| Meet our Staff |
The Rev. Karen Rohrer is the director of the Center for Adaptive and Innovative Ministry at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and a PCUSA pastor. Before moving to Pittsburgh, she was the founding co-pastor of Beacon Church in Philadelphia where she became dog parent to the winsome pit bull, Melody, and the wife of the Rev. Andy Greenhow, Presbyterian pastor and life-sized cartoon. She proudly serves on the New Worshiping Communities Commission of Pittsburgh Presbytery, the Task Force of Commonwealth of Oakland, the Mission Development Resources Committee of the General Assembly (PCUSA), as well as serving as a coach and a leadership assessor with the 1001 New Worshiping Communities movement. Her first edited book, Sustaining Grace: Innovative Ecosystems for New Faith Communities, came out summer 2020 from Wipf & Stock. She is a graduate of the University of Mary Washington and Princeton Theological Seminary and is a current student in the Doctor of Ministry in Creative Writing and Public Theology focus at Pittsburgh Seminary. |
Karie Charlton, Interim Program Coordinator The Rev. Karie Charlton is the interim program coordinator for the Center for Adaptive and Innovative Ministry. She graduated from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in 2008 with a master of divinity degree. |
Dr. Scott Hagley joined the Pittsburgh Seminary faculty in 2015. Formerly, he served as director of education at Forge Canada in Surrey, British Columbia, where he worked to develop curriculum for the formation of missional leaders in hubs across Canada. He also served as teaching pastor at Southside Community Church, a multi-site church in the Vancouver metro area organized around neighborhood-based missional communities. Dr. Hagley received a B.A. in youth ministry and communication from Bethel University, an M.Div. from Regent College, and a Ph.D. (with distinction) in congregational mission and leadership from Luther Seminary. His doctoral dissertation attended to the lived theology of an urban congregation in its public, evangelical, and missional dimensions. Dr. Hagley has also taught courses at Augsburg College, Rochester College, Bethel University, and Luther Seminary, and previously he was a consultant and researcher with Church Innovations Institute. His most recent book is Eat What is Set Before You: A Missiology of the Congregation in Context (Urban Loft, 2019). |
Karen Rohrer, Director
Scott Hagley, W. Don McClure Associate Professor of World Mission and Evangelism