Our Pastor
Rev. Schwertley is a 1984 graduate of Reformed Episcopal Seminary, Philadelphia, PA, with a Master of Divinity. Beginning in 1995 he served as Associate Pastor-elect for Church Planting at the Southfield Reformed Presbyterian Church in Southfield, MI (Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America) and was ordained as Teaching Elder by the Great Lakes-Gulf Presbytery of the RPCNA in 1996. He labored as a church planter in the Reformation Fellowship (RPCNA) Mission Church, Lansing, MI, from 1995-2000. During this time he started several local outreaches: Reformation Campus Ministries (MSU), Reformation Forum Cable TV Program, and Bible studies in East Lansing, Hartland, Ypsilanti, and Grand Rapids. He has been a guest preacher at over a dozen RPCNA and other reformed churches across the country. Pastor Schwertley has also been a featured speaker at The Puritan Project Conference in Brazil in June 2001, Greenville Seminary Worship Conference (Debate on Exclusive Psalmody) in Greenville, SC in March 2003 and RPCUS Family Conference (Establishing a Christian Home) in Bluefield, VA in June 2003 and June 2004 (Christian Self-Control). Pastor Schwertley was received as a teaching elder in the Reformed Presbyterian Church in the United States in January 2001 and was the organizing pastor of Chalcedon Christian Church in Haslett, MI. Rev. Schwertley was installed as the pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church of Waupaca County, WI (Westminster Presbyterian Church in the United States) in August 2004.
Brian has authored a number of
scholarly books and monographs and has been published in The
Christian Statesman, The Homeschool Digest,
Semper Reformanda, Chalcedon Report, The Puritan Journal of Brazil, The
New Southern Presbyterian Review and The Counsel
of Chalcedon.
Pastor Schwertley's works have been translated into several languages
including Portuguese, German, Italian, Danish and Swedish, and are
being used by churches around the world. Brian and his wife Andrea,
have been married for 22 years and have five children, all of
whom are
homeschooled. Pastor Schwertley can be reached at bschwertley@mwwb.net or
(715)445-2535.
Brian, has now updated his site, to show that he was in the
CRPC. However, it shows that Brian's intent was to hide the
facts. Can anyone trust a Minister that will distort the facts?