Leadership

Meet the pastors and ministry leaders serving Praise Tabernacle and helping lead the church in worship, discipleship, outreach, and care.

Joshua Kennedy

Senior Pastor, Director of Praise Worldwide Missions

Pastor Joshua is our Senior Pastor of Praise Tabernacle and Director of Praise Worldwide Missions. He is passionate about biblical teaching, discipleship, and helping people grow in Christ while advancing the work of the Gospel locally and around the world.

Roger Perry

Pastor Emeritus

Pastor Roger retired as Senior Pastor in 2003 and now serves as Pastor Emeritus. He continues to faithfully help around the church grounds and serves as part of the worship team.

Flavien & Jessica Kalisa

Flavien serves as our Head Usher/Greeter
and also serves as a Deacon.
Jessica serves as our Praise Bible Institute Director

Loraine Kennedy

Office Administrator, Women’s Ministry Leader, Counselor

Loraine serves in our church office day-to-day operations while also ministering to women and offering care to those in need. She serves alongside her husband, Pastor Joshua Kennedy.

Liz Rich

Financial Director

Donavan & Karen Charles

Donavan serves as our Worship Director.
Karen serves in our Children's Ministry nursery
and toddler classrooms.

Steve Rahter

Associate Pastor, Counseling Pastor

Pastor Steve serves as Associate Pastor and Counseling Pastor at Praise Tabernacle. He served as Senior Pastor from 2003 to 2023. Through the years, he has faithfully ministered through pastoral leadership, biblical counsel, and care for the church family.

Joel & Arelis Eugene

Discipleship Pastors, Altar Ministry

Bill & Suzanne Robinson

Elder/Media Department/Video/Photography,
Youth leaders

Bill serves as an Elder and helps lead the Media Department. Sue serves through photography and video as part of the media team. Together, they are also involved in the youth department.

Kathy Brown

CARE Group Coordinator & Inner Healing Director

Greg & Regina Wilkins

David & Wanda Roberts

Greg is our Head Deacon. Regina serves alongside Pastor Joshua & Loraine as office administrator. Together they serve as Event Coordinators &
Directors of our Children's Ministry
Generation Praise.

Pastor David serves as our Pastor of Teaching
and leads our Sound Ministry, Wanda serves as Co-Director of
Ministering Arts

Rich & Johan Martin

Rich serves as Co-Director of our
Inner Healing Ministry.
Johan serves as our Ministry Coordinator.
Together they serve on our Altar Ministry prayer team.