Background
Knecht, Glen Charles was born on March 19, 1930 in Ogdensburg, New York, United States. Son of Robert B. and Wilma P. Rosenbaum Knecht.
Knecht, Glen Charles was born on March 19, 1930 in Ogdensburg, New York, United States. Son of Robert B. and Wilma P. Rosenbaum Knecht.
Bachelor, Maryville College, Maryville, Tennessee, 1950. Bachelor's Degree, Master of Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey, 1963. Doctor of Divinity (honorary), Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, 1986.
Pastor Union Presbyterian Church, Kirkwood, Pennsylvania, 1954—1957, Oxford Presbyterian Church, Oxford, 1963—1971. Missionary evangelist Presbyterian Church Mission Agency, Tabriz, Iran, 1957—1962. Senior pastor Wallace Memorial Presbyterian Church, Hyattsville, Maryland, 1971—1983, Senior Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church (ARP Synod) of Columbia, South Carolina, United States, 1983—1997. Associate pastor 4th Presbyterian Church, Bethesda, Maryland, 1997—2007. Pastor Christ Reformed Evangelical Church, Annapolis, since 2007.
Co-founder Citizens Advocating Decency, Righteousness and Ethics, Columbia, 1990—1997.
Married Betty Jane Greenwald, August 21, 1951. Children: Thomas Robert, Elizabeth Anne Myers, Wendy Jane Higgins, Janet Lynn Dick, Glen Charles Junior, Amy Carol Frierson.