NCS Bergen County

Pastor Tim is the Senior Pastor of Calvary Chapel North Jersey in Passaic, NJ. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Pastor and Worship Leader at Harvest Christian Fellowship in Manhattan for 12 years. In 2003, the Lord lead him to start a Bible Study in North Jersey which quickly grew and CCNJ was founded later that year. In 2006, he left his career as an IT Professional and Project Manager with a l...

Brendan Da Silva is the Founder and CEO of Da Silva Team, a residential real estate team that sold 90M in volume and 216 homes in 2021. Brendan graduated with a degree in pastoral ministry from Nyack College in 2016 but no more than a month after graduation served six months in jail. When he was released he could not find suitable work so upon the encouragement of family and friends, he began purs...

Fred Provencher has been the Senior Teaching Pastor at Cornerstone Christian Church since February 1996. Before coming to Cornerstone, he was the Youth Pastor at Hawthorne Gospel Church, where he was ordained in 1994. He has also served with churches in Colorado Springs and Somerset, NJ. Fred has a B.A. in history from Rutgers University, an M.Div. from Denver Seminary and a D.Min. in preaching fr...

John Rivera began working with local nonprofit organizations during the late 1980′s and continues serving throughout the northeast to this very day. Over the years, John also enjoyed the opportunity to serve in a variety of volunteer leadership positions with numerous organizations. Some of those roles included that of board member and adviser. John has an extensive background as a trainer and con...

Tom Lane is Vice Chairman and a founding partner of ECP. ECP is a private equity firm that invests in the energy infrastructure sector and has $20 billion under management. He serves on the boards of Wisconsin Energy, Sendero Midstream and US Development Group. Prior to helping establish ECP in 2005, Tom worked for 20 years in the Energy investment banking group at Goldman Sachs. Tom has extensive...

David Sutherland is the Chair of the Board for International Care Ministries, a charity that focuses on the ultra-poor in the Philippines through 10,000 slum churches. ICM has designed a four-month anti-poverty training program called Transform. At the end of this four-month program, ultra-poor participants experience a 146% increase in income, a 27% reduction in illness, and a 46% increase in an...

Aaron us the Senior Pastor at Grace Church of Ridgewood.  His main responsibilities are setting the vision and direction of the church along with the elders, leading the staff, preaching, and shepherding the congregation. Aaron’s passion and burden, which God has increasingly stirred in his heart over the past five years, has revolved around the gospel of Jesus Christ proclaimed and applied in the...

Ron Hutchcraft is a 40-plus-year veteran of youth and family ministries. Ron presents the Gospel across North America and around the world, through city-wide evangelistic “Community Impact Weeks,” parenting seminars, singles’ events, youth outreaches and business/professional dinners. He is the author of several ground-breaking books, including his most recent –Living Peacefully in a Stressful Wor...

Jesse Kroeze is a passionate innovator, a lover of culture, and a coffee connoisseur. He is known for being a deep-thinker, a peace-making leader, an avid entrepreneur, and an eternal student. Jesse and his wife, Andrea, are a power-team full of enthusiasm related to global missions, adoption and living out the Kingdom of God. A New Jersey native, Jesse traveled around Central America after gradua...

George Verwer is the Founder and former International Director of Operation Mobilization (OM), which is a ministry of evangelism, discipleship training and church planting. George led Operation Mobilization for over 40 years before stepping down in August 2003. Saved at the age of 16, George returned to his school in northern New Jersey and within a year about 200 of his classmates had found a rel...

Woody is the founder and President of Street 2 Street, a ministry reaching underprivileged and neglected youth via unique sporting events. Street 2 Street began with street ball tournaments in the boroughs of New York City, but has garnered national attention for its innovative approach and remarkable results and is expanding throughout the U.S. The success of the street ball tournaments revealed...

What does community mean for you? Who do you want to spend more time with? Who are you waiting to encourage? Your heroes didn’t wait, mine didn’t either In this race our active discipline and faith is required. We need community, we need to be held accountable, in order to flourish. Will you be remembered as one of these great heroes of the faith? Like my grandfather and my best friend were? Are y...

Fast-Starting a Career of Consequence: A Providential Book Journey I. My Faith Journey Not Raised in a Worshipping Family My Mystical Adolescent Experience An Enduring Faith & Desire to Learn More Retired Early to Pursue a Life-Long Dream II. Retirement Pursuits Spiritual Development (Yale Divinity School) College Teaching (Fairfield University) Board Service (5 Non-profits & 2 For-profits) Mentor...

Kingdom-Minded Business Leader Parable of the Sower Not a 2x impact, a 30x, 60x, 100x impact What are 3 ways a leader can have a Kingdom-Minded Impact? How can God use you? Love others the way Christ loved us
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