Pastor Rowlands is a 2004 graduate of Thiel College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and a minor in Religion. Platz, who was the first woman to be ordained as a pastor in the Lutheran Church in America in 1970.
A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pastor Rowlands former home congregation (the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Pittsburgh (Carrick), Pennsylvania, raised four pastors in the Lutheran Church including: the Reverend Elizabeth A. Theobald-Rowlands is an ordained pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
