Pastor Carl

Pastor Carl's Installation.

 

Carl Howard has served as pastor of Little Falls Church since January 2004.

A 2003 Master of Divinity graduate from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., he became a member of the Shenandoah Presbytery in February 2004 and was ordained that month. Graduating from seminary with honors, he received the “Excellence in Biblical Interpretation” award from Wesley Seminary. His seminary fieldwork was carried out at the Clifton (VA) Presbyterian Church during the 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 academic years. During 2003, he served as a chaplain at the University of Maryland Hospital Center in Baltimore and at the Ingleside at Rock Creek Presbyterian Retirement Center in Washington, D.C. 

Pastor Carl’s previous career was as a Foreign Service Officer for the United States Information Agency and the Department of State. He and his wife Beverly served overseas for 20 years of that career, in Brazil (12 years in all), Portugal, Colombia and Vietnam. They were lay leaders in English-speaking churches throughout their overseas assignments. 

Overseas, Pastor Carl was embassy spokesman and directed U.S. official media, educational and cultural relations. In Washington assignments, he directed public-affairs programs and staffs at embassies throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. He also directed a program that gave grants to American nonprofit organizations for professional and youth exchanges overseas, oversaw officially-sponsored arts-related exhibitions and exchanges abroad, and directed a program that provided American expert speakers for embassy-sponsored exchange programs. Additionally, he supervised staffs and programs responsible for American libraries overseas, official book translation programs in other countries, cultural centers, and the teaching of English as a Second Language programs sponsored by the U.S. Government. While in Washington in 1978-79, he was among senior military and civilian officials granted a year’s master’s degree-level study in national security issues at the National War College of the National Defense University.

Pastor Carl holds bachelors and masters degrees in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. A native of Texas, he was an editor and writer at the Houston (TX) Chronicle and the National Observer, a weekly national newspaper edited in Silver Spring, MD,  by Dow Jones & Company. At the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, Peru, he studied Latin American culture and languages. He and Beverly speak Spanish and Portuguese.

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