Speaker Profile
Dean Weaver
Stated Clerk of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (USA)
About Dean Weaver
The Rev. Dr. D. Dean Weaver has been married to his wife Beth for 30 years, and they live in Pittsburgh, PA. The Weavers have seven children: Hannah (29), who is married to John; Jacob (27); Rachel (25), who is married to Evan; Tommy (25); Isaac (24); Sarah (22); and Isatu (20). Three of the Weaver’s children are natural born; three are adopted internationally (Sierra Leone, West Africa; St. Vincent and the Grenadines, West Indies) and one domestic. The Weavers have two grand-daughters, Nora (3) and Caroline (1) born to Hannah and John.
Dr. Weaver is the Stated Clerk of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. He was the Lead Pastor of Memorial Park, an Evangelical Presbyterian Church in the North Hills of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Weaver currently also served as Dean of the Chapel at Grove City College, Grove City PA and is the Chairman of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church’s National Leadership Team. Weaver was the Moderator of the EPC’s 37th General Assembly (2017) and is currently the C0-Chair’ the EPC’s “Revelation 7:9 Task Force”. He has previously served as the Moderator of the EPC’s Presbytery of the Alleghenies. Dr. Weaver was one of the founders and former Co-Moderator of the New Wineskins Association of Churches and served as the Co-Chair of the New Wineskins/EPC Joint Commission.
Dr. Weaver is also one of the founders and former President of EduNations, a 501©3 not-for-profit organization that builds and operates schools in Sierra Leone, Africa. To date, EduNations has built and operates 15 schools, educating over 3,000 children in one of the poorest countries in the world. He has also been instrumental in the founding of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Sierra Leone (EPC-SL), which now has six congregations and 18 preaching stations in the rural, northern, Muslim majority region of the country. Visit EduNations.org to learn more this important work.
Dr. Weaver is a 1986 graduate of Grove City College (Bachelor of Arts, History and Religion); Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (Masters of Divinity); and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (Masters of Theology, Preaching and a Doctor of Ministry, Preaching).