Executive Leadership Team
Central District
Clergy
Marty Pennington
Marty is the lead pastor of Mainstreet Church in Walbridge, Ohio. An ordained elder since 2001, he served the church as its first Worship Pastor for ten years before assuming the Lead Pastor role in 2005. He has led the church through the building of a new facility in 2007 and the transition to its current multi-campus ministry. The church continues to grow as it reaches the Greater Toledo area for Christ. Marty served as a member of the denomination’s Pastoral Ministry Leadership Team from 2005-2007 and has been a member of the Executive Leadership Team the past two years. He and his wife, Amy, have been married for over 18 years and have four children, ages 10-15.
Joe Leighton
Joe earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Ohio Christian University and earned a Master of Arts degree from Trinity Seminary in Newberg, Ind. Joe began his pastoral ministry in 1979, became a member of the former Central Conference in 1986, and transferred his ordination in 1989. Within our denomination, Joe served 3.5 years as Associate Pastor at First Love (Reynoldsburg, Ohio), 6.5 years as senior pastor at Shepherd of the Valley (Logan, Ohio), 8 years as Youth Pastor at Lancaster UB (Lancaster, Ohio). He is now in his seventh year as senior pastor at Salem Chapel (two of those years as a yoked parish with Lancaster). He has served on Central Conference’s Council of Administration, as a member of the conference Church Planting Commission, as chairperson of the Ministerial Education Commission, and as a member of the Scioto Youth Camp Board. Bi-vocational in his ministry, Joe is also a Financial Advisor. He lives in Lancaster with his wife, Tracey, and their boys, Corbin and Colton.
Lay
Tim Krugh
Tim is an attorney, husband, father, and grandfather who has been an active United Brethren most of his life. He is a member of Mainstreet Church in Walbridge, Ohio, and a member of the Executive Leadership Team 2007-2009. Tim states, “It has been a privilege to serve the UBC the past two years by assisting our bishop and staff in their efforts to strengthen and restore our group as we move forward with a renewed focus on worship and reaching out to the unchurched in a secular world. This is an increasingly difficult challenge in our anti-Christian, non-denominational culture, but one that we must boldly accept if our biblical world-view and message of hope and redemption through Christ is to resound throughout the realm of our influence.” Tim adds, “I enjoy working on policy and focusing on the big picture and leadership, and would do my best to continue to fulfill the responsibilities of the Executive Leadership Team, if reelected.”
Debbie Voight
Debbie Voight has served in children’s ministry for over 11 years, on the ELT for four years, as a Conference Secretary for four years, and as a pastor's wife for over five years. She graduated with her B.S.B.A in Finance and is also a substitute school teacher, as well as a parent volunteer at her children's school. Debbie resides in Lancaster, Ohio, with her husband, Greg Voight, senior pastor of the Lancaster UB Church, and their three children, Chris, Katie, and Simon.