Dennis Carl Mazza

Email:  info@dcmazza.com   Phone: 443.406.1445
Web Site: www.dcmazza.com

 Skills in the field: Extensive theoretical and practical understanding of and experience with homelessness:
I have been working with and among homeless persons and families since 1962

• St. Paul’s House Mission, New York City – Staff & Board of Directors
  1962 – Present
• The Gospel League Home, Chicago, Illinois – Volunteer and resident staff
  1964 – 1972
• Meeting Ground, Cecil County, Maryland – Founder and Director
  1981 – 2011
• Leader of the movement to establish Friendship House, Wilmington, Delaware
  1985 – 1990
• National Coalition for the Homeless, Washington DC – Board of Directors
  1986 – 1996

Writing and Editorial Experience:
Founder and Editor of Loaves and Fishes – a bimonthly tabloid newspaper of Meeting Ground Community in which my column regularly appeared. National circulation of 10,000.
1981 – 2011
• Articles reprinted in numerous publications including The Other Side magazine.

Education:
M. Div., Princeton Theological Seminary – Princeton, New Jersey, 1978
B.A., Nyack College – Nyack, New York, 1975
DIPLOMA, Moody Bible Institute – Chicago, Illinois, 1967

Ministry Professional:
Ordained Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (U.S. A.)
June 4, 1978

• Pastor, Christ Presbyterian Church – Springfield Massachusetts
  1978 – 1981
• Interim Pastor, Calvary Presbyterian Church – Wilmington, Delaware
  1981 – 1982
• Pastor, First Presbyterian Church – Chesapeake City, Maryland
  1984 – 1989
• Elected by New Castle Presbytery in 2008 as a candidate for Moderator of the 218^th General Assembly of the PC USA