Our Team

Robert Grow

Pastor

Robert (Rob) Grow is a native of Akron, Ohio. He graduated from Muskingum College, now Muskingum University with a Bachelors of Arts majoring in political science and with a minor in speech communications in 1990. He then graduated from the Methodist Theological School in Ohio with a Masters of Divinity in 1993. Rob also graduated from Drew University School of Theology with a Masters of Sacred Theology were he concentrated in social ethics. He completed two internship unites of Clinical Pastoral Education (chaplain training) at Cleveland Clinic, and a residency in C.P.E. at Saint Vincent’s Mercy Medical Center in Toledo, Ohio in 2006. Rob is a former United Methodist pastor who was brought up in that denomination and also spent about five years as a very active Quaker when he lived in New Jersey. He is now an ordained pastor in the UCC since August of 2024 and is in his eighteenth year of work as a hospice chaplain. He has been the pastor at Grace at Loyal Oak since June of 2024 and currently lives in Copley.

Patti Grabenhorst

Secretary/Facility Use Manager

Patti is a lifelong member of Grace UCC, a choir member, and at the age of 18 became one of the youngest deacons to be installed. She preached her first sermon at 18, taught Sunday school, and became an Elder at 33. She worked 30 years for Norton Schools. At Grace, Patti is the Building Usage Rep and Office Secretary, and takes care of the needs of the Sanctuary for the different seasons.

Ann Hudson

Music Director