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Search Committee
Dan Boge has been attending Community Church since 1994.
Dan has been involved in small groups and has been a small group
leader. He served as a trustee for seven years and has been an
elder for the past four years. Dan is a CPA and is involved in a
variety of business ventures. Dan and his wife, Gail, live in
Mt. Pleasant and have three children: Ryan (26), Steve (24), and
Nicole (18).
Tim Hall and his family came to Community Church the
first Sunday after moving to Mt. Pleasant in 1993 and stayed.
Tim and his wife, Sheree, have served as small group leaders
since 1994 and Tim was first ordained an elder in 1997. He
returned to Session in 2008 and is now chairing the Search
Committee. Tim is chair of the History department at Central
Michigan University. He and Sheree have two children: Alethea
(21) and Ian (15).
Phil Hepworth and his wife, Bethany, have been
attending Community Church for almost seven years. Phil serves
on the Deacon board, as well as volunteering with his wife in
different ministries as they are able. Phil and Bethany are
excited to welcome their first child in July, 2009. Phil does
maintenance/repair work for a local student rental company and
is also a part-time firefighter and EMT.
Tom Idema and his wife, Judy, have been attending Community
Church since January, 2002. After attending just one service, they
both agreed Community Church felt like home. At Community Church
Tom has served on the parking ministry (a.k.a. Coneheads),
volunteered at Vacation Bible School, attends Family Faith Nights,
and has been a small group leader for several years. The Idemas have
been married for 11 years and have two daughters, Taylor (7), and
Allison (3). Tom has worked at Central Michigan University for
eleven years; his current job is Assistant
Director of Student Life.
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Robert Duncan Joynt has participated in the ministries of
Mt. Pleasant Community Church since 1995. Bob has enjoyed serving in
the areas of facility construction and maintenance, church
operations, as a trustee, and currently serves on the missions
committee, the Community Compassion Network Board and as a deacon.
Married to Kris for 38 years, Bob and Kris enjoy travel and frequent
trips to Chicago where their adult children, Elizabeth and Matthew,
live. Bob is currently employed as a trainer in the areas of human
development and resources.
Jan King is a founding member and elder at Community Church
with a solid Lutheran background. Prayer is her passion which she
enjoys sharing with her husband, two daughters and spouses and two
grandsons as well as everyone else. Teaching prayer, speaking on
prayer techniques and encouraging prayers has broadened her focus
and stretched her to strive towards her life verses: I Thess.
5:16-18 and Prov. 3:5-6.
Kathy Long has been on staff at Community Church for
eighteen years and is currently the Director of Children's and
Family Ministry. She also gives staff leadership to Women's Comedy
Night and the Mom's Heart Ministry. She is married to Ed Long,
Professor of Family Studies at Central Michigan University. Their
son, Toby, his wife, Andrea, and their granddaughter, Elise, live in
Grand Junction, Colorado, where Toby is doing his residency in
Family Medicine. Daughter Tarami teaches at Alma Public Schools and
is graduating in May with her Master's in Counseling Ed. Kathy loves
sharing hospitality through her home and being a guest speaker on a
variety of family and children's ministry topics.
Kathy Roberson has been attending Community Church since
1994. She has volunteered in many different areas of childrens
ministry. She is currently a team leader for the 3rd and 4th grade
KidZone classes, helps plan the summer Vacation Bible School, and is
in charge of the teaching supplies needed for VBS. She also helps
with the Mobile Food Pantries of Community Compassion Network.
During the week, Kathy is a Library Skills teacher at the elementary
schools of the Bullock
Creek School District in Midland, MI. She is a single mom of two
children: Sarah (22) and Ben (15).
Cal Seelye has been attending Community Church for over
twelve years. He has been involved in the Trustee Board for the past
four years, currently serving as the Chair. Cal and his wife,
Christa, will celebrate fifteen years of marriage on June 25, 2009.
Christa serves on the Children's Ministry team at Community Church.
They have three children: Shane (13), Lauryn (9) and Brett (7). All
are active in the ministries offered for their age group. Cal is
employed at Central Michigan University as an Assistant Director of
Residence Life.
Dean Wallin is a founding member of Community Church and
loves the churchs volunteerism and intergenerational makeup. He is
an elder but not currently on Session. He has been a small group
leader for twenty years and has also served as a trustee and deacon.
He works for Central Michigan University as the Director of the
Center for Leisure Services, coordinating internship placements and
an international student program with Walt Disney World. Dean is
married to Deb and they have two children: Bret, a professional
musician in the band Anathallo, and Bethany, a regional staffing
manager for Aramark in Chicago.
Deb Fahr is a founding member of MPCC. She serves in
children's ministry, directs the bell choirs, sings in the choir,
serves at VBS, is an elder (not currently serving) and she and her
husband Brad are involved in small group ministries. She and Brad
have been married for 35 years and have 2 sons-Erich(29), his wife
Jordan and special new grandson Jackson in Ohio and Matt(26) who
lives in California. By day you can find her teaching first grade at
Pullen School and one evening she teaches an education class at CMU.
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