Newlife Staff

"An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient. Since an overseer is entrusted with God's work, he must be blameless—not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain." Titus 1:6-7

StevefSteve Froehlich, Pastor

Steve has served as Pastor of New Life Presbyterian since 1998. In his prior position, he served as Executive Vice President of Reformed Theological Seminary and as Assistant Pastor to the congregation of Highlands Presbyterian Church in Jackson, MS. Pastor Froehlich completed undergraduate studies in theatre, and graduate studies in theology and pastoral ministry. He serves as board president of Chesterton House center for Christian Studies at Cornell University and is a member of the Ithaca City School District's Key Communicators Team. His interests include the intersection of Christianity and the arts, especially literature and film. He and his wife Sheryl have three sons and one grandson.

KarlKarl E. Johnson, Elder

Karl is Director of Chesterton House, and a doctoral candidate in Cornell's Department of Natural Resources. Johnson previously served as program director for Cornell Outdoor Education, where he designed Cornell's Hoffman Challenge Course, provided leadership development programs for corporations such as JP Morgan Chase, and served as a trainer, consultant, and expert witness in the outdoor education field. Johnson has received several writing awards, including a 1995 Amy Award for writing in religion, and was recognized as a 1999 Academy of Leisure Sciences Future Scholar. His interests include human relations with the natural landscape, from wilderness to urban environs. He and his wife has five children and have been featured in the Ithaca Journal.

davidDavid Williamson, Elder

David received his Ph.D. in computer science from M.I.T. in 1993. He joined Cornell University in 2004 with a joint appointment with the School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering and Computer and Information Science (CIS). Before joining Cornell, Williamson was the Senior Manager of the Computer Science Principles and Methodologies Department at the IBM Almaden Research Center. From 1995 - 2000 he was a Research Staff Member at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He was also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and Cornell University in 1998, as well as a lecturer at MIT in 2000 and at Stanford in 2003. His primary research interest has been in the design and analysis of polynomial time algorithms for the approximate solution of hard problems in discrete optimization, especially problems arising in network design, scheduling, facility, location, and routing.