Meet our Guest Pastors & Speakers

During this season of transition as we prayerfully search for our next head pastor, we are grateful to welcome a variety of guest pastors and speakers to share God’s Word each week. Below, you'll find a list of upcoming and past speakers who are helping lead us through this time with wisdom, encouragement, and biblical teaching.

Dennis Williams

January 18 &  25
February 1 & 8
March 29 (Palm Sunday)
April 3 & 5 (Good Friday & Easter Sunday)
Dennis was born and raised in South Carolina, growing up in a rural area of the upstate.  Dennis grew up attending the local United Methodist Church near his family home and has played a part in about every area of ministry the church offered.  Dennis has been in youth ministry, in the choir, as well as being certified as a lay speaker for the UMC.  Upon moving to Pennsylvania the first time, Dennis started on the road of answering the call to ministry, but his family was relocated to SC with work, where he started the ministry process again.  After a year, His family was moved back to the Pittsburgh area and during this period he became a Licensed Local Pastor with the UMC, serving as Associate Pastor of Garden City UMC in Monroeville.  Dennis served in that capacity until his family was relocated to Land O Lakes, Florida, where he became leader of the Praise Team and served as a lay speaker in the church.  After a stay in Batesville, Indiana for 3 years, the family settled back into the East Pittsburgh area in Murrysville in 2020.

Emily Hill

February 22
March 1, 8, & 22
Emily Hill is a Chaplain at Heritage Hospice and licensed social worker. She has wound her way through the local church in various ways for the past 10 years of professional ministry and graduated with a Master of Divinity from Wesley Seminary. Recent years have led her to meeting Jesus more personally and finding God in the everyday moments of life. You can join her in that journey by checking out her book, Everyday Epiphany: Discovering God in Every Moment. Emily loves to help others see His love, grace, and promises more clearly in their own lives through writing and worship. Her hobbies include whatever her two little girls like to do, drinking too much coffee, dabbling in the guitar and piano, singing loud, laughing louder, writing, talking, and watching reality tv.

Jed Berry

February 15, 2026
Jed works as a Behavior Specialist with people that struggle with intensive behaviors and multiple diagnoses (e.g. Autism, Schizophrenia, ADHD, Impulse Control Disorder, etc...). He also has worked and served in various churches in the Southwestern PA region filling roles related to worship, youth ministry, community, volunteering, and missions. Jed received his Bachelor's in Youth Ministry from Waynesburg University and his Master's in Theology and Apologetics from Liberty University. He now spends his free time nowadays playing worship music, video games, and/or arguing with his dog, Baron, because Baron tends to stand right in front of the TV when Jed sits down to watch his favorite shows.

Kishore Vellody

March 15, 2026
Kishore is a pediatrician at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. He and his family live in Cranberry where they are members of Allegheny Center Alliance Church. He is responsible for creating Prodigal Love Ministries in 2012 as a lay speaking ministry to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ. Through this ministry, Kishore has been able to fill the pulpit at a number of different churches.