L. Allen Viehmeyer, Ph. D.

L. Allen Viehmeyer, Ph. D., is Associate Director of Research at the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center. A 1971 graduate of the University of Illinois Urbana / Champaign with a doctorate in German philology, his specialty is German-American culture with focus on German immigrants in southeastern Pennsylvania. His publications focus on the music manuscript of the Ephrata Cloister and eighteenth-century Schwenkfelder life and culture.

Linda Stuckrath Gottschalk, Ph.D.

Linda Stuckrath Gottschalk is a missionary with Eastern Mennonite Missions, serving Ukrainian refugees together with her husband in Bucharest, Romania. Earlier, she taught and served as librarian for some years at Tyndale Theological Seminary in the Netherlands, also earning her PhD in church history at Leiden University. Her research interests include sixteenth-century religious movements and figures such as Schwenkfeld and his descendants, which is what attracted her to the Weiss catechism project. She has written, Pleading for Diversity: The Church Caspar Coolhaes Wanted. (Vandhenhoek and Rupprecht, 2017)

H. H. Drake Williams, III, Ph.D.

Drake Williams is Minister of Mission and Theology at Central Schwenkfelder Church and Associate Professor of New Testament at Evangelische Theologische Faculteit in Leuven, Belgium. He has edited Caspar Schwenckfeld: Eight Writings on Christian Beliefs (Pandora, 2001). He grew up in the Schwenkfelder Church and is ordained in the denomination. He continues his interest in their historical beliefs. He is the coordinator of the Weiss Catechism Translation Project.

Grant Gebbie

Grant has been studying German ever since high school, where he realized that he had a deep passion for the language. He completed his University studies at the University of Stirling (Scotland) focusing on German language and literature. He works as a tour guide for German speakers to Scotland. Grant participated in the translation team for Caspar Schwenckfeld: Eight Writings on Christian Beliefs (Pandora, 2001). He has been transliterating the Weiss catechism since 2022.

Rick Kriebel

Rick Kriebel is a Schwenkfelder descendant who rediscovered the church during his own spiritual journey. Rick has been an active Christian throughout his adult life, attending church on a regular basis and volunteering in Cru during his twenties. He is a graduate of both Grove City College and the Cooperstown Graduate Program . Professionally, he is a historian who has worked and volunteered at a number of different museums, including the Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center, Valley Forge National Historical Park, the Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation, and the Landis Valley Museum. He is currently the Manager of Collections and Programs at the Newtown History Center in Stephens City, VA.

David W. McKinley, D. Min.

Dr. McKinley has been Senior Minister at Central Schwenkfelder Church since 2005. He has received his D.Min. from Missio Seminary and a Th.M. from Westminister Theological Seminary. In his doctoral studies, he wrote on the importance of historical catechisms. He also contributed to Caspar Schwenckfeld: Eight Writings on Christian Beliefs (2001).