Bill Reinhold joined the staff of the Presbytery of Philadelphia in September, 2005 as its new Associate for Mission Partnerships and Urban Ministry. In that capacity he supervises the work of the Presbytery’s outreach ministries including the Head Start Learning Tree, John Gloucester House, and Chester Eastside Ministries. He is also active in developing new outreach ministries such as the Women’s Empowerment Initiative and the Presbytery’s response to the hurricanes along the Gulf Coast in 2005. Along with his colleague Jeanne Radak (Associate for Congregational Ministry), Bill works particularly with urban congregations seeking to redevelop their ministry within their community.  

Before coming to Philadelphia, Bill served as half-time pastor of an inner-city, African American congregation in Roanoke, Virginia and as half-time Church Development Specialist for the Presbytery of the Peaks in Virginia. There he was an active member of the Peaks Presbytery Chapter of the Black Presbyterian Caucus and helped to lead a mission trip to Jamaica with them. He is now a member of the Philadelphia chapter of the National Black Presbyterian Caucus.  

Bill was raised in the Belgian Congo (later the Democratic Republic of the Congo) by missionary parents. Following graduation from high school in Kinshasa, Congo, he earned a Bachelor of Arts from King College, Bristol, Tennessee, and a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. In 1997, Bill received the Doctor of Ministry degree from the United Theological College of the West Indies and Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia.