True Passions

Leading Worship at St. Mark's Church, Frankford

Philadelphia Eagles Football: they are up and down and up and down!

Philadelphia Phillies Baseball: playing for second place is not good enough!

Gardening: I love it, but it is too much work.

My dog: Kobe, the wonder dog.

Being a parent, husband, and grandfather! It doesn’t get any better than that.

Working in my Our Church' s Soup Kitchen

Biography

The Reverend Jonathan N. Clodfelter is a city priest leading a parish church for the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania in a significantly challenging Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood.

He is married and has four children and one grandchild.

Born and raised in the Ozark Mountains, Jon, as her prefers to be called, grew up on a small rocky piece of land learning vegetable and orchard farming the hard way.

Jon was a Cub Scout, Boy Scout, and Explorer Scout and believes to this day that the skills and values that he learned as a scout still drive him today.

Jon enlisted in the US Army as a mature 21 year old seeking new opportunities.  He served a career as an intelligence analyst fighting the Cold War from special compartmented intelligence facilities in Europe and Southwest Asia.  Some highlights include:

Wearing the Green Beret of the US Army Special Forces

Expert marksman was attached to the German Army as a sniper instructor.

Preparing nuclear targeting profiles for Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Siberia.

Decorated for competence, service, and heroism by US Defense Department, the US Army, and NATO commanders.

Conversational in German and Italian. 

After graduating from the Army, Jon received a call from God to enter the ordained ministry.

Jon is currently working to expand his current ministry to include a Soup Kitchen to offer a hot meal to the local community.

Education

Jon Matriculated at these Institutions

Meramec Community College
Selected coursework

Southeast Missouri State University
Selected coursework

University of Maryland
Selected coursework

National Defense University
Selected coursework

George Washington University
Selected coursework

George Mason University

University of the State of New
York, Albany

Virginia Theological Seminary
Master of Divinity

Villanova University
School of Business

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Let us now sing the praises of famous men, our ancestors in their generations.
The Lord apportioned to them great glory.

Wisdom of Jesus
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