The Rev. Jeffrey Carney
Jeffrey was born in West Virginia, and grew up
in Cumberland, Maryland. He received his B.A. in Philosophy & Religion from
Davis & Elkins College and
his M. Div degree from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. He was ordained in the Presbyterian
Church USA in 1984 in Abingdon, VA, and has
served churches in Maryland, West Virginia, Indiana
and
Wisconsin, California, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
His wife Cynthia is also an ordained pastor at Willow
Grove Presbyterian Church in Scotch Plains. Prior to coming to NJ,
Jeffrey was an Organizing Pastor for
two new churches -- one
in Sacramento, CA, and the other in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania.
They have two boys – Jackson (15) and Joshua (11). Jeffrey is looking forward to begin at South
Amboy in
October.