Albert G. Butzer III

Reverend “Al” Butzer grew up in a Presbyterian family in Buffalo, New York, where his grandfather was a minister, his father an elder in the church, and his mother the music teacher in the church’s weekday nursery school. A graduate of Tufts University near Boston, Rev. Butzer holds two degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary. Prior to his call in 2007 to First Presbyterian Church, Virginia Beach, he served churches in Short Hills, New Jersey, Oak Park, Illinois and Fairfax, Virginia. In addition to work in the local congregation, Rev. Butzer has been active in presbytery throughout his ministry and was elected the 1992 Moderator of Chicago Presbytery. He has served three times as a commissioner to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. He is the author of a book of sermons entitled, Tears of Sadness; Tears of Gladness. He is an avid photographer with an enthusiastic interest in seascape and landscape images.