PERRYSBURG – Stonebridge Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC) of Perrysburg installed Rev. Daniel L.
Sonnenberg as its Senior Pastor on July 10, after a unanimous call by the congregation in April of this
year.
"This is a homecoming, returning to live in Northwest Ohio after more than 35 years in the
South," Sonnenberg said. "I spent my first 20 years in Holgate and Bowling Green, so it’s nice
to be nearer to those areas again, in addition to my parents, two siblings and other extended
family."
He was formerly the assistant Pastor of Discipleship and Music at Myrtle Grove in Wilmington, N.C. He
moved to North Carolina in the mid-1970s and completed a bachelor’s degree in Marine Biology in 1978.

He received Christ while in college at an InterVarsity retreat. Following college he and his wife, Beth,
who is from Wilmington, attended Myrtle Grove EPC, where he directed the choir.
Sensing a call to serve God in full-time music ministry at that time, he returned to the University of
North Carolina at Wilmington to complete a vocal performance degree and joined the staff of Myrtle Grove
EPC in 1982.
During the next 20 years, God blessed his music ministry to include a 50-voice choir, 20-piece orchestra,
12-member vocal ensemble, drama group, dance group, and three worship bands.
However, while serving in that capacity, he began to sense a call to the ministry of the Word and
Sacrament which led to attending Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Fla. in 2001. After
completing his master’s of divinity degree in 2004, he received a call to North Grove EPC as assistant
pastor and there was ordained as a pastor in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church.
In 2007 he was called to Myrtle Grove EPC as assistant pastor.
Sonnenberg says, "Being a pastor is both a great responsibility and a wonderful opportunity. As
Jesus demonstrated and taught, it means loving and serving the people in my congregation in sacrificial
ways at times. It is also a wonderful opportunity to meet new people and to grow together in our love
and knowledge of God, ourselves, each other, and the larger community we serve."
The Sonnenbergs have been married since 1978. They have two grown sons, Stephen and James. Aside from
ministry, he enjoys playing tennis, bicycling, woodworking, reading fiction and singing with his wife.

Stonebridge Church currently meets Sundays at 10:30 a.m. for worship at the Knights of Columbus’
Graystone Hall, 29101, Hufford Road, Perrysburg.
You can read more about him and his writings or listen to his sermons at the church’s web site
www.stonebridge-epc.org.