- By Mary M. Grainger
- Around Town


David Kaden
Kaden has been serving the First Congregational Church as Associate Pastor since September of 2005. David grew up in the northeast, the son of a pastor in the Reformed Church in America. He attended Messiah College in Pennsylvania where he studied business and urban economic development.
After college David and his wife Jacquie worked for a year with World Impact Inc. in Newark, New Jersey, a faith-based economic development organization.
David attended Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts where he received his Mastor of Divinity, summa cum laude, in 2003. And in June 2005 David received a Master of Theology in New Testament and Early Christianity at Harvard University.
Before coming to Ithaca, David served the Christian Union Church (UCC) in West Groton, Massachusetts as solo pastor while completing his degree at Harvard.
David and Jacquie have two children, David Joseph and Ellie Marie.
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