is a native of Lancaster County.  He returned to Lancaster in August 1998 to be Lancaster General’s Supervisor of CPE.  Keith’s educational training includes a B.A. from Messiah College and a Master of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.  He pastored churches in Illinois and Allentown and is ordained by the Mennonite Church USA. 

Keith’s CPE training started at St. Luke’s Hospital in Bethlehem, Pa. He then engaged in supervisory training at Asbury Methodist Village, a continuing care retirement community in Gaithersburg, Md. He completed his supervisory training through York Health Systems. He has supervised students since 1997 and is certified by ACPE as a CPE Supervisor.

Keith’s supervisory style invites self-exploration, skill development and relational growth. He supports and challenges the students throughout their self-directed learning process. Keith continues to hone his pastoral care skills through covering some on-call and visiting patients. He is frequently accessible to students in addition to normal meeting times.

Elizabeth Watson-Martin is an ordained Baptist and United Methodist minister Prior to Lancaster, she had nine years of chaplaincy experience in acute-care hospital and hospice settings and three years of parish-ministry experience. Most recently Elizabeth served on the CPE faculty at Harris Methodist Health System in Fort Worth. She is a certified counselor with Resolve through Sharing, a grief support program for parents who have lost children through miscarriage, stillbirth, or neonatal death. Elizabeth holds the M.Div. degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and completed Methodist study courses at Brite Divinity School.

Elizabeth completed CPE supervisory training at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. She was certified Associate CPE Supervisor in 1997 and received final certification in 2000. She utilizes family-systems theory in her work with CPE participants and group process. She aspires to create a hospitable learning environment in which students learn to more fully grace themselves so they can more wholly minister to hurting people whose hospitalizations often expose the limits of the human condition.

If you are interested in discussing how CPE might fit into your plans, please call Keith or Elizabeth at (717) 544-5979 or send an email to keespens@LancasterGeneral.org or ewatson3@LancasterGeneral.org.