Our Team

Agnes W Norfleet
Pastor/Head of Staff

The Rev. Dr. Agnes W. Norfleet, was called to be the 8th pastor of Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church and began her ministry here in January, 2013. In addition to her pastoral and preaching ministry, her early years were focused on leading the church to greater fiscal health following a long interim season, working with laity to call a wonderful team of associate pastors, working with key leaders to assess campus wide needs for capital revitalization. The church launched the ambitious This Time This Place capital campaign and raised over $21 million to renovate the Education Building and Ministries Center, build the Atrium and add additional funds to our benevolences for support of youth mission trips and to strengthen local and global mission partnerships.

While preaching and administration are her primary roles at BMPC, Agnes has a special interest outreach and mission, and Christian education for all ages. She enjoys working with the wonderful team of colleagues the church has assembled for music leadership, pastoral ministry and program. Together with the leadership of 150th Vision Team the church celebrated its sesquicentennial by adopting a vision to strengthen our ministries as a community of welcome and service.

A graduate of Davidson College, and Union Presbyterian Seminary, she earned a D. Min. in Bible and Preaching from Columbia Theological Seminary. Ordained in 1987, she has previously served as Associate Pastor for Community Ministry at Central Presbyterian, Atlanta; Pastor of North Decatur Presbyterian Church in Decatur, GA., from 1992-2005, and Pastor of Shandon Presbyterian Church in Columbia, SC, from 2005-2012.

Agnes’ family includes her husband, Larry Arney, an architect who currently works with Project HOME, a Philadelphia non-profit organization working to alleviate homelessness; and two young adult sons, James and Winston. when they are away from Bryn Mawr, their family's center of gravity is their cottage in Montreat, NC, where they enjoy the beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains, hiking and hosting lifelong friends.

Rebecca Kirkpatrick
Associate Pastor for Adult Education & Mission

Rebecca grew up in Pittsburgh as a member of the East Liberty Presbyterian Church where her faith was shaped at an early age. It was here, where her parents have been active members for over 40 years, Rebecca began to understand the connection between faith and mission and where she first sensed a call to ministry. As a church youth, she traveled to Malawi and learned to value international ministry, especially mission done in partnership.

After graduation from George Washington University, and McCormick Theological Seminary, she was called to Sunnyside Presbyterian Church in South Bend, Indiana where she served as an associate pastor for ten years. In seminary, she met her husband, Joshua Yoder, also a theology student. Joshua holds a doctorate in New Testament studies from The University of Notre Dame.

Rebecca, Joshua and their son, Owen, served as mission co-workers with Presbyterian World Mission and The Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo, Egypt from 2013 - early 2015. While there, Rebecca instructed Masters of Divinity students in theological English, oversaw the development of online courses, offered resources for U.S. supporters and congregations, and hosted visiting groups engaging in mission partnerships.

Rebecca began her ministry with us in July 2015.

Rachel Pedersen
Associate Pastor for Children & Family Ministry

A cradle Presbyterian, Rachel was baptized in Newport News, Virginia, raised in Idaho, and has served the church in places as far as Ghana and South Africa. She was privileged to have served as a student minister at the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City. Before arriving here, Rachel was an associate pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Bloomington, Indiana. She studied International Relations at Carleton College in Minnesota and completed her Master of Divinity at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Moving from a life-long passion to walk with children in their faith journey, she completed her certification as a Christian Educator in 2012. You might just see her out walking her standard poodle, Basil. 

Rachel began her ministry with us in August 2014.