Charlie Drew is with us for the 2021-22 ministry year as our principal preacher while we conduct our search for a new senior pastor. He did his undergraduate work at Harvard and earned his M. Div. at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He has pastored churches in Charlottesville VA, Stony Brook NY, and the Upper West Side, where he founded Emmanuel Presbyterian Church in 2000 and from which he retired in 2017. Since retirement Charlie has taught pastors and seminarians at Redeemer City to City and served on the board of the Washington DC based Center for Christian Civics. Charlie has published “The Ancient Love Song: Finding Christ in the Old Testament,” “A Journey Worth Taking: Finding Your Purpose in this World” and “Surprised by Community: Republicans and Democrats in the Same Pew”. Charlie is married to Jeannie and has two children (his daughter Sarah played Dr. April Kepner on Grey’s Anatomy for many years) and four grand children. He loves music, singing, and daysails regularly during the summer months out of Larchmont in lower Westchester.