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About UsPastors | History | Vision | Library Indianola Presbyterian Church is a community of inquiry, prayer, and action. At IPC you will find an open and questioning spirit, a wide range of spiritual engagement, and a commitment to social justice in the world. The congregation is rich in ethnic and socioeconomic diversity, coming from virtually every walk of life. We come together because of shared spiritual needs and concerns about how God works in our lives. We are a community that empasizes the ministry of lay persons. We seek to be a place where ministry to families, youth singles, university students, staff, and faculty members flourishes. Come see and feel the Indianola difference! Rev. Dr. Sydney V. (Skip) Jackson, Ph.D.  Skip Jackson was called as Senior Pastor & Head of Staff at Indianola in 2000. He received his B.S. in 1970 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he majored in Chemistry. Awarded a National Science Foundation fellowship for graduate study, he attended the University of Maryland where he received a Ph.D. in Nuclear Chemistry in 1975, focusing on gamma-ray spectroscopy and nuclear decay scheme studies. He then worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, NM, for 12 years—first as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Nuclear Physics, then as a Staff Scientist in Laser Physics, and finally for eight years as a Staff Scientist in Energy Systems Analysis. He left Los Alamos in 1988 to study for the ministry. He received his Master of Divinity degree from San Francisco Theological Seminary in 1991 and was awarded the Martin Dwelle Kneeland Preaching Prize and the Alumi/ae Fellowship. Prior to coming to Indianola, Rev. Jackson served for nine years as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Lebanon, OR. While there he also served on the Council of Cascades Presbytery and chaired the presbytery's Committee on Ministry in Higher Education. Rev. Jackson has served on the Council of the Scioto Valley Presbytery and is presently a member of the presbytery's Committee on Ministry in Higher Education. He is a member of the University Interfaith Association at OSU. Skip has pursued continuing education in preaching, writing for worship, hymn writing, worship renewal, and contemporary spirituality. Rev. Dr. Susan Warrener Smith, Ph.D. (Rev. Smith retired effective August 31, 2009)  Susan Warrener Smith has been Associate Pastor at Indianola since 1996. She received her B.A. from Boston University where she majored in History of Art, and she received her M.A. in the same subject from the University of Michigan. She then received her Ph.D. in Theological and Religious Studies from Drew University where she concentrated in medieval theology and monastic spirituality. Prior to coming to Indianola, Rev. Smith served as Director of Christian Education and then as Temporary Supply for Congregational Nurture at First Presbyterian and Trinity Church in South Orange, NJ. She also served as Temporary Supply for Congregational Nurture, Director of the Kilburn Resource Center, and Christian Education consultant in the Presbytery of Newark. In addition, she taught religion as Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at Seton Hall University. Rev. Smith has published numerous articles in the Cistercian Studies Quarterly and has presented at the International Medieval Studies Congress. In the Presbytery of Scioto Valley she has served on the Division of Care of Churches and served as modersator of the Worship Committee. She is currently serving on the Committee on Preparation for Ministry and manages the labyrinth owned by the presbytery and synod. She served for many years as a board member of the Interfaith Center for Peace and at present is a member of the University Interfaith Association at OSU. She is a member of the Columbus chapter of the Torch Club and recently delivered a paper there entitled "Bernard of Clairvaux and Twelve-Step Spirituality." Rev. Olive Haynes, Ph.D. - Parish Associate  The Reverend Dr. Olive Haynes served as Minister of Mission at IPC from 1995 until her retirement in 2005. The granddaughter of two of the founding members of Indianola Presbyterian Church, she was involved with IPC at a very young age. Dr. Haynes received her Bachelors and Masters degrees from the Ohio State University in television and broadcasting and spent part of her career working in Public Television, including the local WOSU station. She returned to school to earn a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from Louisville University. During her career in ministry, Dr. Haynes has served congregations in Ohio, Illinois and San Diego, where she became very involved with AIDS ministry and helped establish two homes in California to care for those stricken with the disease. Along with her work with AIDS patients, Olive has served the mission fields of Mexico, Africa and China in the areas of healthcare. She has also been a trustee for Medical Benevolence Foundation (M.B.F.) for many years and was a driving force in arranging for the international meeting of the M.B.F. to be held at IPC in 2002. The History of Indianola PresbyterianOn July 4, 1909, the first service of what was to become Indianola Presbyterian Church was held in a tent pitched on a lot on the northeast corner of Fifteenth and Indianola Avenues. In November of that year, the Presbytery of Columbus granted permission for the organization of IPC, with 118 charter member constituting the congregation. After seven years of holding services in a house, the congregation built the main building of the present church at the intersection of Iuka, Waldeck and Eighteenth Avenues. On September 17, 1916, the congregation marched to the first service in its new building in a procession headed by a fife and drum corps. IPC grew steadily until it became the second largest Presbyterian church in Columbus, after Broad Street Presbyterian, with over 1400 members at mid-century. To accommodate the large membership and its many programs, in 1956 the congregation built Thompson Hall, dedicated “to the memory of the Reverend W.O. Thompson, D.D., President of The Ohio State University, 1899-1925, Moderator of the General Assembly, 1926, one of the founders of this Church.” Indianola Presbyterian Vision StatementResponding to God's love and leading in Christ,
Confessing our weakness, uncertainties, and failures, -Adopted by Session - January 15, 1997 |
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