Pastor Chip has been our senior pastor since July 2005.  He previously served as an assistant pastor for twelve years in Spring, Texas.  There he served as principal of a Christian school, taught in the adult Christian Education program, and assisted in the planning of both traditional and contemporary worship services.  Prior to his service in Texas, upon graduation from seminary, he taught for three years at both a Christian elementary/middle school and a community college while in private practice as a Marriage & Family Therapist in Clinton, Mississippi.  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 (10) and Elisabeth (7) who attend Hendersonville Christian School.

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.

Kristen has been serving as the director of music at Covenant Presbyterian Church since 2003.  A native of Pickens, South Carolina, she came to Hendersonville in 1996 and taught choirs at Apple Valley Middle School in Hendersonville and at the Carolina Day School in Asheville.  Whether conducting, singing, or teaching, she has been involved in making community music.  She has been a featured vocal soloist throughout the Carolinas and Florida.  Locally, she has performed with the Carolina Concert Choir, the Hendersonville Symphony, the Asheville Lyric Opera, and the Brevard Music Center.  As well as serving as the director of music at Covenant Presbyterian Church, she also is the conductor of the Hendersonville Chorale.  Kristen studied conducting at Florida State University where she earned both undergraduate and master's degrees in choral music education.  Kristen and her husband Steven have two sons Thomas (4) and Samuel (2).