Rev. Jeffrey T. Fartro  was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and grew up in Houston, Pennsylvania, a small town 20 miles south of Pittsburgh. During high school and for several years beyond, he worked in the computer software industry, employed by a company now known as Ansys, Inc. The company produces an industry-leading software package used for mechanical and civil engineering applications. After many years of secular employment, he sensed the call to ministry, returned to school, and graduated from Calvin College in 1996 with a B.A. in Philosophy and Classical Languages, and, in 2001, he received a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) from Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Greenville, South Carolina. While in seminary, he met his wife Lynn, a native of Concord, California and a graduate of Bob Jones University (B.A., Elementary Education and Art; M.A., Biblical Counseling). Jeff and Lynn were married in 1998.

Pastor Fartro comes from a checkered spiritual background. Raised in a home with a Methodist mother and a Roman Catholic father, he became a Christian while in high school through the influence of the parachurch organization Youth for Christ/Campus Life. Shortly after his conversion to Christ, he was briefly involved with a Pentecostal church. When, in his mid-twenties, he read for the first time the Westminster Confession of Faith, he became convinced that the Reformed faith was the purest expression of biblical Christianity. He then joined the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC), the church where he had membership from 1991 to 2007.

His first pastoral call was to Cherry Hill OPC in Cherry Hill, New Jersey (2002-2005). In that call, Rev. Fartro strove to make the Reformed faith understandable by developing an extensive Inquirers’ Class, a class he still teaches regularly. He also preaches almost exclusively expositional sermons through books of the Bible using the original languages, and he visits church members in their homes regularly.

From 2006 to mid-2007, Rev. Fartro served as the interim minister for Christ Presbyterian Church in Elkton, Maryland. During that time, Rev. Fartro assisted the congregation in finding and in joining a denomination. He was then called in July 2007 to be the second Senior Pastor of PVPCA (formerly Westminster Presbyterian.)

Pastor Fartro enjoys biking on the many miles of trails in the Cleveland community, playing board games such as Risk on the monthly Westminster PCA game-night, and visiting his parents (in the same house he grew-up) in Houston, Pennsylvania as well as seeing his in-laws in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Rev. Fartro and his wife Lynn have two young sons--Leeland (3) and James (2). Their third child--Sarabeth--was born in September of 2008.