About North Park Bible Church

Learn more about the church and what we believe.

North Park Bible Church has been serving the Allison Park community with biblical teaching and Christ-centered fellowship for over 60 years. Our church family is committed to growing in faith together while reaching out to our neighbors with God's love.

Our Beliefs

  • We believe in the one living and true God, eternally existing in perfect unity as three equally and fully divine Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Each has precisely the same nature, attributes, and being, and is equally worthy of the same glory and honor and obedience.

    References: John 17:3; Matthew 28:19-20; John 1:1-4; Acts 5:3-4

  • We believe the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments to be the full record of God’s self-disclosure to mankind. Different men moved along by the Holy Spirit to record God’s very words, inerrant in the original writings. Scripture is fully trustworthy as our final and sufficient authority for all of life.

    References: 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21

  • We believe that God created mankind—male and female—in His own image and likeness, free of sin, to glorify Himself and enjoy His fellowship. Tempted by Satan, but in the sovereign plan of God, man freely chose to disobey God, bringing sin, death and condemnation to all mankind. All of mankind is in desperate need of the Savior.

    References: Genesis 3:1-6;Romans 3:10-19; Romans 1:18, 32

  • We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, as the substitutionary atonement in our place, and that salvation is found in none other than Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ’s death on the cross was the sole and complete payment for sins, fully satisfying God’s righteous wrath, for each person that turns from sin in repentance and places their faith in Christ alone by grace alone. At salvation each person is made a new creation by the Holy Spirit, declared righteous before God, and secured as an adopted child of God forever. Genuine faith continues in obedience and love for Jesus Christ with a life eager to glorify God.

    References: Romans 8:37-39; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Corinthians 12:13

  • We believe that upon placing one’s faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior, the believer is made part of the Body of Christ, the one universal Church, of which Jesus Christ is the Head. The Scriptures command believers to gather locally in order to devote themselves to worship, prayer, teaching of the Word, fellowship, the ordinances of baptism and communion.

    References: Ephesians 1:22-23; Acts 2:42-46

  • We believe that Christian baptism is a public declaration of the believer’s salvation in Christ, identifying with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection symbolized by immersion in water. The Lord’s Supper is the united commemoration by believers of Christ’s death until He comes and should be preceded by a careful self-examination.

    References: Acts 2:41; Romans 6:3-6; 1 Corinthians 11:20-29

Church Leadership

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Keith Thomas

Pastor / Teacher / Elder

Keith Thomas serves as our Interim Pastor, bringing a deep commitment to Biblical teaching and spiritual leadership to our congregation. As the founder and Executive Director of Quest Ministries since 2012, he has dedicated his life to sharing God's Word through relational evangelism, discipleship, and apologetics in the Pittsburgh area.

Keith holds a Master's degree in Theology from Capital Bible Seminary and continues to pursue advanced theological studies at Chafer Theological Seminary. His ministry experience includes 14 years as Area Director with Search Ministries, where he focused on marketplace ministry and discipleship. He is an active member of both the Evangelical Theological Society and Evangelical Philosophical Society, reflecting his commitment to sound Biblical scholarship.

Keith and his wife Karen have been blessed with 35 years of marriage, three married sons, and seven grandchildren. When not serving the church or leading Quest Ministries, Keith enjoys coaching youth sports and spending time outdoors with his family.

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Elder Board

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Dave Klein

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    Dave grew up on the North Side of Pittsburgh. After graduating High School enlisted in the US Air Force where he served in the Reserves for 6 years. He later worked as a union sheet metal journeyman for 36 years.

    Dave has been married to his wife, Gayle, for over 50 years. They have two children and few grandchildren as well.

    Dave is an avid outdoorsman with a love of gardening, fishing, hunting, and spending quiet times in the woods. He actively serves on the Praise Team at the church and leads a Sunday morning Bible study.

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Frank Hoffman

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    Frank served for 6 years in the Navy and was deployed twice to Vietnam during that time. It was during this time that his conversion took place. After the military he worked as a millwright for 36 years.

    Frank has served as a deacon and elder for various organizations for 41 years. One of these being the Child Evangelism Fellowship of Pennsylvania where he also served as Chairman of the Allegheny Chapter also.

    Frank Hoffman and his wife, Joyce, have been married for over 50 years. They are the proud parents of 3 children and 9 grandchildren and enjoy travel together.

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Joe Mascia

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    Joe Mascia was raised in a small town in Northwestern PA now known as part of the PA WILDS.  Hunting, fishing and enjoying nature's beauty left a mark on his DNA that is still with him today.

    Following college and after completing his active-duty military obligation, he married his college sweetheart, Sue Sutter and settled in Wexford, PA.  At that time, he also started his 50-year career in industrial sales and marketing.

    Today Joe continues to enjoy his hobbies of gardening, woodworking, fishing, target shooting and his #1 pleasure of studying God's Word and serving Him thru NPBC.

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Kim Carter

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    Kim was born and raised in the little community of Camp Dennison, Cincinnati Ohio, the youngest of eight children. His only worries were schoolwork, playing, and going fishing with his older brother. As a family, they attended and were members of the First Baptist Church in Milford, Ohio.

    He studied Architectural Engineering at the University of Cincinnati and graduated with a bachelor’s degree. There, he met his future wife while on a Co-Op experience.

    While at UC, during one of my Co-Op experiences, I met the woman who became my wife and mother of our two children.

    After college he served for 22-years as an Army Reserve officer and currently serves the citizens of Pennsylvania as a civil engineer with the Department of Transportation.

    He and his wife have two kids. They have found that the key to a satisfying and joyful life is in the service to others.