Pastor Wally Yarbrough was born and grew up in Charlotte, NC. He was baptized and confirmed at the Little Church on the Lane. his family joined Park Road Moravian (now Peace Moravian) where Wally and Linda were married in 1968 by the Rev. Henry May. He graduated from Garinger High School and later from the University of NC at Charlotte with a B.S. degree in chemistry. He served two years in the US Army. After returning home he and Linda moved to upstate New York where he became Manager of Product Development with Norton's abrasive division in Troy, NY. They adopted two children, Melissa, who today lives with her husband, Greg, in Reading PA, and Robert whom they lost to a brain aneurysm in 2002. Wally lost his wife Linda to cancer in 2003.

He left Norton in 1984 to earn a PhD in Solid State Science (chemistry and physics of solids) at Penn State University where he later joined the faculty. He held two faculty appointments, one with the Solid State Science Program at the Materials research Laboratory and the other with the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He taught and did research at Penn State until 1997 when he and Linda responded to God's call by moving to Bethlehem to attend Moravian Seminary where he graduated in 2000. While a student at Moravian Seminary he was called to serve the Canadensis Moravian Church in the Pocono mountains or Northeastern Pennsylvania where he was ordained. He served there for two years until moving home to NC in 2001. He served the Enterprise Moravian Church until 2004 when he was called to serve our congregation here at Friedland.

Pastor Wally's hobbies and interest include fishing (as often as possible), and the many parallels that exist between modern physics and Jesus' teaching about the nature of reality. To learn more about him, and the rest of us at Friedland, come and visit with us

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The Rev. Carol A. Foltz has been the Associate Pastor at Friedland since February 2001. She was the first woman ordained in the Southern province of the Moravian Church and has served in a variety of ministry situations for 30 years. She has served as pastor of several congregations, interim pastor and director of Youth Ministry for the Southern Province. She also served as a champlain at Baptist Hospital.

Her personal faith statement is that serving Jesus Christ has made life a wondrous adventure. She felt the call to service while in college and this led to a call to ordained ministry while she attended theological seminary. Since accpeting the call she has found God to be faithful and to always provide a place of service. As she takes seriously the call to make disciples, she realizes that understanding oneself is a very important part of serving Christ in the modern world. "I realize that there are times when I bring something to a relationship that might be difficult for others, I need to be open to looking at myself in order to how I can effect an outcome. It's like Jesus said, 'take the log out of your eye before you try to remove the spec from your neighbor's eye.' It's about being authentic and transparent in ministry"

Her deep passion is helping people develop depth in their spiritual walk and working with young people. "I am always amazed at the openness our young people have to God. They believe. I hope to be able to help them build their souls and character so that when they move away from us, they will continue to serve Christ with their lives."

Her hobby is animal training and connection. She has had two dogs serve in pet assisted activities in hospital, retirement center and camp settings. At this time, her border collie, Rainbow, is always ready to work with a group.