Walt Mize

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Vaughn Wood

• Founder & Lead Pastor of New Heights Church
  Located:  708 W Nora Ave Spokane, WA 99205
  (509) 443-2631
  Email: churchoffice@newheightsspokane.org
  Blog: www.pastorvaughn.blogspot.com
  Web Site: www.NewHeightsSpokane.org
  Affiliated with the Open Bible Churches
  Vaughn has been involved in pastoral ministry for over twenty-four years, twenty of which as a church planter.  He assists the Pacific Region of the Open Bible Churches on the West Coast with church plant recruiting, training and coaching.  He has a passion to see ministries throughout the Inland Northwest connect and strategically advance the Kingdom of God by any means necessary.  Vaughn and his wife Myrtha have been married for twenty-three years, are the proud parents of four kids and one son-n-law.  They moved to Spokane May of 2000 to plant New Heights Church which currently functions from three locations: North Central worship services at 708 W Nora (soon to be moved to North Central High School Auditorium fall of 2009); Leadership & Business Center at 7115 N Atlantic and a North East Food Bank and Soup Kitchen in Hillyard at 2524 E Queen.  Vaughn enjoys fly fishing, snow shoeing, hiking, biking and surfing when he can get to the coast

Greg Luce

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Galen Doughty

• I was born in Pullman, WA in 1953, and then immediately my parents moved to Long Beach, WA where I grew up until the 7th grade. We then moved to Sumner, near Tacoma, where I graduated from Sumner High School in 1971. I went on to Whitworth College (now Whitworth University), graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in May of 1975. That same month I married my wife Betty and we moved to Pasadena, California where I began Fuller Theological Seminary. I graduated from Fuller in 1978 with my M.Div. I was ordained in the Presbyterian Church USA and began my ministry as an Associate Pastor at Marine View Presbyterian Church in Northeast Tacoma. We stayed at Marine View for 6 years and both our daughters were born while at Marine View. In 1984 we moved to Richland, WA where I was solo Pastor at Meadow Springs Presbyterian Church for 8 years until we moved to Spokane in 1993. I came back on staff as Associate Pastor at Manito Presbyterian on South Hill until November of 2001 when we left Manito to begin Southside Christian Church. In 2004 I became one of the Teaching Pastors at Southside and continue in that role today.
              I have two grown daughters, Laura and Sara. Laura teaches high school in Las Vegas, Nevada. Sara is currently in Germany where she works for Young Life International with American military teens. She will return to Spokane this summer to get married then she and her new husband Adam will live in Michigan.
              I love sports, especially the Seahawks, and listening to music of all kinds but my favorite is classical. I enjoy backpacking and I get to lead a men’s backpack trip each summer that is one of the highlights of every summer. I love to read, especially science fiction and fantasy and J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis are my favorite authors.
              The book that has impacted me the most over the last several years is The Present Future by Reggie McNeal. It outlines the changes in our culture and how the church must respond to them. The people that have impacted me the most in my life are my parents and especially my father, who loved the Lord and modeled for me what a godly man and husband was like. Dr. Glenn Barker of Fuller Seminary was the professor that shaped my thinking and theology more than anyone else during my seminary years. He too has had a lasting impact on my life.

Cary Penden

• Cary Peden is an experienced pastor currently serving Fellowship Church in North East Spokane.  Over the past 20 years, Cary has worked at local, state and national levels of ministry to provide leadership, training, and service to the larger body of Christ for the advancement of the Kingdom of God.  He has worked with children, youth, music, administration, Bible study, service, preaching and just about anything else that is needed in the church. He has a passion for Christ, a love for the church, and works to simply be a blessing to people through kindness and acts of service.  In addition to pastoral ministry, Cary is also working with a regional music ministry called Gloryband and also serves as a Child Ambassador for World Vision.  Cary lives in Spokane with Sandy, his wife of 23 years, and their 2 boys.  When not serving in ministry, Cary enjoys golf and riding his motorcycle.  He can be contacted at fellowshipchurch@qwest.net

Norm Thomas

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