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Dr. Scott Shidemantle, Professor of Biblical Studies, was elected to serve as Moderator of the Presbytery of the Ascension (PCA) for 2018.

The Presbytery of the Ascension is comprised of all the churches in the PCA denomination in Western Pennsylvania north of Pittsburgh all the way to Erie.  Ordinarily, there are four presbytery meetings each year, where pastors and elders from churches in the presbytery meet to receive and act upon committee reports, work through difficult issues, quiz seminary students for ordination, and strategize about missions and ministry. The Moderator moderates those meetings, and a new Moderator is elected each year.

Shidemantle is an ordained Ruling Elder in the PCA, and he is full member of the Evangelical Theological Society and the Society for Biblical Literature. He teaches numerous courses at Geneva College, and has a focused interest in the area of the New Testament′s Johannine Literature—Gospel of John, Letters of John, and John′s Revelation.