Jennifer (Jennie) Atchison’s spirtual home has been at Arch Street Presbyterian Church since 2009.  Dr. Atchison has prayed, sung, grieved, and celebrated with this congregation. [read more...]

Jim Ballengee has been a member of Arch Street since 2011 and was in the first class of elders as the church grew again. He has served two terms on session, the Mission and Outreach Committee and numerous other roles at the church. In addition, he has participated in leadership as moderator of the Presbytery of Philadelphia this year and previously as moderator of the Commission on Ministry for the three previous years. Outside of the church, Jim has been involved with one of the church’s mission partners, St. James School, since their founding and is a board member of The Christopher Ludwick Foundation. He is a retired educator living in Chestnut Hill with 3 adult daughters and 2 grandchildren. [read more...]

Lawyer H. Chapman is a ruling elder who also serves as a member of the Personnel, Stewardship, Finance, Outreach, Building, and Nominating Committees.  His wife, Deacon Rosetta Chapman, has served several terms as a deacon.  They have been members of ASPC for fourteen years.   [read more...]

Sandra Danner moved to Center City from Delaware County, PA 11 years ago when she accepted a Safety Manager position with the City of Philadelphia. She transferred her membership from Thomas M. Thomas Memorial Presbyterian Church to Arch Street in 2022. She retired from the City in October 2023. She was ordained an elder at Thomas M. Thomas and as a Presbyterian Deacon when she lived in Pittsburgh, PA (Grace Memorial Presbyterian Church). She has been an active member of Presbyterian Churches for most of her adult life (she was a Baptist for 7 years in California). [read more...]

Kristen Lynch grew up in northern Jersey, but then did a circle around the country living in Boston, San Francisco and Dallas (yes, her kids are Cowboy fans) before returning to the area 15 years ago to take a faculty position at the University of Penn.  Until 2020, she lived exclusively in Bucks County where she raised her kids (now 21 and 26) and was a member and elder of Newtown Presbyterian Church.  Once her youngest left for college, she moved to Philly to avoid the long commute and has been shifting more and more of her life from the suburbs to the city ever since.  She found ASPC in the summer of 2020, at the height of Zoom church, looking for a church home that better represented my understanding of God's calling on us as Christians. [read more...]

Rosalyn K. Robinson spent her formative years in Conshohocken, PA, having graduated from Conshohocken High School and having been baptized in St. Paul’s Baptist Church. She has lived in Philadelphia since 1973 and currently resides in Center City. She is a retired Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas judge. Rosalyn is married to Warren B. English. She is s trustee emerita of her undergraduate college, Dickinson College; she is a member of the Arden Theater’s Board and also belongs to three women’s clubs. [read more...]