His first charge was minister of the Penningtonville Presbyterian Church in Atglen, Pennsylvania.
In the late ‘70s he served as pastor at Faith Presbyterian Church in West Lafayette Indiana where he also led students at Purdue University in bible study.
In 1977 he led a mission to the Yucatán peninsula to build a small chapel.
He was appointed a member of the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, NJ in 1985.
[4] His 2013 book Holy Communion in the Piety of the Reformed Church was called the crowning achievement of his career, and a valuable overview of the "Reformed tradition of Eucharistic piety and reflection".