Rev. Anderson-Little to Serve as Visiting Pastor

The Rev. Dan Anderson-Little, a sixth-generation pastor who currently serves at First Presbyterian Church of Garland, Texas, will visit the University of the Ozarks on the week of Sept. 8-12 as part of the University's Struthers Visiting Pastoral Study Leave Program.

Anderson-Little has served churches in Detroit, Kansas City, St. Louis, and Dallas and has led inner-city, urban, suburb, and rural congregations. His current congregation in Texas is one of the most multicultural congregations in the PC(USA): it is 55 percent Anglo, 20 percent West African, 20 percent Pakistani, and 5 percent Hispanic.

His congregation is currently working on developing a Hispanic outreach in the community which is 60 percent Spanish speaking. First Presbyterian Church worships in multiple languages and cultural styles and has a strong local and global mission focus.

Anderson-Little earned his bachelor of arts from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, his master of divinity from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, and his doctor of ministry from United Theological Seminary (United Methodist) in Dayton, Ohio.

He has studied and served the church in England, Costa Rica, Zimbabwe, Lebanon, Cuba, Colombia, and Pakistan. He has preached on five continents. He is married to Linda, a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. They have three grown children and will become grandparents in November. When he is not serving the church, Anderson-Little loves cooking, binge-watching on Netflix, crossword puzzles, and listening to music.

The Pastoral Study Leave Program was established in 2005 by the late Rev. Dr. James R. Struthers of Stillwater, Okla., a long-time member of the University's Board of Trustees. Struthers established the program to bring Presbyterian pastors to the U of O campus for personal and professional development.

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