Rev. Bill Coleman
Pastor

Pastor Bill Coleman began serving as pastor of St. Paul’s in September 2021. He grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania with his parents and two brothers.  He attended St. Bonaventure University in Western New York, and he finished his BA in accounting at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he met his wife, Amy.  Bill and Amy were married in 1996 and they moved to the Northern Virginia area, where Amy was an elementary schoolteacher, and Bill worked as a financial auditor and financial analyst in Washington, D.C.  After his years in accounting, he was called into the ministry and began the candidacy process to become a pastor in the Metro D.C. Synod.

The Coleman family, including children Brennan and Emma, attended seminary from 2000 to 2004 at the Lutheran Seminary at Gettysburg in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania while Bill completed a Master of Divinity.  During their third year in seminary, the Coleman family completed a pastoral internship year at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Kansas City, Missouri.  After Bill graduated from seminary, he was called to serve two Lutheran churches in Sidman and Summerhill, Pennsylvania in the Allegheny Synod.  The Coleman family then moved to Erie Pennsylvania, where Amy was born and raised, and it was there Bill served at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church and Trinity Lutheran Church for an interim year. He was then called to Luther Memorial Church in Erie, where he served as Senior Pastor for fourteen years before being called to St. Paul’s in 2021.

Bill and Amy’s son, Brennan is a 2020 graduate from the University of Pittsburgh.  He is currently working in the City of Pittsburgh Mayoral Office as the Operations Administrator of the Office of Community Health and Safety in the City of Pittsburgh.  Their daughter Emma is a first-year student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where she is pursuing a nursing degree.  Bill and Amy also have a 10-year-old goldendoodle dog named Marley.  Bill’s family continues to live in the Scranton area and his one brother lives in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.  Bill and Amy have many friends in the Philadelphia area, and they are excited to reconnect with those friendships.  Bill is very interested in all things historical and is looking forward to immersing himself in all that the Philadelphia area has to offer.  Bill is also interested in reading, walking, running, and cooking.  He strives to follow the two great commandments of Jesus, to love God and to love our neighbor as ourselves.