The Rev. Liddy Barlow became the first woman to be installed as Executive Minister of Christian Associates of Southwest Pennsylvania in 2014.
For fifty years, Christian Associates has built relationships among Christians who are Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant; Black and white; liberal and conservative; rural and urban; from 28 church bodies in the 10 counties of greater Pittsburgh. Together, these diverse Christians speak and act together for the common good and build bridges between the church and our interfaith, civic, and community partners.
Rev. Barlow leads all of Christian Associates’ projects and programs, including unanimous public statements, worship services and community forums, The Call newsletter, and The Word in Our Voices sermon collection series. She holds a variety of leadership roles in local organizations that serve people experiencing hunger, discrimination, or incarceration, including City of Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations.
Rev. Barlow grew up in New Hampshire and is ordained in the United Church of Christ. She is married and has two children: Pippa, age 11, and Edmund, age 8.
She hopes you will like Christian Associates on Facebook: www.facebook.com/christianassociatesswpa and check out the Web site: http://www.casp.org.
GOSPEL Mark 4:35-41
35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, ‘Let us go across to the other side.’ 36 And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. 37 A great gale arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped. 38 But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and said to him, ‘Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?’ 39 He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, ‘Peace! Be still!’ Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm. 40 He said to them, ‘Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?’ 41 And they were filled with great awe and said to one another, ‘Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?’