OUR INTERIM PASTOR, Matt Collins
Matt serves with the Interim Pastors Ministry. [IPM]
He served in New York for 8 years before moving to Dubuque, Iowa. He was the Senior Pastor at Hope Church in Dubuque for 25 years. After retiring from Hope Church, he joined IPM and most recently served in Broken Bow, NE helping them find their new Pastor.
Matt and Carol were married in 1982. They have 5 sons, and 8 grandchildren.
He served in New York for 8 years before moving to Dubuque, Iowa. He was the Senior Pastor at Hope Church in Dubuque for 25 years. After retiring from Hope Church, he joined IPM and most recently served in Broken Bow, NE helping them find their new Pastor.
Matt and Carol were married in 1982. They have 5 sons, and 8 grandchildren.
OUR ASSOCIATE PASTOR, Michael Foose
Michael and Shelby have been married since 2016. They have two wonderful children, Judah and Delta. Michael and Shelby share a passion for the work of ministry and enjoy serving together. They particularly enjoy opening their home for hospitality, discipleship relationships and couple counseling. As a family, they enjoy spending time in the great outdoors hiking, birding and stargazing. Michael was raised in a small town in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he grew up in a local church. Through the discipleship of his pastors, Michael felt the call to full-time ministry and attended Liberty University to study God’s word. While completing his Masters of Divinity, Michael had the opportunity to serve alongside his pastors as an intern, gaining valuable ministry experience during seminary. In 2021, God called Michael to serve as the family pastor at a local church in New Hampshire. Michael is passionate about discipleship, Gospel-centered community, and studying and teaching God’s word.
OUR YOUTH DIRECTOR, Chas Wyatt
Husband to Nicole, father of Willian and Daisy and son of the most High God!
Chas Wyatt has a passion for the younger generation. He desires for all to know and have a personal right relationship with God the Father through His son Jesus Christ.
Growing up in a large family as the eldest of 12 children, Chas loves fun and high energy. Though there is nothing wrong with slowing down and spending time enjoying every aspect of the life God has given us. He enjoys fishing, being outdoors, staying up late with others, adventuring, playing board games and generally just doing anything that brings laughs and fun.
Above all he desires that the grace shown to him on the cross be known to all.
OUR WORSHIP DIRECTOR, Ellen Beery
Ellen and her husband, Les returned to Iowa in 2021 after living in Southern California for over 40 years. Ellen’s family attended Britt Free Church and she asked Jesus to come into her heart at the age of 6 at her bedside with her mother’s help. She met Les at U of Iowa, where she got her Music Ed Degree and were married in 1980. Together they served with Campus Crusade for Christ at what was once CCC headquarters in Arrowhead Springs, San Bernardino, Ca. Les and Ellen stayed in the Inland Empire area after leaving Crusade Staff. She completed her Masters Degree in Music at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ. Ellen has taught private voice and piano throughout her life and served over 12 years of teaching music in Christian Schools and over 17 years with a Worship Ministry Staff, leading choirs and praise teams of all ages.
Singing and praising our Lord and Savior through music has been a way of life for Ellen, from playing piano for opening exercises in elementary Sunday school, playing piano and organ for church services, taking high school choirs on many summer mission trips, producing children’s choirs musicals and assisting and coordinating in the adult worship ministries weekly services and seasonal adult musicals, used as an outreach to the surrounding communities.
Psalms 108:1 is her life verse, “My heart, O God is steadfast; I will sing and make music with all my soul.”
Les and Ellen love to take daily walks, enjoy house projects and playing with their cat, Ted.
Other Staff
Office Manager – Katrina Peterson
Custodian – Tom Kardoes