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I am an ordained elder in the Western New York Conference of the United Methodist Church.  I retired July 1, 2004.  I served as Interim Pastor from August 2006 to June 2007 at Fredonia First United Methodist Church.  On March 15, 2009 I was consecrated as Pastor Emeritus and Visitation Pastor at Fredonia.  When called, I am open to preaching in other churches in our community.  I am confident that there are no small churches and no great preachers, only our great God!  My focus and goal is to be an encourager in the Christian faith!  At your convenience, please allow me the joy of hearing about your faith in Jesus Christ.  Oh Yes! Amen!  To God be all the glory!!!

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Casey Gray - Organist

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Casey R. Gray is currently a graduate student at the State University of New York College at Fredonia, pursuing the Master of Music Degree in Voice Performance as a student of Prof. Laurie Lasher Tramuta. In May 2009, he earned the Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music: Voice, cum laude from Bethany College where he was a Voice student of Prof. David J. Rudari. He is a native of Wheeling, WV, a 2005 graduate of Wheeling Park High School, and is the son of Jeff and Cindy Gray. Mr. Gray was the Senior Fellow for Spring 2009, and served for four years as accompanist for the Bethany College Choir and studio accompanist to Prof. Rudari.

In the summer of 2008, as the recipient of the Benjamin Chandler Shaw Travel Award, Mr. Gray spent three weeks at the Schlern International Music Festival in Fie all Schilar, in the Tyrol region of Italy, where he appeared in a number of solo recitals and ensemble programs. He has appeared as the Tenor soloist in the Bethany College Choir performances of excerpts from Händel's Messiah; in Dubois' The Seven Last Words of Christ, and as the Defendant in Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury. He was a member of the College Choir Quartet and he appeared in two theatre productions at Bethany. Mr. Gray is a Bethany Kalon Scholar, Kalon Society member, a member of Alpha Phi Omega, and was the President and Vice President of Phi Chapter, Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity at Bethany. Also, he is a member and past President of Sigma Tau Epsilon, the Bethany College Honor Society in Music. He received a Circle of Vision Scholarship Award through the Bernard McDonough Foundation, a Bethany College Music Service Scholarship, and the George Hauptfuerhrer Award for excellence in Music.

In addition to his Music studies at Bethany, Mr. Gray was, for four years, the Organ Scholar/Assistant Organist, and a Choral member at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Wheeling, WV; and a two-year scholarship recipient to the Royal School of Church Music, New York. A former Piano student of Mrs. Yih-Ching Wang Schoolar, and former Organ student of Mr. Robert F. Troeger of Wheeling, West Virginia, he has accompanied numerous solo, choral, and musical theatre performances in the Upper Ohio Valley. Moreover, he has appeared as a Cantor for St. Joseph's Cathedral, Wheeling, as part of their live Saturday night mass broadcast. Mr. Gray continues to be active as an accompanist, as well as, a church musician. He is a member of the Fredonia State Opera Theatre and the Fredonia College Choir.