Guiding Grief Podcast hosted by Nicholas J Welzenbach with Guest Jack Longley

Guiding Grief

Jack Longley is proud to be a Hoosier, born and raised in South Bend, Indiana. He could view the gold dome of Notre Dame from his home. He graduated from John Adams High School in 1955, from Bethel College in 1959 and from Southern California School of Theology in 1976. He began youth ministry on March 1, 1959 with an organization called Youth for Christ in St. Petersburg, Florida. And continued that ministry in Portland, Oregon in 1965. In 1969 he was called to be Minister of Youth in the large Arcadia Presbyterian Church in Arcadia, California where he served for 9 years. Ordained in the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. in May, 1976. In 1978 became pastor of the Trinity Presbyterian Church in San Jose where he served for nearly 31 years. He celebrated 60 years of ministry on March 1st of this year. Since "retirement" in 2009 he has served three congregations as interim pastor--Westminster Presbyterian Church for 2 1/2 years; Onnuri (Korean) Presbyterian Church as English Pastor for 2 3/4 years; and the Taiwanese-American Presbyterian Church as English Pastor since October 2016. This will end on March 31st of this year. He was married to Irma Washmuth in South Bend, Indiana on June 7, 1959 and were to be married nearly 59 years until her unexpected and sudden death last March. They have two daughters, Christine and Robin; three grandchildren, Tara, Jacqueline, and Kristopher; and four great-grandchildren, Roman, Margot, Jayla, and Athena. He have one sister who resides in Union, Kentucky. Currently resides at El Sombrero Oaks Retirement Community in Los Gatos which originally was designed for retired Presbyterian Clergy until purchased by the Episcopal Church in 2005.