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 pastor/head of staff in 2 churches in central Illinois. In 1994 he 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, Ron 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 lives of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and C. S. Lewis and the application of biographical 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 senior at Rutgers University majoring in journalism), and Zach (a film-maker with his MFA from the University of Edinburgh).  Zach is married to Frances who is Associate Pastor at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Albany, NY.

Ron 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.  In 2008 he was a participant in the Summer Program in Theology at Christ Church, Oxford University, focusing on the prophet Jeremiah and the metaphysical poetry of John Donne.

Trent has served MPC as Associate Pastor since 2004. 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 and Tess.

In May, 2010 Trent was awarded the degree of Doctor of Ministry from Princeton Theological Seminary. His final project studied the role of personal narratives of loss and theological faithfulness in the preaching of funeral sermons.

Trent currently serves as Moderator of the Committee on Preparation for Ministry of the Presbytery of Philadelphia.