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Support Staff Profiles
| April Rowe, Assistant to Worship |
  April Rowe is the Emmaus and Celebration Worship Administrative Assistant. Her role is to work with the Emmaus and Celebration singers and instrumentalists – preparing the music,... |
| Brenda Johnson, Head Custodian |
 Brenda has served as church custodian since February of 1997 is the senior member and only woman in the Autumn Ridge Properities Dept and is the church's "queen of clean." She also assists with church calendar coordination, helps... |
| Carol Geselle, Administrative Secretary |
 Carol Geselle serves as Administrative Assistant to Pastor C. John Steer. Her duties include transcribing dictation for all correspondence, sermons, weddings, funerals, parent and child dedications, along with general secretarial and administrative duties. She also oversees monthly staff... |
| Colette Gilbertson, Accounting |
 I'm Colette Gilbertson and I attend to duties in several areas of the church office. I process fees for events, youth activities and special giving, I manage spread sheets for all short term mission trips and I... |
| Diane Ackerman, Student Ministries Worship Director |
 Diane Ackerman is the adult leader of the Youth Worship Team, and helps the student band and praise team plan, prepare, and rehearse a weekly worship set for the Saturday night high school and middle school programs. Also, each spring... |
| Dorothy Morris, Assistant to Worship |
 Dorothy Morris is the Worship Administrative Assistant. Her role is to assist in the preparation for the weekly Adoration and Celebration services. She also coordinates music preparation for the choir and orchestra and schedules all scripture readers and projection... |
| Elann Wright |
 Elann is the Wednesday night Kids’ Club coordinator for children’s ministries at Autumn Ridge Church and has been working on staff since... |
| Jacob Petersen, Business Manager |
 Jacob Petersen is the Business Manager at Autumn Ridge Church. His duties include accounts payable processing, cash management, vendor relations, budgeting facilitation, internal controls administration, human resources processing, and a variety of other business and accounting... |
| Katherine O'Grady, Assistant to Community Life |
 Katherine O’Grady is the Community Life Administrative Assistant. Her role includes assisting in the organization of visitors, new members, small groups, baptisms, and front door ministries. |
| Laurie Norton, Christos Bookcenter |
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Laurie is the manager of Christos Bookcenter. She, along with help from the bookcenter's Deacon ministry team, and the store's devoted volunteers work tirelessly at putting some of the highest quailty books onto the shelf. Laurie officially started her work at... |
| Leah King, Assistant to Student Ministries |
 Leah’s role includes administratively supporting the Middle School and High School ministries. She attended Northwestern College in Saint Paul where she received a bachelor’s of science... |
| Linnea Aaland, Receptionist |
 Linnea Aaland is a part-time receptionist. She enjoys the varied secretarial and receptionist duties on her afternoon shift. <p... |
| Martha Gibson, Facility Coordinator |
 My name is Martha Gibson and I serve as the Facility Coordinator at Autumn Ridge Church. In my position, I am privileged to work with our church staff and congregation assisting them in scheduling events on the... |
| Michelle DenHartog, Assistant to Children's Ministries |
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| Michelle Johnson, Assistant to Outreach & Discipleship |
 Michelle Johnson is the assistant working with Pastor Dan Farm with the Men’s, Women’s, and A.C.T.S. ministries of Autumn Ridge. Michelle came to faith in Christ at Easter time in 1982. She has been married to Dave since 1983, when they had their wedding at First Baptist on 16th Street. After... |
| Sara Krause, Receptionist |
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The main objective of my position as Assistant Receptionist is answering phone calls with a warm and friendly voice, making people comfortable while they wait for appointments with other support staff and being available to support staff to fulfill misc office tasks. I... |
| Sherrie Porterfield, Communications |
 Sherrie works with all areas of ministry at Autumn Ridge to enable effective communication to the congregation. Her main job each week is to produce the church newsletter, RidgeLines. She also produces other printed pieces that serve as informational publications within the church and community.... |
| TJ Schultz, Technology Specialist |
 TJ brings to Autumn Ridge a mix of technology and creativeness. Utilizing those gifts he oversees the ARC website, the introduction and integration of Church Community Builder (CCB), and Pastor Steer’s sermon... |
| Tom Regnier, Facilities |
 My ministry duties and responsibilities revolve around planning for and managing new construction, solving new project start-up issues, identifying and coordinating updates or enhancements needed for the existing campus operation. I’m also involved in assuring we meet city and county project... |
| Tom Ulwelling, Facility Director |
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Tom Ulwelling is the Facilities Director here at Autumn Ridge Church. His many tasks include overseeing the Facilities Department and facility staff, working on maintenance and repair issues, assisting the Facility Coordinator on the scheduling of events and meetings, ordering supplies and working... |