Leadership

Martin Tobias, our music director since 1999, has a lifelong involvement in music.
Having majored in bassoon at Western Washington University, he later took up singing
and became a school music teacher and a regular chorister in the Portland Opera, a
position which he still holds.

In 1986 Martin left the public school system to pursue a graduate degree in music.
He earned a doctorate in voice at University of Oregon in 1998.

Martin has sung solo and chorus with numerous choirs and opera companies up and down
the West Coast, including Portland Opera, Seattle Opera, Eugene Opera, Stanford
Savoyards, and the Oregon Bach Festival, as well as the Gächinger Kantorei in Stuttgart,
Germany. He enjoys working at PCL with the friendly and supportive people there.

E-Mail Martin

Beth Keys is the Director of Youth and Children’s Ministries. A graduate of Lewis and Clark College, Beth worked as a social caseworker for the State of Oregon for six years but has spent the over twenty-five years working in Christian Education. Her responsibilities include providing Sunday School programs for Children and Youth 0 -18 years, intergenerational events, and the Youth Ministry program which includes an annual Summer Mission Trip.

Beth has taken numerous continuing education courses on both the local and national level covering topics such as multiple intelligences, theory and practice of education, Bible study, faith development, children & worship, Presbyterian polity, Presbyterian program & mission, youth ministry, and education in small churches.

Beth has served the Presbytery of the Cascades, our regional governing body, in several capacities including as a trainer and consultant in Christian Education and curriculum, as a Cascades Summer Conference Planning Team member and conference dean, as a Committee on Ministry member, as a General Assembly Commissioner and as Presbytery Vice Moderator for three years. She served as the Moderator for 2001 - 2002 and as Chair of Presbytery Council in 2002 - 2003.

Beth has been married for over 30 years to Ted Keys. They have three grown children; Meagyn, an English teacher a West Linn High School Emily, a counselor at Sunset High School; and Morgan, a recent graduated of Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma.

E-Mail Beth

Greg Ikehara-Martin became our pastor in 2004. His sermons are thought-provoking and they bring the Bible to life in our current situations. Come hear for yourself! You won't be disappointed.

Greg was born December 18, 1955, and grew up as Greg Martin in Monrovia, CA (just east of Los Angeles.) A fifth-generation member of First Presbyterian, Monrovia, he was active in youth group and choir as a teenager and was elected an elder during his junior year in high school. He was also made a delegate to San Gabriel Presbytery.

After Graduating from Monrovia High School, Greg attended Pomona
College (Claremont), where he began to feel a call to ministry. Also while at Pomona, he met fellow student Laura Ikehara, who grew up in Hawaii.

Greg attended Princeton Seminary (NJ). He and Laura were married after
his first year at Princeton. While back east, Laura got her MSW (Master
of Social Work) degree from Rutgers University. Laura is a Clinical Social
Worker in private practice in Vancouver, where the Ikehara-Martins have
lived since 1992.

Greg was ordained June 5, 1983, after accepting a call to be Associate
Pastor of Calvin Presbyterian Church in Tigard. Greg was Associate at Calvin for 8 years and Interim Pastor for a ninth. He then moved to Vancouver, WA, as organizing pastor of the New Church Development which has become East Woods Presbyterian Church. Greg was with East Woods for almost 7 years.

Greg also earned a Master of Arts in Teaching from George Fox University. He has both Oregon and Washington teaching certificates.

Greg and Laura have three children: Rachel, a college student at Western Washington University in Bellingham; Andrew, a college student at Knox College in Galesburg, IL; and Timothy, a student at Columbia River HS. Andrew and Timothy both play advanced-competition soccer year-round.

Besides watching soccer, Greg enjoys hiking, running, bird watching, stargazing, tennis, gardening (when it’s dry), reading, classical music, and all sorts of card and board games, when it’s wet or dark. Greg plays the guitar and loves to sing.

E- Mail Greg

Our office Manager, Edith Sanguinetti Alben, joined our staff in 2002. Edith was baptized at First Presbyterian Church in Bakersfield, CA at the age of six months. At twelve years of age she joined the same congregation by affirmation of faith. As an 18 year old Edith answered her pastor's call for junior high youth workers and began her lay ministry.

After graduating from California State College, Bakersfield with a B.A. in Fine Arts, Edith worked in a variety of businesses including a print shop, photographer's studio, retail clothing, management consulting, law office, real estate and a public relations and advertising firm.

In addition to running the church office and scheduling building use Edith enjoys applying her artistic skills the church's liturgical art, and now the church’s website.

E-Mail Edith