About our leader

TOP 10 LIST FOR PASTOR CHUCK:

 1. CHUCK IS A NATIVE OF PHILADELPHIA raised in the hardscrabble suburb of Delaware County.  His mother was a beautician and father a truck driver and part time boxing manager. 

2. Originally, he set his sights on being a teacher MAJORING IN HISTORY AT WHAT IS NOW KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY. By his junior year God had other plans for his life, and he enrolled in seminary  after graduation.

3. On September 6, 1971 HE MET HIS FUTURE WIFE KATHI and on May 26, 1973 they were married;  thus a Golden Anniversary soon to come! 

4. The Wiggins’ are blessed with four children, Kristen, Matt, Micah and Justin all of whom  live nearby. 

5. KATHI IS ALSO A PRESBYTERIAN (USA) PASTOR, now retired, but serving full time to their eleven grandchildren. (Chuck helps, too!) 

6. CHUCK SERVED AT TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN VENICE FOR 24 YEARS, retiring in 2019, that  congregation having only two pastors their 50 year history!

7. CHUCK “FAILED” AT RETIREMENT going on to serve as a transitional pastor to the First Presbyterian Church in Port Charlotte. Originally up for a one year hitch, it turned into a three  year love affair ending in January, 2023. 

8. In his spare time, he is a VORACIOUS READER OF AMERICAN HISTORY, A PASSIONATE PHILADELPHIA EAGLES FAN, a loud voice rooting for his eight-year-old granddaughter Amelia’s basketball  team at the “Y” and spoiling their two year old chocolate labradoodle “Pookie.” 

9. HOLDING GREADUATE DEGREES FROM PRINCETON Theological Seminary and a doctorate from  Drew University, in fact he loves simply being called “Pastor Chuck.” 

10. If you ask him—apart from family—Pastor Chuck’s “first love” is the JOY OF PREACHING AND TEACHING THE BIBLE.