In his early teenage years the family moved to a larger farm where they again were active in the local Congregational church.  It was in these years that Rev. Osgood first sensed the Lord’s moving in his life.  As he attempted to understand this movement of the Lord, he left the family church and began attending the local United Methodist Church.  It was then that he came to the realization that while he had always sensed God’s presence in my life, he had not really known the Lord in a personal way.  The following summer while attending a United Methodist youth camp and at the age of sixteen he made a profession of personal faith in Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. 

His college years were spent at Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, Vermont, where he majored in history and secondary education.  The late sixties and early seventies were a tumultuous time both on the national political scene and in his relationship with the Lord.  During that time he journeyed into a far land and away from his previously close relationship with the Lord.

 In 1973 Rev. Osgood married Kathleen Allen (Kathy) and began teaching history and social studies on the high school level.  He and Kathy had a son (Ryan Allen) born in 1974 and a daughter (Megan Elizabeth) in 1975.  That same year he left teaching and the next few years are what he often terms his "wandering years."   With a wife and two young children to support, he worked at various jobs, including carpentry, car sales and real estate.  As their children began to grow, the young family returned to the local Congregational church in which Rev. Osgood had been raised.  It was at this time that he began to wrestle with the sense of being called to the ordained ministry.

 In an effort to work through God’s call to the ordained ministry, the family bought and operated a dairy farm for the next five years.  Through a growing relationship with the Lord and the local church, Rev. Osgood was led to a place where clearly the only thing he could do was to become an ordained minister.  They sold the diary farm, and he enrolled in Bangor Theological Seminary in Bangor, Maine.  In 1987 he graduated from BTS and accepted the pastoral call to the then Union Congregational Church of Greenfield, New Hampshire, now Greenfield Congregational Covenant Church.  That was nearly fifteen years ago, and Rev. Osgood says that he is surer of his call to the ordained ministry today than when he first came as pastor to this congregation.

 Rev. Osgood has received his Doctor of Ministry degree in worship studies at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary.