Guest Speakers

January 12, 2025

Rev. Brian Wallace

Brian is the primary presbytery staff liaison for congregations in the East Branch of the Pittsburgh Presbytery.

Communion will also be celebrated on January 12.

January 19 - February 9, 2025

Mark Steffey

Mark Steffey serves with the Coalition for Christian Outreach as the campus minister for student athletes at the University of Pittsburgh

Mark runs a weekly athlete fellowship, along with CCO staff co-worker Kelly Cooke. Mark also serves as the chaplain for the Pitt football team, leads an annual overseas student-athlete mission trips, disciples student athletes, coaches and staff, leads small-group Bible studies, and attends University of Pittsburgh athletic events and practices.  Thousands of student athletes have been impacted by the CCO ministry at Pitt since 2008.

February 23 - March 2, 2025

Emily Hill

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.

March 9-16, 2025

Dennis Williams

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.

March 23, 2025

Ty Brewer

Ty Brewer began serving the Lord with his gifting in 2014 as a singer at Unity. In 2019, he followed God’s plan for his family, to become Director of Worship at New Stanton Church, where he served with a passion to create disciples and deepen his family’s faith until 2024. He is overwhelmingly excited to come full circle in God’s plan to rejoin Unity, to continue, and elevate the journey his family has been preparing for, which is to deepen relationships and faith by creating disciples who follow Christ alone. Ty and his wife Deidre been focused on studying and understanding the Lord’s Word at home, and building a community with the same focus. Ty, along with his family, Dee, Gut, and ALay, are excited to pursue God with a group of followers who are dedicated to living out God’s Word and purpose in ministry together.

March 30, 2025

Kishore Vellody

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.

April 6, 2025

Josh Hull

Josh Hull is the Kids Ministry Director at Riverside Community Church in Oakmont. He has also spoken at many PKF camp events such as Spring Session and Mud Weekends that our students have attended.

April 13-20, 2025 (Palm Sunday & Easter Sunday)

Ty Brewer

Ty Brewer began serving the Lord with his gifting in 2014 as a singer at Unity. In 2019, he followed God’s plan for his family, to become Director of Worship at New Stanton Church, where he served with a passion to create disciples and deepen his family’s faith until 2024. He is overwhelmingly excited to come full circle in God’s plan to rejoin Unity, to continue, and elevate the journey his family has been preparing for, which is to deepen relationships and faith by creating disciples who follow Christ alone. Ty and his wife Deidre been focused on studying and understanding the Lord’s Word at home, and building a community with the same focus. Ty, along with his family, Dee, Gut, and ALay, are excited to pursue God with a group of followers who are dedicated to living out God’s Word and purpose in ministry together.