Peter Castles
Peter Castles has been pastor of Cedar Park First UMC since June, 2010. He served as pastor of three other Austin-area United Methodist churches before coming to Cedar Park. Peter and his wife Pam, who is a Wesley Nurse in Austin, have two daughters, a son-in-law, and a grandson.
Interesting tidbits about Peter:
- Dream vacation: Traveling through Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.
- What’s your regular order at Starbucks: tall Caffe Latte (in fact, at one point the church youth group called me “Pastor Latte”)
- Favorite movie: King of Hearts
- Life motto: Love is all you need.
- Favorite scripture: “I believe; help my unbelief!” (Mark 9:24)
- Previous jobs: Youth minister (right out of college) and after that, a commercial architect in Houston, Texas for 17 years
- Music that moves me: Anything Jodi Blount plays on Sunday
- Favorite book: The Bible (duh!)
- In my spare time I . . . read a lot; also, my wife and I enjoy watching any good British TV show mystery
- Least favorite food: For some reason, I’m not all that crazy about sweet potatoes
- What makes you laugh: Church people can be pretty hilarious a lot of the time.
- What’s weird about you: I can act like a complete goof-ball sometimes
- Least favorite thing to do: I absolutely hate cleaning out the cat litter box!
- Least known thing about you: My father, my wife, both our daughters, and I are or will be graduates of the University of Texas at Austin (Hook’em!)
Jodi Blount
Jodi Blount has an amazing heart both for music and for children. She has been the church’s pianist and choir director since 2000, and she was the founding director of A Child’s Haven, the church’s Mother’s Day Out program. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin. After serving as director of A Child’s Haven for seven years, Jodi now teaches piano and music at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School in Austin.
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