The Reverend Norman A. Koop, Th.M. became the teaching elder/pastor of FCCW in 1990. He was born April 8, 1946 in Philadelphia, raised in a Christian home, exposed to the teaching of such outstanding exponents of the Reformed Tradition as Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse, Dr. Frank E. Gaebelein, Dr. Mariano DiGangi, and Dr. James Montgomery Boice. His educational background includes The Stony Brook School, Eastern College, Eastern Baptist Seminary, and Princeton Theological Seminary from which he was granted the degrees of Master of Divinity and Master of Theology. As a seminarian he served as Student Assistant at Tenth Church in Philadelphia gaining invaluable teaching experience in that landmark of Reformed Theology. In 1973 he was called as pastor to the historic Deerfield Presbyterian Church in New Jersey. He pastored there for 16 years before coming to Woodstock, Vermont. Mr. Koop is married with three grown children and three grandchildren.