Pastor Barb Haugerud
Pastor Barb grew up in Lakewood, CO, a suburb of Denver. She is a graduate of St. Olaf College and of Luther Seminary. Pastor has been married to her husband Cliff for 28 years. For 28 years she served as a Pastor in congregations in western North Dakota. She has been serving the Pella congregation since 2022 and on August 27, 2023 she was installed as the Senior Pastor.
Her hobbies include playing piano; walking; doing jigsaw puzzles; reading biographies and auto-biographies; biblical archaeology; worship, music, and the arts; and researching and writing Bible studies and Lenten worship series and studies.
We are very happy to have Pastor Barb and Cliff here at Pella Lutheran! (7/24)
Pastor Barb grew up in Lakewood, CO, a suburb of Denver. She is a graduate of St. Olaf College and of Luther Seminary. Pastor has been married to her husband Cliff for 28 years. For 28 years she served as a Pastor in congregations in western North Dakota. She has been serving the Pella congregation since 2022 and on August 27, 2023 she was installed as the Senior Pastor.
Her hobbies include playing piano; walking; doing jigsaw puzzles; reading biographies and auto-biographies; biblical archaeology; worship, music, and the arts; and researching and writing Bible studies and Lenten worship series and studies.
We are very happy to have Pastor Barb and Cliff here at Pella Lutheran! (7/24)
Parish Assistant - Bill Buckley
Bill Buckley began working for the Pella Lutheran Church on Monday, June 17, 2024. He and his family are members of the Zion Lutheran Church in Fairview.
He currently does Pulpit fill monthly in Richey Circle, and Glendive, Montana and even occasionally here at Pella Lutheran and in his home church of Zion. At this time Bill is helping full-time at Zion since their Pastor recently received another call in Fergus Falls, MN. Bill is also working on completing the LPA training program.
Bill and his wife Marsha have three grown children. Angela in Billings, Ryan in Fairview,
and Andi in Orange City, Texas. They are blessed to have seven grandchildren.
He has stepped away from working in the oilfield industry to continue working in ministry.
Bill is very happy to be here at Pella and is looking forward to meeting all of you and working with Pastor Barb, Chole, and Janelle.
(8/24)
Director of Youth & Family Ministries - Janelle Leader Lamb
Janelle began serving on February 17, 2014. In this position, Janelle helps to provide leadership, direction, and support for our ministries such as Wednesday Bible School and Vacation Bible School, and other youth ministries such as Confirmation and LYO. Janelle is a great asset to our congregation and program activities. She is working very hard here at Pella and just graduated from Luther Seminary with a Master of Arts degree in Children, Youth and Family Ministry.
Janelle has been a part of our ministry staff for over 10 years.
Thank you Janelle, we appreciate you more than you know!
(6/24)
Janelle has been a part of our ministry staff for over 10 years.
Thank you Janelle, we appreciate you more than you know!
(6/24)
Administrative Assistant - Chole D. Crosby
Chole started serving as our Administrative Assistant on March 6, 2015. In this position, her primary duties are to create the Sunday worship and announcement power point slides, missal for the Pastor, bulletins, update the Pella website and Pella's face book page, publish the monthly Ambassador, maintain a calendar of events, and share other responsibilities and duties as needed. Chole considers her time here a ministry and loves being a part of this church family. She is a Sidney native who returned home after working up north for 30 years. Chole has one daughter and a son-in-law in Texas and at home a large dog named Thor. We are glad to have her as a part of our staff and team here at Pella! Chole has been a part of our ministry since 2015 which is over 9 years now. (4/24)