“Questions Jesus Asks Us”

 Rev. Joseph F. DiPaolo was born and raised in the New York City area, and earned degrees from Lafayette College, Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Princeton Theological Seminary.  

               It was while in college that he had a life-changing encounter with Jesus Christ, and began a journey that led him into pastoral ministry. 

               Ordained a deacon in 1988 and elder in 1990, DiPaolo is a clergy member of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church, and has. He has served as a pastor and preacher in four area congregations since 1985, nursing home chaplain, and senior chaplain of the Ocean City (NJ) Tabernacle Association.

               He is active in national and world Methodist, ecumenical and community affairs, has served on the Board of Trustees of the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Myerstown, Pennsylvania since 2004, teaches as an adjunct professor at Palmer Theological Seminary in Philadelphia.

               In addition to his ministerial work, DiPaolo is an avid amateur historian, contributing articles on local and church history to regional and national publications, and serving as president of the Historical Society of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church.

               He is also editor of the historical journal Annals of Eastern Pennsylvania, which commenced annual publication in the spring of 2004.

               He currently lives in Wayne, Pennsylvania with his wife, Susan, and their three children, Christina, Laura and Timothy.