Leadership

Vision

The vision of Green Pond Bible Chapel is to love God and love people.

Purpose

The purpose of Green Pond Bible Chapel is to glorify God by making and maturing disciples of Jesus Christ.

Elders

Green Pond Bible Chapel is led by elders (also known in Scripture as overseers and pastors). The pattern for church government in the New Testament shows that God desires spiritually qualified men to be responsible for shepherding, leading, and overseeing the church. This position is referred to by three different terms, most commonly translated as “elder,” “pastor,” and “overseer.” The qualifications for this position are listed clearly in 1 Timothy 3:1-7 and Titus 1:5-9. We believe that this position is limited to men, as taught in 1 Timothy 2:12 as part of God’s created design with no reference to value or ability.

At any given time some of our elders will be vocational pastors who are paid by the church and who have full time responsibilities. Vocational pastors do not possess any greater authority than our non-vocational elders.

Lead Pastor

Ryan Boys

Ryan’s passion in ministry is to see God change lives through the clear explanation of the Bible. His academic passion is understanding the Old and New Testaments in their original languages. His life verse is Ezra 7:10, “For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.”

He earned his doctorate of ministry in Preaching the Literary Forms of the Bible from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He has a master’s degree in Biblical Exegesis and Linguistics from Dallas Theological Seminary, focusing on Greek and Hebrew exegesis, discourse analysis, semantics, theories of grammar, and translation. He earned his bachelor of arts in Bible Exposition from the Master’s College. One of the highlights of his time in college was to spend a semester studying in Israel. Ryan joined the GPBC family in August of 2011. He has been active in worldwide missions in St. Petersburg, Russia, New Zealand, and Mexico.

Ryan is a husband and father of four amazing children. He enjoys sports, reading, woodworking, music, and throwing a frisbee for his yellow lab. He blogs on the church and ministry here.

Pastor of Worship & Discipleship

Jesse Morgan

Jesse is thrilled to be able to engage in discipleship both corporately in the worship service and personally in counseling and small group contexts. He loves leading the body in the worship of God in the face of Jesus Christ, and making and maturing disciples of Jesus. Although he grew up in Audubon, NJ, he came to the GPBC family in 2016 after finishing his MDiv at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. There he focused on biblical history, languages, and counseling, and was involved in the worship ministry at Auburndale Baptist Church. He earned his B.S. in Bible at Clarks Summit University (Baptist Bible College), where he also minored in music and met his wonderful wife Bethany. He also had the opportunity to study abroad at Jerusalem University College during his junior year. He is a certified Biblical Counselor through the Association of Biblical Counselors, and is a Certified Christian Trauma Care Provider. 

He enjoys counseling, men’s ministry, writing new texts for old hymn tunes, reviving old hymns in fresh new ways, and using newer songs to bring the body together in unity to glory in the gospel. His other hobbies include keeping up with his four children, Silas, Shiloh, Lucy, and Atticus, wood carving, bouldering, soccer, volleyball, paper airplanes, and painstakingly following Philadelphia sports. You can read his blog on worship and the Christian life here.

Family Pastor

Josh Barlow

Josh Barlow is the Associate Pastor of Family and Youth at Green Pond Bible Chapel. His ministerial focus is to see youth come to a personal, saving trust in Jesus Christ and equip families to disciple their children. To that end, he graduated from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2018 with his Masters of Divinity with a focus in Family Life and Discipleship. Since then Josh has continued his work with the youth in hopes that many more come to faith in Christ and choose to trust him with their lives.

Josh has been married to his beautiful and loving wife Jamie since 2013. They have three energetic and fun children, Asher, Owen, and Macy. Although young, all three kids keep Josh and Jamie on their toes and manage to make everyday unboring. As a family they enjoy hiking, cooking (and then eating), discipling, board games, and movie watching. Personally Josh enjoys coffee, video games, reading, thick flannel, throwing objects, and cannons. You can read his blog on family ministry and the Christian life here.

Chairman

Engle Oostdyk

Engle and his wife Carrie are the parents of five children. He is a co-owner and General Manager of Royal Buick GMC located on Route 23 in Sussex. He has been attending Green Pond Bible Chapel his entire life and his ministry passion is the equipping of the saints for the ministry of the gospel. He enjoys teaching and counseling from the truth of God’s word, and is currently serving on the biblical counseling team at GPBC as a certified ACBC counselor.

Vice-Chairman

Dennis Madison

Dennis and his wife Joy are the parents of one son named Samuel. They spent 7 years working in an orphanage in Ghana West Africa. They have been attending Green Pond Bible Chapel since they moved to New Jersey in 2008. Dennis has recently retired from being Service Manager for General Electric in the Power Generation business. He enjoys studying and teaching God’s word, especially at the men’s Bible Study on Wednesday mornings. One of his favorite verses is John 3:30 “He must increase, but I must decrease.”

Treasurer

Lou Benfatti Jr.

Bio Coming Soon

Secretary

Will Walsh

Will has been attending Green Pond since his early youth and was saved as a teenager when the Lord opened his eyes to the reality of his sin and brought him to repentance and faith in Christ. He and his wife, Sarah, have been serving as youth leaders at Green Pond for over 5 years and have a desire to share with the teens the truth about the saving and soul-satisfying relationship with Jesus Christ. Will works at Chick-fil-A where he has the opportunity to display the character and love of Jesus with the employees that he serves. His life verse is Titus 3:3-8.

Rob Downs

Rob is married with two daughters and three grandchildren, who he loves spending time with. Rob has a passion for seeing people grow deeper into spiritual maturity. His life verse is 1 Peter 1:3 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead”

Marc Fenners

Marc is married and has been an active member of Green Pond Bible Chapel for many years. He has worked as a carpenter/tradesman since high school. Marc enjoys hunting, fishing, camping, hiking, cool weather, tacos, and worshipping and fellowshipping with his brothers and sisters in Christ. His favorite verse is Galatians 2:20 “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me”.

Pat Walsh

Pat came to a saving faith in Jesus Christ in 2001 and has been a member of GPBC since 2005. He is happily married and blessed with an adult daughter. He has served the body in many areas including youth ministry, outreach, graphic & web design, and currently serves on the worship team and leads a care group. His favorite verses are Colossians 2:13-15 “And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.”

Deacons

The elders are assisted, as in the New Testament model, by men and women qualified to serve a deacons. The qualifications for deacons are listed in 1 Timothy 3:8-13. The role of the deacons is to meet practical needs in the church to assist the pastors in leading the church.

Men’s Discipleship

Russell Bauman

Russell has been attending GPBC since 2002. He helps run the family business A B Canine with his wife Gwen. He has strong passion for mens ministry as it has been a vital part of his faith journey. He currently serves on the finance team and facilitates a men’s discipleship group at his home. Russ believes strongly in building each other up. His life verse is Proverbs 27:17 “Iron sharpens iron, and one person sharpens another.”

Women’s Discipleship

Bethany Morgan

Bethany is passionate about walking and growing alongside other women to encourage and help them step into their God-given identity and use their giftings within the body for the furtherance of God’s Kingdom. She disciples women and leads the Women’s Discipleship ministry. She went to Baptist Bible College and received a bachelors in Bible where she met her husband, Jesse, and got married shortly after. She hopes to pursue further education in counseling as time allows within the next few years. Bethany is also the mother of four beautiful children, whom she gets the opportunity to homeschool. She loves learning with them and teaching them about God and the world.

Children’s Ministry

Paul Martins

Paul lives in Kearny, with his wife and two young kids. They have been attending GPBC since 2016. He currently serves as a Kingdom Kids teacher and is a member of the Children’s Ministry team.
His favorite verse is Romans 5:1 “Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Benevolence

John Voigt

John lives in Rockaway, with his wife, Maryellen and their 4 children. He has been in the Financial Services industry for over 30 years and continues to work in that field. John enjoys skiing, fishing and golf. John’s spiritual journey kicked into high gear when he was 26 after being discipled by a full time Navigator Missionary. Since then, John has enjoyed participating in kingdom endeavors through his church and business ministry groups.

Upward

Dan Brown

Danny has been attending Green Pond Bible Chapel all of his life and came to know the Lord Jesus as his Savior at a young age. He’s currently a high school science teacher, and coaches football during the fall. He thoroughly enjoys all sports and playing games of any kind. Danny had the wonderful opportunity at a young age to participate in the Upward ministry, since it was started by his grandfather. He has always had a passion for youth ministry in sports so this is a huge blessing as he’s able to use the gifts God has given Him to serve Him. Danny and his wife, Cassie, just welcomed their baby boy Caleb and are excited to see God use the Upward ministry for his glory! Danny’s life verse is Matthew 6:33 ” but seek first, his kingdom, and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well”.