Reverend Dave Piltz, a licensed Pastor of the United Methodist Church, commonly referred to by everyone as just Piltz has 25 years of experience of being a youth leader/director. He has 10 years of mission trip experience both domestically & internationally and has been serving as the lead Pastor to local United Methodist Churches since 2016 and was Campus Clergy/Minister at Drexel University 2015-2021. He also was the EPA Conference Youth and Young Adult Coordinator since 2014-2021. In addition Piltz has created and facilitated Adult Sunday School classes on Biblical Negotiation, taught youth Sunday school, created and facilitated training for youth leaders and Sunday school teachers, created and facilitated church staff training on personality styles, conflict management, emotional intelligence, interactive bible studies and strategic planning and has provided coaching to lead pastors on organizational development issues. Piltz is often a presenter at Tools for Ministry and Laity Academy.

In his non-church work, he is a specialist in instructional design, organization design and in developing interactive learning tools, simulations, training games, and unique facilitation tools and methods. Currently, he is a Marriage and Family therapist and owns M.E. Matters, LLC.

Piltz holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering, a Master’s Degree in Marriage & Family Therapy and an advanced certificate in family therapy. He has completed the Eastern PA United Methodist Church Licensing School. In addition, Dave holds certification in game design, is a master practitioner of the MBTI®, and trained in Neurofeedback. He has authored numerous articles on learning, training, game design and co-authored A Guide to Success for Technical Managers: Supervising in Research, Development, and Engineering published by John Wiley. Piltz will be entering his fourth year of seminary in August 2023.