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Pastor Ed Eberhart has been the Senior Minister of the First Christian Church of Barnesville since November 1998. Prior to that, he briefly served the church as Associate and Youth Minister. During his time in the pastorate, the congregation has experienced significant growth and completed a major building project with the church’s New Life Center as well as the acquisition of a church gymnasium located on Watt Avenue, known as "The ROCK." 
 
Pastor Eberhart also serves as overseer for Central Christian Church in Quaker City, maintaining a rotation of preachers that fill the pulpit each week and offers pastoral care to the congregation.  Prior to becoming the Senior Minister in Barnesville, Pastor Eberhart served briefly in small congregations of the Christian church in St. Clairsville and Morristown, Ohio.  
 
Pastor Eberhart is very active in the Barnesville community, having served as: Trustee and member of the Barnesville Community Foundation; current Treasurer and Past-President of the Barnesville Rotary Club; current Vice-President of the Barnesville Area Ministerial Association; Founding member and current Treasurer of the Community Christian Mission which oversees The Haven, Barnesville’s downtown Christian Youth Center; Member of the Barnesville Area Education Foundation; and Team Chaplain and support staff for the Barnesville High School Shamrock football team.  Since 2022, he has served as a member of the Board of Education of the Barnesville Exempted Village School District, previously serving for more than six years as a Trustee at Belmont College in St. Clairsville, Ohio. At various times he has also served on a myriad of village, school, and community committees.
 
In 2000, Pastor Eberhart was the recipient of Standard Publishing’s “Outstanding Young Minister” award and he has also been awarded the Paul Harris Fellowship through Rotary International. In addition to his ministerial duties, Mr. Eberhart also has a second career in real estate. He received his real estate license in 2005 and previously worked for Century 21 Bethel Agency, and is now a licensed salesperson with Harvey Goodman Realtor.  He is a member of the Ohio Association of Realtors and the National Association of Realtors.
 
Pastor Eberhart has been a resident of Barnesville his entire life. He is the Valedictorian of the class of 1993 of Barnesville High School. He is also a 1997 summa cum laude graduate and Valedictorian of Muskingum (College) University in New Concord, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and History with a minor in Speech Communication. Additionally, he graduated with honors in 2000 from Ashland Theological Seminary with a Master of Arts degree in Christian Ministry and has since taken extensive continuing education at the seminary with hopes of one day completing a Doctor of Ministry degree. He has also attended Hondros College in Columbus, where he received his real estate sales certification and has taken numerous continuing education courses in real estate sales.  He also previously served as an adjunct instructor at Belmont College where he taught the Real Estate Capstone course.
 
Pastor Eberhart and wife Heather, an English instructor at Barnesville High School, have been married for twenty-four years and are the parents of nineteen year old daughter Anna, who is a second-year Primary Education student at Miami University (Ohio) and seventeen year old son Ben, a senior at Barnesville High School who plans to attend The Ohio State University. The Eberharts reside on Tacoma Road just outside of Barnesville.  In his spare time, Pastor Eberhart enjoys reading, spending time at a family condo at Lake Erie, traveling with family, and attending Pittsburgh Pirate baseball games.
 
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