Chad Weinberg comes to All Saints’ Church from a 25-year career with the federal government working on development assistance and humanitarian aid, mostly in Africa.

A native of the small, rural town of Vicksburg, MI, just outside of Kalamazoo, Chad grew up in the 1970s and 1980s on a family farm growing corn, soybeans, and wheat, and also raising cattle and hogs. He attended college at Michigan State University, where he majored in urban and regional planning, and played the trumpet in the Spartan Marching Band. Later, he attended graduate school at the University of Michigan, focusing on public policy analysis and international economics.

Chad joined the Peace Corps in the mid 1990s and spent two years living and working in the small, African country of Cape Verde, where he learned to speak Portuguese.

Chad and his wife, Therra, along with their three kids – Ryna (27), Corban (18), and Phoebe (12) – live in the Franconia area of Fairfax County, near Springfield Town Center. Therra is an instructor and administrative assistant at a dance school.

He enjoys religion, philosophy, history, politics, home DIY projects, gardening, and auto maintenance, in addition to long naps on the weekend and quiet walks with the family dog Milo (a Shichon “Teddy Bear”).

Chad was raised in a small RCA congregation (Reformed Church of America) and asked Jesus to be the lord of his life in his mid-twenties. He strives to be a good husband, father, and neighbor, and a devoted disciple of Christ. His family’s home church is Immanuel Bible Church in Springfield.