Pastor Grdon Blickle
Pastor Gordon Blickle has been engaged in ministry for nearly 50 years. He has served as lead pastor at Pearl Rd. United Methodist Church in Cleveland, Faith United Methodist Church in Twinsburg, and Streetsboro United Methodist Church in Streetsboro.
Prior to those appointments he led youth and adult ministries at Strongsville UMC, was on the leadership team for the Arkansas Conference UMC for the Lay Servant Leader program, and led adult and youth ministries at Central UMC in Rogers, AR, St. James UMC in Tampa, FL, and several other churches. He was awarded the Bronze Pelican Award from the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and the Pro Deo Et Patria Award from the ELCA.
Pastor Blickle has a BSBA in Business Management from The Ohio State University, and MBA from the University of Central Florida, and has worked professionally for Sherwin-Williams, IBM, Glidden, The Boy Scouts of America, and as an adjunct professor at the University of Central Florida. Pastor Blickle is married to his wife Paula of 36 years, they have three sons and two grandchildren, and two labradoodles.
Pastor Blickle is a big fan of Ohio State football, Cleveland Browns/Guardians/Cavaliers, Tampa Bay Lightning hockey, and also Cincinnati Reds/Bengals (his home teams) and University of Central Florida Golden Knights (where he attended grad school and taught as Adjunct Professor).
Pastor Linda Bradley
Pastor Linda was born and raised in Springfield Twp outside of Akron and raised in the UMC. She was active in the UMC all of her life as an SPR Chair, Layleader, Church Treasurer and youth leader. She has an Associate Degree in Secretarial Science and a Bachelor's Degree in Adult Education as well as completed the Course of Study in the UMC
Pastor Linda has been married for 36 years and has two adult children and 3 grandsons and 3 grand-dogs. She serves on the Personnel Committee for the East Ohio Conference as well as a few sub committees that look at the idea of becoming one Ohio Conference.
Pastor Linda says, "With me pretty much what you see is what you get." She is a strong supporter of God, family and country as well as our military, police and fire. She aso has a passion for pastoral care.
In her free time she likes to read mysteries and Amish Fiction and enjoy movies. Her favorite Bible verse is Jeremiah 29:11. It kept her strong through her cancer battle several years ago.