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Rev.
Phillip Steinbach was appointed as Associate Pastor of Sierra Vista in
September of 2010. He is a native of San Antonio. He lived in Houston and
Austin before entering vocational ministry in June 2000.
Prior to ministry Phillip had an 18-year career with IBM.
He is a graduate of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
where he earned the Master of Divinity degree in May 2000.
He is continuing his theological education at APTS and is
currently pursuing a Doctor of Ministry degree.
Phillip
is coming home. He lived in
West Texas
for seven years, previously serving churches in Mertzon and Christoval.
Between 2007 and joining Sierra Vista, he was the pastor of First UMC in
Yoakum
,
TX
and of Hope UMC.
Phillip
currently serves on the District Superintendency Committee in the Victoria
District, the Conference Board of Church and Society, chair of the Yoakum
Ministerial Alliance, member of the Board of Directors for the Yoakum
chapter of Hands on Housing, and member of the Board of Directors of the
Golden Cresent CASA.
Phillip
and Debbie Steinbach have been married for 33 years and have one adult
son, David. Debbie is a CPA
and a partner in an accounting firm in Austin. She spends about half of
her ‘working time’ at home by ‘tele-commuting’ and about half of
her time in Austin
.
Debbie
is a singer and participates in the music ministry at SVUMC.
She
is also involved in church leadership in the Southwest Texas Annual
Conference, having served on the Council on Finance and Administration
for eight years, and she is currently serving on the Board of Pensions and
Health Benefits and on the conference Audit Committee.
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