Matt Lake
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Matt Lake serves as the Lead Pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Williamsport, PA—an urban congregation that consists of a mix of traditional and contemporary worship experiences.
Matt Lake is a lead pastor and consultant who has decades of ministry experience. He is currently serving at First Church in Williamsport, PA (home of the Little League World series!). First Church is an urban congregation that consists of a mix of traditional, contemporary, and Fresh Expression worship experiences. First Church has spent years aligning around an intentional discipleship journey which simultaneously recognizes where people are in their discipleship journey and helps them grow into deeper discipleship moving forward to live out their God-given identity.
Matt is a graduate of Messiah College, has a Master in Divinity from Duke Divinity School and a Doctorate of Ministry centering on Semiotics and Future Studies through Portland Seminary. Matt has worked with a variety of churches, denominations, and traditions with Fresh Expressions U.S. and A.E. Sloan in order to focus upon adaptive leadership and congregational vitality. Matt is especially passionate about diving deeper into discipleship and desires to see God's Kingdom impacted through lives transformed in the love of Jesus Christ. Matt is happily in love with his beautiful wife Jennifer and does his best to keep up with his three amazing, and now grown-up, children--Alexandra, Josh, and Zach.