Youth Education Pastor
With grateful praise and thanksgiving, we welcome Grant Winnes as our new Youth Education Pastor. Grant will be joining us on staff mid-July and will be shepherding our children, youth and their families! Praise God for His mercy to us!
Senior Pastor
Senior Pastor, Rev. Dr. Kenneth G. Lawrence began his ministry here in the fall of 1976. He grew up on a dairy farm in Western New York State, was led to trust Christ as his personal Savior at an early age and was encouraged in a walk of faith by Godly parents and involvement in a small country church.
Ken attended Houghton College where he first felt led of the Lord to consider pastoral ministry. It was also at Houghton where the Lord brought Connie into his life. Ken graduated from Houghton in 1973 and that fall, began seminary at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts. In 1974, he and Connie were married.
After graduation from Gordon-Conwell in the spring of 1976, Ken and Connie were led to Hampton Falls to assume pastoral responsibilities. While pastor here, Ken earned his Doctor of Ministry degree in 1987, also from Gordon-Conwell.
Connie’s interest in education has taken her from public school to preschool to Portsmouth Christian Academy. Since coming on staff at the academy she has spent several years teaching, several years as principal, two years as headmaster, and has now assumed responsibilities again as the principal of the lower school. Connie has earned a Master’s Degree from Cambridge College and her Doctorate from Nova University.
Connie and Ken have three boys. Derek was born in 1978 and is married to Julie. They live in Oklahoma City where they are university adjunct professors teaching music/piano. Ryan was born in 1980. He lives in Chicago where he is a student at the University of Chicago Medical School. Wesley was born in 1983. He lives in Cincinnati where he is working as an adjunct professor of voice while he completes his doctoral degree at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.
Pastor of Education
Dan Odom joined the Pastoral staff of our church in the fall of 2006. As a child, Dan grew up in Southern California and in the sixth grade he moved to Montana. Active in school and work, Dan was raised in a Christian home, but it wasn’t until his freshman year in college that he confessed and followed Christ as his Lord and Savior.
Dan graduated from The Master’s College where he sensed the Lord’s calling on his life to pursue the ministry full time. Upon earning a degree in Bible, he pursued and graduated from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon.
After seminary, he ministered as the Pastor of Youth and Music in a church located in Eastern Washington. In 2001, Dan moved to New Hampshire and became active in the teaching ministry of this church. It was here that the Lord brought Lauren into his life, and in 2004 they were married.
Dan and Lauren have two children, Graison and Anna.