Our Pastoral Team, Staff, and Ministry Leaders

John Hovan

Senior Pastor

Pastor John Hovan is now our Senior Pastor! He is committed to leading our church into being an active part of our local community as people walking life out  in spirit and in truth. John serves as a member of our Elder team, oversees staff, the AA meetings, and casts vision for outreach initiatives. Most of all though, John loves to see Jesus bring people to Himself, and is passionate about creating a community where everyone can be discipled and experience deep fellowship with other believers. 

Shane Tyus

Youth, YA, & Social Media Pastor

Shane Tyus is our Youth and Social Media Pastor! Under his care, our youth group has grown in leaps and bounds both spiritually and in numbers. He leads several outreach initiatives, connects with our local school boards to keep us involved in the community, and meets youth for regular connection. He oversees our podcast, and is the first response on Social Media, as well as the writer behind our Word from the Pastor Encouragements. 

Michael Blouir

Recovery Service Director and Workshop Teacher

Michael Blouir is a true Evengelist in every sense of the word. He heads up our new Saturday Night Recovery Service led by those in all forms of recovery, for everyone, but especially for those in all forms of recovery. He also leads our Vines of Hope 12-Step workshop directed towards those who have loved ones in a 12-step program  and/or would like to work through the 12 Steps with a Biblical perspective and for their own growth.

Tom Bloom

Missions Pastor

Pastor Tom Bloom, our former senior pastor of many decades, is now serving as our Missions Pastor, and is a continued member of our Elder Team. He is passionate about fostering our relationships with our sister churches in South Asia and Ukraine, and is an advocate for their needs here in the USA. He can often be found early Sunday morning at the church, humming with a mug of coffee in hand.

Audrey Landis

Church Secretary

Childrens Ministry Director

Our lovely Audrey Landis is a woman of all trades! You might find her leading one of our Children's Sunday school classes, discipling in our youth ministry, cleaning the toilets, or taking notes for the church calendar. However you find her though, she always has a smile on her face and hop in her step. Remind her how thankful we are to have her, when you see her next! 

Bethany Coumos

Nursery Ministry Coordinator

Bethany Coumos is the reason why we have our Nursery Ministry! She carefully chooses the right people to care for our little ones, and oversees the ministry rotation alongside her husband, Greg. Bethany has aslo single handedly chosen new toys and revamped our nursery decorations. The Nursury is for littles ages 0-36 months.

Steve Bair

Mens Ministry Director

Steve Bair runs our Men of Steel ministry, as well as our sound system alongside of Drew almost every Sunday. He coordinates such events as BYOB (Buy Your Own Breakfast) Saturday Morning Breakfasts, Movie Nights, Burgers and Bullets Family Picnic and more! 

Joanna Sawders

Womens Ministry Director

Joanna can be found padding the church grounds in her bare feet and the most beautiful smile on her face! Jo runs our Women of the Vine Ministry and leads several church-wide events put on by the womens ministry, including our annual church-wide Chili Cook Off, the Fall Womens Retreat, a monthly coffee meet up, our Valentines Day Dance and Banquet and so much more!

Laura Bair

Worship Ministry Director

Laura is the faithful overseer of the Worship Ministry and all our worship leaders and musicians. Her vision is to see our community given opportunity to spend time in the presence of God through corporate and intimate Praise and Worship through song.

If you would like to get involved on teams, please reach out to Laura or Steve Bair. 

Drew Suffron

Co-Head Deacon Sound Director

Drew has faithfully served as Head Deacon as well as Sound Director. We can record our podcasts because of him. If there is an issue with sound? He's working on it. If it sounds good and you don't notice? That's because ... he fixed it. Besides all that, he can often be found playing drums for the worship team on a Sunday Morning!

John Archer

IT Ministry Director

John Archer is the main guy behind all things tech in our church. Our main screens project what he sets up. We have Live Streaming because of him! We have Wifi because of him. We have video surveilance because of him. We have powerpoint up ... because of him!

Chris Barto

Harvest Pantry & HUB Director

Chris Barto runs everything related to our Harvest Food Pantry. He is also behind the HUB which is a twice a month ministry where a hot meal is served, the word of God is taught, and people are given fresh groceries to take home.

Sarah Nepali Thapa

Church Adminstrator & Event Planner/Coordinator

It all started with the website... then Social Media Ministry. Then it expanded to a whole lot of other things, too. Sarah is now Community Vineyard's Church Administrator and is part time staff. She runs the website (hi), creates many of the graphics, and is often the mastermind behind the content on everything web related. She also is Event Coordinator, Sounding Board for Pastoral Staff, volunteer worship leader and admin,  and all around .... a somewhat acceptable human being.

Mona Hartshorn

Co-Head Deacon

Mona is one of our community's most dedicated servant-hearts. She has led many ministries over the years, including our Children's Ministry, our beloved Drama Ministry, as well as has helped Drew Suffron shoulder the Deacons Ministry. Mona might be found handing out communion, teaching the children, counting folks, cleaning out a storage space, or dreaming up the next drama production for our church! 

Tracy Coblentz

Accountant

Our book keeper. Tracy keeps all the elders and ministry leaders straight with their budgets, and keeps track of all things monetary!