Rev. Malcolm H. McDowell

The Cathedral Church of St. Stephen, Harrisburg, PA
Washington and Jefferson College, B.A., Psychology
St. Joseph College, M.A., Counseling
General Theological Seminary, Master of Divinity and an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters

While serving the church in Central PA, Rev. McDowell was active in Diocesan, Ecumenical, and Community activities, serving as the Chairperson of the Department of Christian and Social Ministry, a member of the Ecumenical Affairs and Finance Commmittees, service on the Diocesan Response Team for Sexual Misconduct cases in the Diocese, and as Diocesan Representative on the Public Advocacy Action Committee of the PA Conferences of Churches.

Before arriving in Harrisburg in 1993, Rev. McDowell served a number of urban parishes in Connecticut for 30 years. While there, he founded "The Net," which was the first host-home program ot ifs kind, housing runaway and throwaway youth in volunteer parish homes. The program started with 50 parish families in the program and quickly grew to a network of over 800 homes throughout Connecticut. He also started soup kitchens and emergency shelters in the cities he served.

In both the Dioceses of Connecticut and Central PA, he served as an elected clergy delegate six times to his denomination's General Convention and served on its Social and Urban Committee each term.

Now retired to Cape Cod with his wife Kathie, he is enjoying an active life there. He volunteers with the NOAH Homeless Shelter in Hyannis, as a Police Chaplain with the Harwich Police Department, helped to organize Harwich as a "No Place for Hate" community, and volunteers at the Family Pantry and drives the bus for the local seniors. After umpiring high school baseball for 35 years, he has found a niche umpiring in the Cape Cod Old-timers Softball League.