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Marvin L. Derby

  • born Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • attended Minneapolis Business School
  • A.B. from Wheaton ; M. Divinity - Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, PA Attended Harvard Divinity School.
  • ordained Presbyterian Minister - 1938 at Calvin Presbyterian Church in New Haven, CT. on June 10,1938
  • served as pastor of Calvin Presbyterian Church 1938 - 1942
  • From Calvin went to a Presbyterian church in Cincinnati, OH
  • entered Congregational Church 1949
  • 1949 - 1958 - Church of Christ, Congregational, Bedford, MA
  • pastor of the Community Church in Medway, 1979 - 1988
  • arrived at Community Church full time on Feb. 1, 1979. Installed as Pastor - March 18, 1979. Resignation effective on June 26,1988 after 9 1/2 years of service.
  • Under his leadership:
    • mid-week prayer and bible study
    • building renovation - 1986- entire sanctuary repainted and renovated as well as additional work done on the parsonage and the Parish House
    • A celebration of the 50th anniversary of his ordination was held in Medway on June 5, 1988
  • Other churches served:
    • Williamson Memorial United Presbyterian Church, Burlington, Iowa
    • First United Presbyterian Church, Cambridge, MA
    • Church of Christ (Congregational), Bedford, MA
    • Evangelical Congregational Church, Easton, MA
    • 1963 - 1968 - served a 3 church parish ministry in Maine · · Hiram, Brownfield, and Denmark
    • associate pastor in Hopkinton for 5 years
  • Interim pastorates:
    • Norfolk Federated - 1 year
    • Bethany Congregational - 1 year
    • Pilgrim Congregational , Southborough - 6 months
    • United Church, Shirley - 3 months
    • Hopkinton Congregational - 13 months (1974)
  • served 14 churches during his 50 years in the ministry
  • died March 16, 2001
 
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