Dr. John V. Megyesi has served as the Senior Pastor & Lead Follower of the Lowell (MA) First Church of the Nazarene since 2007. John has been active in the New England District Church of the Nazarene (a larger collection of Nazarene churches) as a member of the District Advisory Board and the Chair of the District’s Board of Ministry, their credentials body. Beginning his first pastoral assignment in 1993 in Owego, NY (later serving in spiritual development at Mount Vernon Nazarene University; then pastoring in Shawnee, KS; and before coming to Lowell, pastoring in Akron, OH), John has counted it a privilege to see, hear & encourage the mission of Christ among the church. Believing this to be true inside the Church Community as well as the church’s local community. Dr. Megyesi has also served as an Interfaith Chaplain at St. Joseph Hospital (Nashua, NH), on the board of the Greater Boston Nazarene Compassion Center (Mattapan, MA), on the Institutional (Ethics) Review Board of the St. Joseph Hospital (Nashua, NH), and on the board of the Lowell, MA “Ministry-At-Large” charitable foundation. Pastor John and his wife, Melanie have three young adult sons, Brendan (one of the other pastors on his team!), Liam and Riley...and oh yeah, we can't forget their other son, or rather their beagle/coonhound, Henley!