Our Lead Pastor: Reverend Joe Albright

Phil Blackburn

The Reverend Phillip L. Blackburn is a native of Oklahoma. Born and raised in Oklahoma City, he graduated high school in 1993 before attending the University of Kansas. He graduated the University of Kansas in 1997 with degrees in History and Religious Studies and with an avid passion for Kansas basketball. Upon graduation from KU he enrolled at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Austin, Texas. It was in Austin that he met a fellow seminarian named Tasha Hofmann, whom he married in July of 2001. Following his graduation from APTS, he attended the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland where he received a Master of Theology degree. He then accepted a two year fellowship at Second Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, IN. He had the opportunity to reflect critically on ministry and the Church and was blessed with an excellent preparation for his next call. That next call led him to Lincoln, Illinois where he was the pastor of First Presbyterian. He currently lives in Fort Smith, Arkansas with his wife, who together are co-pastors at First Presbyterian Church. They have two children, Calum and Alena.

Tasha Blackburn

Reverend Tasha Blackburn is currently co-pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Fort Smith, Arkansas. She loves working with young people and their parents to nurture and strengthen faith in the home. She keeps busy raising two young children, Calum (6 years) and Alena (3 years) with her husband and fellow pastor, Phillip Blackburn.

Amy Camp

Rev. Amy Lehr Camp is Parish Associate at Memorial Presbyterian Church, St. Augustine FL. She has a M.Div. and a Certificate in Spiritual Formation from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA. She has served in pastoral ministry in churches in Virginia and Florida since 2001. Her son William is a student at University of Florida (Go Gators!). Amy enjoys playing with her dog Bean, reading, and taking long walks and jogs on the beach.

Hunter Camp

Hunter Camp is the Pastor / Head of Staff at Memorial Presbyterian in St. Augustine, Florida. Hunter is a graduate of Flagler College and Columbia Theological Seminary from which he received both his Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees.
Prior to coming to Memorial, Dr. Camp served as the pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Green Cove Springs, Florida. He is active in the ministry of the larger church through the Presbytery of St. Augustine. He is a Columnist at The St. Augustine Record and enjoys surfing, reading, writing, bird watching, and Tai Chi in his spare time. He is married to the Reverend Amy Camp and they have one child, William.

Elizabeth Deibert

Rev. Elizabeth Deibert is the pastor of Peace Presbyterian Church in Lakewood Ranch, Florida. After graduating from the University of North Carolina with a Bachelors in Music Education, Elizabeth worked as a music teacher for a year, before following the call to ministry. She and husband, Richard, a physician, attended Columbia Theological Seminary, and after ordination, they served as co-pastors at Immanuel Presbyterian in Montgomery, Alabama from 1990-1999. She served as interim pastor of Faison Presbyterian Church in Faison, North Carolina before being called to serve as Peace Presbyterian’s founding pastor in 2005. Elizabeth has four children, is a Tarheel basketball fan, a flower gardener, and a lover of Montreat, the Presbyterian Conference Center in the N. Carolina Mountains as well as a talented musician.

Bob Griffiths

Bob is the former Chaplain at the Pines of Sarasota, southwest Florida’s oldest and largest not-for-profit senior care facility. Prior to joining the staff in 2010, Bob worked in hospice chaplaincy for seven years. He is the past Spiritual Life Director at St. Boniface Episcopal Church, Sarasota and is an Associate of the Order of the Holy Cross, an Episcopal Benedictine religious order.

Ann Herlin

The Reverend Ann Herlin is an Associate Pastor at the Old Presbyterian Meeting House in Alexandria, Virginia, where she has served since 2001.  Over the years here, Ann’s work has touched on many different areas, including mission, advocacy, adult education, young adults, membership, and pastoral care.  She was raised in Palacios, Texas, and received her BA from Yale University in 1993 and her Master of Divinity degree from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Prior to seminary, she taught first grade for two years in South Texas (as part of Teach for America), and then spent 16 months teaching English to elementary students in Costa Rica.  Ann and her husband are the parents of two preschool children, and she spends her “down time” visiting construction sites, making long lines of toy cars, playing princesses, doing crafts, building with Legos, and playing outside.

Mark Hults

Mark Hults is a graduate of Purdue University and the Columbia Theological Seminary. Early in his career Mark worked for the InterVarsity Ministries, and he is now serving as Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Green Cove Springs, Florida.

Roger Kunkel

Rev. Dr. Roger Kunkel was a native of Parsons, Kansas, graduated from Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, where he received an award for “Outstanding Student and Citizen”. After graduating from Princeton Theological Seminary, he earned a Doctor of Ministry degree from McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois, and went on to serve as Senior Pastor in Duluth, Minnesota, and Riverside, Illinois. He served as Chaplain of Heritage Park Rehab Center in Bradenton, Florida, after retiring from his pastorate at First Presbyterian Church of Sarasota in 1998. In his first pastorate, Roger was named “Outstanding Man of the Year” by the Duluth Jaycees. In his Chicago pastorate he was named “Man of the Year” by the Riverside Chamber of Commerce. He has also served as the Chaplain of the Sarasota Saint Andrew Society. During his pastorate in Sarasota, Florida, Roger initiated the Stephen Ministry, the Dial Hope Ministry, and an annual Festival of Faith. On September 9th of 2007, the 7th anniversary of the Dial Hope Ministry was celebrated with a “Festival of Hope”. June 28, 2010 marked 51 years in ministry for Roger. Roger and his wife Char together raised five children, and have seven grandchildren. Roger enjoyed people, cars, creative writing, leading retreats, sports, and creating havoc in the kitchen. A sermon by Roger once entitled, “How to be Outrageously Happy!” As founder of the Dial Hope ministry Roger always chose the less traveled path, always explored new ways to reach out to those in need and new ways to encourage people to trust in God. He introduced Jesus to us as a friend and a guide and a healer. Though Roger has “graduated,” as he often referred to death, his Dial Hope ministry will remain vibrant and strong. We have many TA-DAH! moments before us, and with your continued help and support we will continue to build on the solid foundation Roger created.

Charles Landreth

Charles (Charlie) Landreth served 20 years as a pastor in churches in Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina.  He also worked 20 years in the field of community mental health where he served as a Community Health Administrator for Florida State Government, and as Executive Director of the Florida Council for Mental Health in Jacksonville, Florida.  After officially retiring in 2005, Charlie served five interim pastorates.
As an honorably retired minister in the Presbytery of St. Augustine, Charlie now resides at Westminster Woods in Saint Johns, Florida.  He reports that it is like living on a cruise ship with a wonderful variety of people and new things to do each day. Charlie enjoys exercise at the gym, walking, reading contemporary fiction, and computer technology.

Andy Odom

The Rev. Andrew S. Odom grew up in Dallas, Texas and currently serves as senior pastor of Canyon Creek Presbyterian Church, a large and vibrant congregation in Richardson. He and his wife Denise, who is also a pastor, have two girls, Marguerite and Mackenzie. He holds degrees in economics and history from the University of Texas and completed his Master of Divinity degree at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
After graduating seminary, they went to Second Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, Indiana for a two-year residency program that, in Andy’s opinion, held some of the most formative years he has known. They followed that with a move to Bartlesville, Oklahoma, where Andy service 8½ years as the pastor of First Presbyterian Church, a mid-sized congregation in the heart of cattle and oil country.
When not spending time with family, Andy enjoys fishing, bird hunting, and playing golf. He is also a private pilot and, although he has not flown in a while, hopes to be able to get back up in the air someday.

Eric Wogen

Pastor Eric Wogen was born in Chicago, Illinois, and claims mid-western roots, even though he lived in many different places while growing up due to his father’s employment with the Pennsylvania Railroad. A graduate of Radnor High School in suburban Philadelphia, he received an AB in History from Gettysburg College and a MDiv degree from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. His first call was to a wonderfully affirming congregation in Sellersville, PA, St. John’s Lutheran Church, Ridge Valley, where he joyfully served until being called as Assistant to the Bishop of the Southeastern Synod (LCA). He returned to parish ministry in 1979 when he was called to serve St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Hanover, PA. After more than twenty years at St. Matthew, he was called by St. Armand’s Key Lutheran Church in Sarasota, Florida to be its pastor and served there until his retirement in 2008.
Pastor Wogen and his wife Sandy, who presently reside in Sarasota, have two sons and four grandsons.In retirement, he has remained actively involved in various ministries by serving on a number of Boards and Committees, doing an interim ministry assignment and preaching when requested. Providing messages for DIAL HOPE, when needed, is a privilege he enjoys. He relishes the arrival of each new day and looks forward to the many opportunities those days bring to share God’s love with others.