Leadership

Pastor Chad came to know the Lord when he was 14 years old and spent the first bit of his walk in youth ministry before falling away in his later teen years. Once being fully steeped in a legalistic view of God, Chad believed that if he turned his back on the Lord, then the Lord would turn His back on him, so Chad took matters into his own hands, chasing all of the desires of this world.
"When I fell, as we all do, I fell victim to my own guilt and shame. Instead of running back to Christ in repentance, I believed He didn't want me anymore, so I ran away from Him instead. I fell far, far away from the God I had once loved." Chad describes it.
In 2011 Chad found peace in the faithful and loving hands of Jesus Christ as he returned to his first love and started serving at Calvary Chapel Salmon.
"I learned that God hadn't turned His back on me, and that I was just repentance away from His everlasting love and grace."
Chad is bi-vocational, he works a full time job during the week, on the road crew for the Worley Highway District, as a heavy equipment operator.  And he is pursuing his calling to the ministry as the Senior Pastor here at Calvary Chapel of the Palouse.
Chad has a heart for the community of Palouse, deeply desiring to reach the local community with the grace and love of Christ.
"I have found that I really enjoy getting to study God's word, give God's message of love to the lost, and hang out with God's people."

Dan became born again and quickly grew to love Jesus and the book by book, chapter by chapter, verse by verse reading and study of God's word. Dan shares a strong desire to help support missionaries where they are called to serve and has also found joy in serving during short term missions trips.

With a heart for worship and for Jesus, Darrel has served as the worship leader at Calvary Chapel of the Palouse since 2021. Darrel leads the worship team with a mixed style of old and new contemporary worship music. 

Though her mother never attended church, Norma and her sister were always allowed and excited to attend Sunday school on their own. In junior high/high school, Norma gave her life to Jesus and was baptized at a youth camp. She started attending a local church as she finished up high school.
After Norma graduated high school, she found herself being led astray into the realm of drugs and alcohol. During what she describes as a time when she was farthest away from God, He gave her the blessing of a son.
Coming back to the Lord was a long and slow process for Norma but eventually she found her way back to Him when He brought into her life, her husband, Jim, who was a Christian.
"After I decided to 'get off the fence' of trying to serve two masters, and stopped thinking that it was complicated to follow Jesus; my faith in Christ and prayer life have grown stronger with each passing day."
While spending time in prayer Norma asked the Lord how He was calling her to serve in the Church. The Lord was faithful to answer her and laid Sunday school on her heart. Norma has been faithfully serving in Sunday school since and we are blessed to have her serving alongside us.
With a heart to train the kids up in the Lord, Norma finds joy in encouraging the kids to be contributors to the body, ministering to their brothers and sisters in Christ.
"Something I tell the kids; 'If you think you can't do anything, you are wrong, because you can always pray.'"

Char was raised in a Christian home and attended church with her parents through childhood. As life came with it's heartbreaks and challenges Char found herself progressively making more decisions leading her away from a life submitted to Jesus. In 2010, Char met her husband, Ken, and in 2016  he came to the Lord and started inviting her to accompany him to church services. As the Lord slowly started to soften her heart Char found herself hesitant and though begrudgingly, she was willing to attend. A year later Char's heart started to open up to Jesus and she started letting Him in gradually. God then began to bring to light an understanding of all that she was taught in church as a child.  In 2019 Char faced the hard reality of the pain she was causing others. Abhorring the devastation she realized she was causing, she decided to really dig in to a relationship with Jesus, desiring nothing less than to fall in love with her Savior.
"He met me there and has been showing me who He is ever since."
When the need for another children's ministry leader presented itself, Char stepped in to fill that need. At least until someone else was called. The Lord began to soften her heart more and more to serving the children and she eventually found herself passionate about serving these children, eager to help them find their identity in Jesus.
Understanding the importance of Godly influence and guidance, Char expresses her heart for how the Lord has called her to not only teach these kids, but to be that pillar of support and love they need.
"This is a vulnerable age where kids are seeking their identity away from their parents. They need (trustworthy) people to speak into their lives, to encourage them and to love them the way God loves them." 

Shelley has been a resident of Palouse since early adulthood. Though she was raised in church she wasn't born again until after she became a mother.
In her teen years, Shelley viewed church as nothing more than craft time for kids, and a social gathering for adults, so her interest in attending diminished to nothing. When her oldest son was three years old, Shelley was invited to church and found it to be refreshingly different from what she remembered as a child. Shelley found saving faith in Christ. She was born again then baptized shortly after in December of 1996.
When she began to feel the Lord calling her to serve shortly after giving her life to Jesus, Shelley responded hastily. Always happy to serve wherever she was needed, Shelley found her true calling in serving and organizing the fellowship of her brothers and sisters in Christ. Knowing how important fellowship was and is to her, Shelley became dedicated to making sure the family at CCOP always has an opportunity to hang out together and encourage each other in Christ.
Shelley is also dedicated to serving and teaching the women in women's ministry, and still helps whenever and wherever she can.