Our Staff / Leadership

MacHenry “Mac” G. Schafer II, was born in Washington, DC.  Soon after, his parents moved to Princeton, New Jersey, where his father worked for Princeton University. Mac’s family regularly attended Trinity Episcopal Church. Mac is adopted and his parents who raised him are now deceased, but he enjoys a longstanding relationship with his birthmother Anne, who lives with her husband in Colorado.

Mac attended Elon University in North Carolina as a Psychology major.  At Elon he won the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, a national collegiate service award for leadership on campus in service to others and the community.  Following college Mac went to work for First Presbyterian Church of North Palm Beach where he became a member and worked in full time youth ministry.  It was here that he met his wife, Katy.

Following several years in South Florida, Mac and Katy both enrolled at Princeton Theological Seminary where they earned their Masters of Divinity degrees in 1999.  While at Princeton they took an extra year to do a Field Education internship in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was during this year when Mac felt a strong call to parish ministry.  His final year at Princeton he won the Fellowship Prize in Religion and Society for his senior thesis work on the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland.

After his time at Princeton, Mac accepted a call at the Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceville as Associate Pastor. While there he became a trained spiritual director through Oasis Ministries focused on families, adult education and mission.  Following Lawrenceville, Katy and Mac moved west to Scottsdale, AZ for 6 years where Mac served as Associate Pastor and later as Interim Head of Staff at Pinnacle Presbyterian Church. While there, Mac began his Doctor of Ministry degree (Parish Focus) through Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and graduated in 2014.

Mac next answered a call at Hudson Memorial Presbyterian Church in Raleigh, North Carolina as Pastor and Head of Staff where he served for 15 years.

Mac and Katy have four adult children: Hunter, Hannah, Tory, and Skye.

In his personal time Mac enjoys long distance hiking, often walking to work.  He has walked the Camino de Santiago, Camino Portugues, the Via Francigena, St. Cuthberts Way and a section of the Appalachian Trail.  Mac serves as a coordinator of American Pilgrims on the Camino Raleigh Chapter which trains people for pilgrimage walks in Spain and other countries. Mac enjoys making color pencil and ink drawings.  He and Katy like to travel and read.  Mac also enjoys working in his yard and baking pies.

Becca is a Los Angeles native who joins the staff at DPC after a cross country trip with her husband Mike and two children Maisie & Royce (and three dogs.) She received a double major in History and Classics and a minor in Latin from California State University, Long Beach. From there, she continued to receive her Masters of Divinity degree from Fuller Theological Seminary. After seminary she worked as an Associate Pastor, in the areas of Spiritual Formation of adults, youth, children and families at Calvary Presbyterian Church in South Pasadena and then San Marino Community Church.

Beyond her ministry with a church, Becca has recently used her gifts as Moderator of her previous Presbytery, taken opportunities for continuing education through a pastoral leadership program through Pepperdine University, and developed a network of Southern California Presbyterian youth ministry.

Her husband’s Philadelphia-based family has had several years to outfit her in all the Philly team gear for game days from the Eagles to the Phillies. But to be honest, her favorite part of watching a Phillies game is seeing her kids giggle their heads off when the Fanatic does silly dances!