Our Staff
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Art Barrett, Lead PastorI am Pastor Art Barrett. My wife Angela grew up in Mendicino County. I grew up in the Bay Area and have two daughters of whom we are proud, Maddie and Katie. I have a great team of people at New Life you will want to meet. They make New Life a place that is young, authentic, relational, multi-cultural and alive. Read more... |
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Sharon Wood, Children's PastorI'm Sharon Wood, Director of Children's Ministry (birth through six grade,) here at New Life Christian Fellowship. New Life Kids! is a wonderful program that brings Bible truths to your children in a way that they will both love and remember. In fact, it's our goal that New Life is so engaging that your kids are actually dragging you out of bed on Sunday mornings not wanting to be late for church! Read more... |
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Matt Butler, Worship Leader |
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Michele Maule, Director of OperationsI'm Michele Maule, your friendly neighborhood Director of Operations. I love working at New Life because my church family is made up of the people I would love to hang out with everyday — so I do! I'm the organizer on the staff. I live in Pleasant Hill with my husband Don, two children (Micah and Laura), a dog, a cat, two guinea pigs and some fish. I work in the New Life office. I like chocolate, mystery novels, scrapbooking, organizing stuff and working in the garden. |
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Kathy Promessi, Office ManagerKathy Promessi has been office manager at Chestnut Avenue Community Church (Now New Life) for over 23 years! She has served under a number of pastors and has been reliable and wonderful. |
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Martha Echols, TrusteeMartha has served with New Life Kids! for several years and now teaches in our One Way/Passport (elementary grades) classes. She knows personally how important Sunday School is to children because she came to faith at six years old, led by her Sunday School teacher. Besides that, Martha just seems to have a great time on Sunday mornings with the kids – and the kids have a great time with her, too! Martha has raised two beautiful daughters, who are now in college and has worked for 25 years in the financial services industry. Martha also serves New Life as a member of the Board of Trustees. |
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Allen Norleen, TrusteeI'm Allen Norleen one of the church Trustees. My job is to listen to our heavenly Father, as I help evaluate the needs of our church family and pastor so that, we properly use the church's resources to His glory. Another role I play is to lead our sound team. Steve, Mark, Don and I do our best to make our worship sound the best it can be. Our awesome worship team makes the job pretty easy. I'm proud to service this church and our Savior. |
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Phil Wood, Trustee |
