Our pastor is the Reverend Chip Vining, who has been our senior pastor since July 2005.  Prior to his arrival in Hendersonville, he was an assistant pastor with Spring Cypress Presbyterian Church (PCA), located in a NW suburb of Houston, Texas for twelve years where he served as principal of their Christian school ministry.  Pastor Chip has extensive teaching experience having taught various age groups in schools like:  Mt. Salus Christian School (Clinton, MS), Hinds Community College (Raymond, MS), and Spring Cypress Presbyterian Schools (Spring, TX).  He has also taught youth and adults in the Christian Education programs of Providence Presbyterian Church (Clinton, MS) and Spring Cypress Presbyterian Church (Spring, TX). 

Pastor Chip was born and raised in Tampa, Florida, and is a graduate of the University of Florida (BS) and Reformed Theological Seminary (MA).  His passion is to preach the Word of God and to love God's people.  He and his wife Karen have two children, Jonathan (12) and Elisabeth (9) who attend Hendersonville Christian School.

Pastor Chip has a servant's heart and serves his community well.  He serves as secretary for the Henderson County Ministerial Association (an Evangelical association of pastors and para-church leaders), serves on the boards of Hendersonville Christian School and the Hendersonville Rotary Club, and is the chairman of the Reformed University Ministries Committee of the Western Carolina Presbytery which oversees the Reformed University Fellowships (RUF) at Appalachian State University and Western Carolina University.

 

Pastor Don has served as interim and assistant to the pastor at Covenant Presbyterian Church, collectively, for the past ten years.  He has served as a missionary to Eritrea, East Africa, and had pastorates in Ft. Lauderdale and Harmony, New Jersey.  He is a graduate of Calvin College (BA), Florida Atlantic University (M.Ed.), and Westminster Theological Seminary (M.Div.).  Don and his wife Jeanette have five children; one has gone on before them to heaven; and the others living in Johnson City, Tennessee; Panama Beach, Florida; Hope Sound, Florida; and Santiago, Chile.  They have eleven grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.

 

Our Interim Choir Director is Marissa Pope-Beck.  Prior to ariving in the area, Marissa served as the Director of Worship Music at Presbyterian Church in the Highlands in Lakeland, FL.  She also held positions of Adjunct Voice and Music Professor at Southeastern University and Harrison School of the Arts.  Marissa is married and has one son.