The Rev. Vinod Gnanaraj
Pastor
Pastor Vinod is an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ, Pennsylvania Conference. He has been serving the Lord for the past 24 years in varied capacities and ministerial settings both in the USA and India. He has served in hospital chaplaincy, Christian mission organization, urban and rural congregations and taught in theological seminaries. In the USA, Pastor Vinod has served as a pastor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Bronx, New York and in the Presbytery of Genesee Valley of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in upstate New York.
Outside of his pastoral work, Pastor Vinod loves to learn about local culture, visit historical places and listen to contemporary gospel music. He is also working on his doctoral dissertation in pastoral theology from PrincetonTheological Seminary.
Paul graduated in 1969 with a Bachelor of Music degree from Ithaca College. Following college he moved to New York City and played piano in a jazz trio in downtown Manhattan. He then moved to Florida and continued playing jazz piano and began teaching private music lessons on the piano before joining the Grace United Methodist Church in Cape Coral and became their music assistant and directed their large scale full orchestra/choir Christmas cantatas. When an opportunity arose he became the assistant music director for the Burnt Store Presbyterian Church. Later joined the First Presbyterian Church of Port Charlotte, became the Director of Worship Arts before coming to Holy Trinity where he overseas both the praise and contemporary music as well as leads a yearly cantata with full choir and orchestra
Dennis can be seen every Sunday, quietly working in the sound room where he not only oversees the sound in the sanctuary but also controls the video and audio streaming that is transmitted over the web.
When not in the sound room Dennis can be seen working around our beautiful campus cutting grass and trimming.
Tracy serves as our office administrator and bookkeeper. She has dozens of years of experience in finance and office management having previously worked in both banking and a large school district in Texas.
Joyce McCabe is our part-time office manager. She handles the day to day office operations ranging from phone calls to preparing bulletins and more. Joyce is a lifelong Christian with decades of experience as a church office manager. Spend 5 minutes with Joyce and you'll walk away a better person thanks to her engaging smile and caring heart.