Pastor Led Council of Churches
Monday, May 7, 2007
Jeffrey R. Newhall, 60, a native Washingtonian who became executive director of the International Council of Community
Churches, a Protestant denomination, died May 4 at his home in Worcester, Mass. He had brain cancer.
The ICCC was formed in 1950 as a union of black and white community churches. The merger put racial conciliation at the
forefront of its agenda. He led the Frankfort, Ill.-based church from 1991 to 1998.
Jeffrey Robert Newhall was a 1964 graduate of Western High School and a 1969 political science graduate of George
Washington University.
At Hartford Seminary Foundation in Connecticut, he received a master's degree in religion and a master's of divinity degree.
From Andover Newton Theological School in Newton Centre, Mass., he received a doctorate with a specialty in pastoral
counseling.
He was ordained in 1972 at Washington's Palisades Community Church and returned there as pastor from the late 1970s to
early 1980s.
Over the years, he also served churches in New England and was chaplain at the Gow School, a private school in South Wales,
N.Y., for dyslexic children.
From 1998 to 2006, he was pastor of Greendale People's Church in Worcester.
He was a board member of the National Council of Churches.
Survivors include his wife of 35 years, the Rev. Sally Studenmund Newhall, a Presbyterian minister, of Worcester; and two
children, Sarah Amorin of Ayer, Mass., and Jeremiah Newhall of Worcester.