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. 

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.