Introducing our new Pastor Bruce Judy

I was born 10/07/1955 and raised in Port Vue, on the hill overlooking McKeesport, PA. I was raised Catholic until I was 13 and then we quit church for almost a year and then our parents gave us a choice between the Catholic or Methodist church and we chose the United Methodist in Port Vue.  A year later I distinctly remember a calling to be a minister at the age of 14.  But the journey had only begun.  Played baseball, chased girls, and eventually got married while working in a steel foundry in Glassport.  The steel mills went away and we lost everything including our car and house.  Thank you Lord for family.  Ended up working for Jefferson Hospital for 5 years while living across the street from my mom and dad raising our 4 children.  Life was good! 

God called me again, very loudly, during a charge conference meeting at Port Vue UMC with our DS Rev J. Lavon Kincaid.  I was 35 years old at the time.  I entered the process and went to Waynesburg College for my BA in psychology and then on to MTSO to get my MDiv. We were appointed July 1 1993 to Rogersville UMC in Greene County for 12 years, then 4 years to Cochranton UMC in Erie, 7 years to Carmichaels UMC and then to our current appointment here at Irwin First UMC.  We are currently in our 8th year here as of 2023.   

We have 4 children and 7 grandchildren.  Our 3 oldest children, Justin, Jacob, and Hannah, are United Methodist pastors here in WPAUMC and our youngest son, Caleb, is a licensed therapist in Rhode Island.