About Our Pastors:

Rev. Dave Sarafolean our senior pastor.  He is a native of St. Paul, Minnesota.  He is pursuing a ThM degree in Historical Theology at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary in Grand rapids, Michigan.  He has earned a Master’s of Divinity degree from Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri and Bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point in Water Resources.  After college spent eight years as a staff member of Campus Crusade for Christ.  He has served churches in Pennsylvania and Michigan. He and his wife Rhonda have three children.  He occasionally blogs at http://joshuajudgesruth.blogspot.com/

Rev. Dan Bratt is our assistant pastor.  He was ordained in the Christian Reformed Church and served the same congregation in New Jersey for twenty years.  He earned his Master’s of Divinity degree from Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  Prior to that he completed a bachelor’s degree from Calvin College, then pursued graduate work in zoology at Michigan State University.  Dan completed a master’s degree, and was about to begin his doctoral work when God called him into ministry.  He served for several years as a campus worker with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in eastern Michigan before going to seminary.  He and his wife, Kathy, have   six children and one grandchild.