Ron has served as Pastor of MPC since the summer of 2004. He has been an ordained Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (USA) for more than 20 years, during which time he served as a solo pastor and a senior pastor/head of staff in 2 churches in central Illinois, and was moderator of the Presbytery of Great Rivers.. In the 7 years immediately prior to his coming to MPC he was Pastor to Ministers and Their Families for the Presbytery of Philadelphia, and Parish Associate at the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church.

A former church musician and conductor, he is a graduate of Olivet College (Olivet, MI) with a BA in Church Music and of the School of Music at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) where he received a Master of Music degree in conducting. Following a career in church music, he attended seminary at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Lombard, IL and at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. His Doctor of Ministry thesis (at NBTS) focused on the application of narrative theology to the theological education of adults in the church.

Ron and his wife, Ida, live in Yardley, PA. Ida is a special education teacher for the Radnor Township School District and teaches at the Ithan Elementary School in Bryn Mawr, PA. They have 2 grown sons Josh (a junior at Rutgers University majoring in journalism), and Zach (a film-maker with his MFA from the University of Edinburgh) who is married to Frances, Presbyterian minister and graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary. Zach and Frances currently live in Tucson, AZ where she is director of the Presbyterian Campus Ministry Center at the University of Tucson. Ron and Ida also have a golden retriever whose AKC registered name is Good Golly Miss You-Know-Who. Molly is currently enthusiastically involved in an ongoing project to train the entire the Rosenau family to let her in and out of the house on her command.

Ron’s interests include cooking (ratatouille, anyone?) and art (especially the French impressionists. He has traveled to the Burgundy region of France for a pilgrimage to Taizé and is drawn to both the music and the spirituality of the ecumenical community centered there. Ron has taught workshops on planning and leading Taizé prayer services, and has introduced this form of worship to the MPC community since his coming here.

Trent Hancock has served MPC as Associate Pastor since 2004. A graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary (1996), Trent previously served as co-pastor of the McConnellsburg United Presbyterian Church, and as an Army Chaplain, serving with the 101st Airborne Division in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Trent is married to Presbyterian minister and Princeton Theological Seminary Ph.D. candidate (Homiletics), Angela Dienhart Hancock. They have two children, Alex, age 11 and Tess, age 9.

Trent is a candidate for the Doctor of Ministry degree at Princeton Theological Seminary studying the role of personal narratives of loss and theological faithfulness in the preaching of funeral sermons.

When not at church or the library, Trent enjoys listening to and making music, following news and politics and cycling along the Delaware Canal.