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Randy Sprinkle, Interim Senior Pastor
Randy brings over 35 years of ministry experience to his role at Grace Baptist Church during this time of transition. He also is currently serving as Director of Transformational Leadership for the Baptist Convention of New England. He holds Master of Arts in Missiology, Master of Divinity, and Doctor of Ministry degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological seminary. He also has a Bachelor of Science degree from Missouri State University.
For twenty-four years, he served with the International Mission Board (IMB) in various assignments from church planter to mission administrator living in several African nations. For the last nine years of this time, he served in a world-wide ministry as director of prayer strategy for the IMB, traveling in an extensive preaching and teaching ministry. He has written three books on prayer and spiritual warfare.
He is married to Nancy, and they have two sons; Matthew, an engineer in Washington, DC, and Stephen, who is newly married and an entrepreneur in Boston.
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Connie Bailey, Administrative Assistant/Receptionist, Phone ext: 100
Connie brings over 15 years of experience in a business environment with a diverse background in high level executive support, office administration, and sales/ marketing. She has a Bachelor’s Degree of Business Administration, International Business from American InterContinental University, Atlanta GA..
Her responsibilities include front desk receptionist and administrative assistance that under girds ministry growth and development at Grace. Additionally, her advanced administrative skillset offers support to the Executive Assistant/Office Manager in areas of communications and daily operations.
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Ruth Blandin, Finance Manager, Phone ext 130
As the Finance Manager, Ruth is responsible for maintaining all financial records of the church and working with ministry leaders on any budgetary or financial questions.
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Sue Blanton, Resource Coordinator for Children's Ministries, Phone ext 133
Sue has been a member of Grace Baptist church with her family since the Marlboro Middle school years. She and her husband Bob are the parents of four young-adult children.
Sue is active in the WOW Bible studies, and enjoys encouraging women of all ages with God’s word.
Family camping, reading, hiking and motorcycle trips with her husband are some of her favorite activities.
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Dane Burk, Pastor of Youth Ministries, Phone ext: 108
Dane Burk is the husband of Loyda and father of 4 children. Maddie, Hunter, Elijah, and Mollierose. He accepted God's call to be the Director of Youth Ministries at Grace while serving as a team leader for a Teen Missions Internatonal team in the Amazonian jungles of Ecuador. Dane served six years as a missionary serving and training teens - five years in Ecuador. He also served as a youth director in Georgia prior to that. Dane is a former Marine and University of Florida graduate. |
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Bob Entwistle, Pastor of Children's Ministries, Phone ext: 103
Bob has over twenty years of experience serving various churches in the areas of Christian Education. Pastor Bob come to us from Ohio having served the last four years at Fellowship Bible Church. He has a passion to not only reach children with God’s loves and biblical truths, but to also use God’s Word to equip and strengthen parents. He brings to us his enthusiasm and creativity for establishing small groups, ministry teams, leaders and a dynamic children’s ministry. Pastor Bob’s goal is to create a heart-filled, relevant, kid-friendly and Christ-centered environment where both children and parents are drawn to Jesus and want to come back week after week. He also looks forward to reaching out to children and families in the community.
Pastor Bob received his Bachelors degree from Cedarville University (Ohio), his MTh degree from Grand Rapids Baptist Seminary (Michigan), and completed all but his doctoral dissertation in Education at Temple University (Philadelphia).
Bob met his wife Caron (from South African) while serving on a short-term summer mission trip with ABWE. They have four children who love to play sports, air-soft, DDR, and Guitar Hero.
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Laurie Gaudette, Administrator of Children's Ministries, Phone ext: 119
Laurie serves part-time in the All Stars Children's Ministries office. She ensures proper supply levels for use by teachers and monitors attendance records and guest registration. She assists teachers in follow-up and care of class members and distribution of curriculum.
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Louise Hale, Care and Connection Administrator, Phone ext: 112
Louise provides support and connectivity to the ministries of Grace for the purpose of keeping clear the path from the door, to membership, to ministry involvement for those who visit the church. She is also the acting Wedding Coordinator, Church Clerk, Membership Coordinator and office support.
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Bob Hanson, Director of Facilities and Operations, Phone ext: 102
As Facilities Coordinator, Bob supervises the custodial staff, manages contracts for insurance and maintenance of the various building systems. He also is a liaison for the computer system support and handles requests for using the building for special events, and ensures that the grounds and building are safe and inviting for all.
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André Kuhn, Pastor of Brazilian Ministries, Phone ext: 106
As a Portuguese-speaking Pastor, André is responsible for Brazilian and Portuguese people who attend Grace Baptist Church. He coordinates all programs with the Portugueses-speaking Ministry, which include service in the Portuguese language, discipleship, visitation and all Pastoral care. He has a Bachelor of theology degree from Word of Life Seminary in Brazil. André Kuhn comes from Brazil in 2000 and is married to Rebecca since 1999.
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Teri Snitchler, Assistant to Youth Ministries, Phone ext: 113
Teri provides administrative support to the youth which includes database management, communications, special projects, and provide overall general clerical support to the Youth Administrator.
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Beth Vinton, Executive Assistant, Phone ext: 110
Beth is a life-long resident of Massachusetts and mother of five. She has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Massachusetts as well as years of experience in marketing, administration, and business. As an inspirational leader and seasoned teacher of the Word, Beth has used her organizational skills and extensive experience in recruiting and developing volunteers to support and facilitate exponential growth in a church plant, helping to expand into multiple site locations. She brings both suburban and urban ministry experience to Grace, offering unique insight in sharing the love of God with the communities we serve.
Her responsibilities as Executive Assistant at Grace include administrative support to the Senior Pastor, the Board of Elders and other executive pastoral staff. As coordinator of administrative support staff, Beth oversees the management and function of the office operations and selected all-church events.
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Don Whitesel, Pastor of Care and Connection, Phone ext: 111
A native of Indiana, Don moved to New England in 1980 along with his wife, Kathie, and two young sons, to serve in an independent church plant. He came to Grace Baptist Church the Christmas of 1994 and began serving first as Small Groups Coordinator and later as Minister of Pastoral Care. Now a father of four, his duties include assimilation, baptism classes and baptisms, church membership classes, benevolence, hospital and other visitation, premarital counseling, crisis intervention, the Stephen Ministry, and the development of counseling resources. He also performs weddings, funerals, and assists in other church functions.
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