Places Chuck Taber Lived

	Places Where Chuck Lived
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2019 - present	DeFuniak Springs, FL is where Chuck is currently serving as pastor. When moving here, a Veterans' Administration center had begun to be built, but it was stopped. That meant the expected growth for the city was greatly curtailed. That and COVID-19 stretched the church finances to a greater extend; so the church cannot continue to run a deficit budget and pay a full-time pastor. While here, Chuck created a Christian spirituality class called "Connections." He created a participants guide which had five spiritual exercises to be done during the week, and then during class, participants discussed their experiences and questions, and participated in an opening exercise, a lecture, and a closing group exercise. Chuck also expanded his Advent series on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol to include a daily devotional.
2016 - 2018	Pocomoke City, MD is where Chuck started as an interim and then became a pastor to the Beaver Dam and Pitts Creek Presbyterian Churches, a country and a town church with a long history that goes back to 1683 with the founding ministries of Francis Makemie. When the larger church, Beaver Dam, decided to leave the denomination, the COM said they could not begin the withdrawal process while they had a PCUSA pastor; so Beaver Dam dissolved the relationship and Pitts Creek could not afford to pay a minister's salary. While at Pocomoke City, Chuck helped reorganize Pitts Creek from having three church boards to becoming unicameral. He also led two Advent specials: one year around Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and the next year around Chronicles of Narnia. Both were well received and appreciated.
2011 - 2015 Return to map	Curwensville, PA is where Chuck worked as a solo pastor with a part-time secretary and music director, and volunteer youth director. When an elder was unsuccessful at leading the congregation out of the PCUSA to join the PCA, he and his extended family left, so the congregation could no longer afford to pay a full-time pastor. The Church hosted Presbytery, restarted Presbyterian Women, held a community Christmas cantata, and returned to a Presbyterian form of worship with lay worship leadership and the sermon in the center of the service, not the end. Chuck served on the Discipleship Umbrella Team; preached at Presbytery; taught a Commissioned Lay Pastor class on "The Reformed Faith," which was well received. Chuck also learned MuseScore in order write harmonies, transitions, and re-arrange scores so that the pianist could play more songs. With the church's worship committee's help, a book of old and modern music was created to supplement the blue Presbyterian hymnal. Chuck also taught three adult Bible study groups: Sunday school, Sunday evening, and Tuesday morning men's group. Here Chuck also joined the Rotary Club, and both Veronica and Chuck sang in the Town Choir.
2004 - 2011 Return to map	Chickamauga, GA is where Chuck served as an unintentional pastor of Chickamauga Presbyterian Church. The congregation was split between "movers" who wanted to build on recently purchased land near the highway, and "non-movers." The "movers" had called Chuck to be pastor, but presbytery insisted nothing was to be done about moving, or even discussed, until after Chuck had been there for a year. This resulted in the "movers" thinking the church would never move, but allowed the "non-movers" to accept and support Chuck. The movers, though, had the pastoral relationship dissolved. They called an evangelist, who split the congregation and formed an EPC mission's group from the "movers." About ten years later, the new church building was finally built next to the highway as an EPC congregation. After the relationship dissolved, Chuck served as pulpit supply for Cherokee and East Tennessee Presbyteries, worked for the US Postal Coding Center, worked various temporary office jobs, and as an accounts payable clerk for Jake Marshall Services Inc in Chattanooga,
2000 - 2004 Return to map	Safety Harbor was where Chuck served as an unintentional pastor/head of staff of First Presbyterian Church. The congregation had called Chuck to get the congregation to become missional and become known and recognized in the community. Previously, they were known as the "do nothing church." Chuck, therefore, pushed for change quickly to reach out to the community, and go from being self-serving and insular to reaching out and being concerned for those who were not yet members. This alienated the richest members of the church who threaten that if Chuck did not leave, they and their money would. So he wasgiven a generous exit package to leave. Afterwards, Chuck began working with Natural Church Development, served as an Interim Minister of English Ministries at the Korean Presbyterian Church, and worked as a Set-Up Coordinator for Home Mortgages for Washington Mutual Loan Fulfillment Center in Clearwater.
1985 - 1995 Adrian 9/13/88 1997 - 2000 Return to map	The suburbs of Atlanta, GA is where Veronica and Chuck spent most of their lives together as a married couple. They first moved to Atlanta as part of an implementation group for the Georgia's Medicare program through E.D.S. During this time, Chuck first worked for Kelly Services and then for Scientific-Atlanta, where he received the nick name, "Chuckles" from the engineers with whom he worked who noticed he was normally smiling. Chuck helped start a new Evangelical Presbyterian Church, but later joined Norcross Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), and came under care of Atlanta Presbytery. Adrian was born here. They left the Atlanta area for Chuck to work in his first pastorate, but they had to move back when when Veronica lost her job in New Orleans. About four months of returning back, Chuck suffered from two bleeding ulcers, caused by previous pain medication he had taken for a debilitating back pain. A few months after recovering from stomach ulcers, he was hospitalized and forced to stay home for a month with a major internal infection that almost killed him. Three days before major surgery to take out half of his stomach, resection his biliary tract, and take out his gall bladder, Chuck was miraculously cured. Shortly thereafter he accepted his second pastorate in Safety Harbor.
1995-1997 Return to map	Thibodeaux, LA is in the midst of Cajun country, and is where Chuck was the pastor of Raceland Presbyterian Church, and where he spent a year and a half with major chronic pain caused by two dysfunctional thoracic facet joints that were pinching a nerve, causing him to feel like some one was repeatedly stabbing him in the back. It was so bad that he contemplated suicide, but was eventually referred to the best thoracic doctor in the United States, and received prolo-therapy which cured the problem. When Veronica lost her job in New Orleans, the family could no longer afford to stay in Thibodeaux, and EDS paid for their move back to Atlanta.
1984 - 1985 Return to map	The Colony, TX is where Chuck, Veronica and Meagan lived for nine months while Veronica worked at Plano for EDS for the Georgia account. While Veronica worked 10 to 14 hours a day for six days a week, Chuck worked as an EDS temporary, and became involved with Trinity Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), singing in their choir and teaching adult Sunday School.
1976-1978 1981- 1984 Meagan 12/9/83 M.Div 1984 Return to map	Jackson, MS is where Veronica and Chuck met at college. When Chuck returned to Jackson to attend Reformed Seminary, Chuck and Veronica first attended a PCA church, but ended up as members of Briarwood Presbyterian Church (PCUSA). Meagan was born; Veronica began working for EDS as a mainframe computer programmer, and Chuck earned a Masters of Divinity, but came to realize he no longer fitted in with the PCA so transferred to the EPC.
1978 - 1981 M.A. 1980 Return to map	Pasadena is where Chuck attended Fuller Theological Seminary, and where Veronica joined him after their marriage on December 23, 1978. Both Veronica and Chuck were members of one of the Faith Renewal Teams organized by the seminary. As part of the team, we experienced spiritual growth through interacting in a committed and intentional small group and then taught a three-day program introducing the small group concept to churches. Also during this time, Veronica worked in Los Angeles as a clerk for an insurance company, and then went to Computer Learning School and became certified in programming. They were members of Knox United Presbyterian Church in Pasadena, and sang in the choir. After earning a Masters of Theology and saving up enough money, they left Fuller to further Chuck's education at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, MS.
1956 - 1964 High School 1971- 1974 A.A. Marketing 1976 Return to map	Columbia, SC was where Chuck was born and spent most of his childhood. His father was stationed there (he retired E-9, as a Command Sergeant Major). He went to Kindergarten, some Elementary and Junior High, and all of Senior High School in Columbia. He earned an Associates of Arts Degree in Marketing at Midlands Technical College, becoming the first male to graduate with a 4.0 average. Columbia was the place where he became active in Church, became a camp counselor, then a camp speaker, served on the paid youth staff for a summer, helped and then ran the Charlie Brown Club for first through fifth graders during two consecutive summers, and felt a definite call to full-time ordained ministry. His peers, pastors, teachers and youth directors told him he had gifts for ministry.
1970 Return to map	Claxton, GA is the location of Chuck's mother's family farm. He lived there during the two times his father served in Korea, when he was a baby and later for a half of year during eighth grade.
1967 - 1969	Ft. Ord, CA is where Chuck spent his fifth through seventh grades, while his father trained troops to go to Vietnam. He tried selling greeting cards and TV Guides for a little while, and also learned how to play the accordion.
1964 - 1966 Return to map	Ft. Davis, Panama Canal Zone is where Chuck spent his third and fourth grades. He and his brother loved trampling through the jungle, making their own trails, discovering old ruins, and capturing insects and animals. Here he fell in love for the first time, and remembers enjoying Moody science films on Sunday night at church.
1964 Return to map	Walter Reed Hospital was where Chuck's right foot was amputated, when he was eight years old. Chuck was born six weeks prematurely, with a birth defect caused by thalidomide. His right foot had three toes, and his right leg was shorter than the other and was growing at a different rate. He had to wear built up shoes and a braces to walk, so the Army doctors decided to amputate and fit him with a prosthesis. Besides some embarrassment, not being able to get up on water skis, and an inability to skate backwards, the artificial foot has not caused him any problems. Although he now walks with a limp, earlier in his life, unless he was wearing short pants, people could not tell he had an artificial foot.
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