Pastor
Dale Peterson
Peterson Preaching at West End Baptist Rev. Dale Peterson began serving as West End’s interim pastor in January, 2019, after leading two Sunday services in December, 2018. Peterson, a Norfolk native, retired from Yale Divinity School in 2015 to care for his late mother, Mary Margaret Peterson, who was 92 at the time, in Chesapeake, Peterson had been the dean of students there for 15 years after serving 12 years as a Yale chaplain. His mother died in February 2016…
Organist & Choirmaster
Dean Kershaw
Dean joined West End in May of 1986. A native of Colona, Illinois, he holds a BA from California Baptist University and an M.R.E. from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.