Jim Laero, Senior Pastor

Jim Laero, Senior PastorPastor Jim answered the call to ministry as a teenager. By age twenty-five Pastor Jim had served as a street evangelist, deacon and church elder. In 1981 Pastor Laero, along with a handful of local believers, founded what is now Grace Community Church, where he was apointed Senior Pastor in October of 1982. In his thirty-five years of ministry he has founded more than a dozen ministries that have impacted people regionally and around the world; some of which are; CPAC - the Christian Performing Arts Company, the American Christian Heritage Group, the Alle-Kiski School of Biblical Studies, Alle-Kiski Inspired, and the Kiski Valley Food Bank. Several of these ministries were early pioneer works integrating new technologies and Internet capabilities to publish the Gospel. Pastor Laero is also an accomplished psalmist in the composition of contemporary Christian music. Pastor Jim, the father of four and grandfather of five, lives in Allegheny Township, Pennsylvania.
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Judy West, Pastor / Elder

Judy West, Pastor / ElderPastor Judy came to Christ through an outreach of Grace Community Church. She has served through the years at the church as a deaconess, Sunday school teacher, youth leader and as the overseeing elder of the music ministry prior to being set into pastoral ministry in 1999. Having come from a background of abuse, Pastor West readily relates to the challenges of many women in today's society. She ministers from an amazing and incredible testimony of the Father's mercy throughout her life. Pastor West serves as the Grace Community Church administrator and is the co-founder of the Kiski Valley Food Bank, Greater Wind Christian Band, the GCC Summer Youth Camp and the Life Discovery Journey video series. Pastor West resides in Vandergrift and is the mother of four and grandmother of nine.
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Chris Myers, Pastor / Elder

Chris Myers, Pastor / ElderPastor Chris grew up in Grace Community Church and has proven himself over the years as a man of God and a man of faith. Moving here with his family from New York while in junior high school, Chris earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Minor in Applied Mathematics from Geneva College in 1990. Faithful in all of God's House, he shepherds members in areas that include building and grounds, physical resources & technology, transportation and deacons. Chris served as Associate Pastor through 2008 and was ordained as a Grace Community Church pastor in June of 2009. A generous man, Chris daily pours out his life to the members of the church. He and his wife Amy were married in 1990, and have two children, Gil and Katie. They live in Allegheny Township.
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