taught religion courses at the Pacific Lutheran University in Parkland, WA; the Colegio Americano Presbiteirano in Bogota, Colombia; and the University of Livingstonia in Malawi, Africa. His wife Marjorie has been a Professional Christian Educator and volunteer with Presbyterian Women, Church Women United, and other ecclesiastical institutions. The Elgin’s reside in Kent, WA. They have two married sons, Mark and Paul, and six grandchildren.ver menos