Dr. Norm Wakefield
Interim Pastor / Elder

Lake Pleasant Community Church is privileged to have Dr. Norm Wakefield serving as interim pastor while we seek to fill the permanent Senior Pastor position.  Norm is a wonderful teacher of God’s Word, emphasizing individual spiritual growth, practical application, developing strong biblical based families, and building up of the church body.

Norm and his wife Winnie, who shares Norm’s compassion for people, have been married for 46 years and have five children.  They split their residency between Arizona in the winter and Colorado in the summer.

Dr. Wakefield is a Professor Emeritus of Phoenix Seminary, has served as the pastor of Shared Life Fellowship, taught at Talbot School of Theology, and authored or co-authored many books.  Although Dr. Wakefield’s academic, professional, and publishing credentials are substantial, around church he prefers to be known as “just Norm”.

Hometown: Born in South Danville, New York
Favorite TV Show: Andy Of Mayberry
Favorite Book: Practice of the Presence of God; Brother Lawrence
People Who Have Influenced You The Most: My grandfather, Fay Learn; Graduate Professor Lois LeBar, for her godliness and skill as a teacher.
Favorite Movie: Anne of Green Gables
How do you like to spend your free time? I enjoy reading biographies, history or western novels.
Hobbies: I'm a "tinkerer." I like to repair things that require some creative thinking.
What would you like to see God do in the American Church? We need to be hunbled. We have become like the secular world in which we live, in affluence and needing to be entertained. If we have to face persectution and hardship it will have a positive effect on us.
Spiritual Gift: Teaching that is worked out as a shepherd of our Lord's people.

Joe Tuerff
Elder - Email

Joe and Carol  are a great compliment in giftedness and passions. The Tuerffs are part of the original core team of four couples who started this church. They bring to this church a wealth of leadership ability and experience to our church. Joe is an area director for a large temporary labor firm in the valley. Carol is director of Children's Ministry.

Hometown: Gary, Indiana is where I am originally from but I did a lot of growing up in Brookfield, WI
Favorite TV Show: None. Really...none
Favorite Book: I really like reading Flying magazine 
People Who Have Influenced You The Most: Dad, good leaders at work, other godly men
Favorite Movie: The Hunt For Red October 
How do you like to spend your free time? Lately, I have found more joy riding my Harley. Just spending time with my wife Carol lifts my heart.
Hobbies: Harley riding, watching movies with Carol, aviation
What would you like to see God do in the American Church? Unite the brethren in denominations everywhere in a large movement of prayer with the result of seeing millions of Muslims turn to Christ throughout the world.
Spiritual Gift: Giving and Wisdom 

David Attebery
Elder - Email

David and Olga have been members of LPCC since January of 2005 after moving to Phoenix during the summer of 2004.  David came to know the Lord at age forty during an alter call at a Christian chuch in Las Vegas, NV after being invited to attend the church by Olga.  They have journeyed together and served the Lord while David was working on construction projects in the U.S. and overseas.  Both have enjoyed serving LPCC by getting involved with men's and women's ministries. David also leads the set-up ministry.

Hometown: Kingman, AZ
Favorite TV Show: The O'Reilly Factor
Favorite Book: Bible, Ghost Soldiers;Hampton Sides, Going Rogue; Sarah Palin
People Who Have Influenced You The Most: My Dad, my three uncles, Olga
Favorite Movie: Gone WIth the WInd
How do you like to spend your free time? I enjoy sharing time with Olga and getting to know people.
Hobbies: Thinking, mechanical drawing, riding my Harley, working on projects around the house and resting in the peace of Christ.
What would you like to see God do in the American Church?I am excited to see what God is doing right now and I trust that He is in total control. I would like to see more people trust Him completely.
Spiritual Gift: Organization

Ross Bentley
Elder - Email

Ross and Tracey have been serving together as youth leaders since the mid 1980's, serving on staff with Campus Crusade together, and then to being part of the core team of four couples who started this church. They have a wealth of church planting experience, adding much wisdom, skill and especially humor to the team! They also bring a heart for true, expressive, authentic worship, which has greatly benefited our church. They have three kids and are very involved in the community. Ross is a software engineer and Tracey is an interior designer.

Hometown: Mattydale, NY
Favorite TV shows: The Dick Van Dyke Show, Lost (Season 1), 24 (First 4 seasons), Heroes, Newhart, The Wallace and Ladmo Show
Favorite Books: The Singer Trilogy by Calvin Miller
Person Who Has Influenced You The Most: My Dad
Favorite Movies: 12 Angry Men, The Shawshank Redemption, Braveheart
Stranded on a desert island with three cd�s � which would they be? Abbey Road (The Beatles), Complete Prestige Recordings (John Coltrane), The Voice of Mozart
How do you like to spend your free time? Laughing with friends, playing music, enjoying Creation, sports
Hobbies: Music
What are you passionate about? Grace and Truth, Worshiping God
What would you like to see God do in the American Church? Create such a holy passion within us for Him that those around us are compelled to ask, �What must I do to be saved?�
Spiritual Gift: Exhortation and Leadership

Dhondi Wiegel
Student Ministries Pastor - Email

Dhondi and his wife Lariate have both had very successful ministries with high school students when John and Caryn  Amandola recruited Dhondi to join them in helping to start LPCC as our youth pastor. Dhondi then recruited Lariate by giving her a ring! Dhondi works part time as a network administrator and gives the rest of his time to LPCC and leading an on campus ministry. Lariate enjoys being a mom and ministry partner to Dhondi.

Hometown: I was too transient to have a hometown!: Chicago; San Francisco; Kamwele, Kenya; Brussels, Belgium; Seattle, WA; Phoenix, AZ
Favorite TV Shows: Heroes, House
Favorite Books: The Bible, Radical Reformission, Mark Driscoll
Person Who Has Influenced You The Most: My Dad
Stranded on a desert island with three cd�s � which would they be? Mario Frangoulis, Rock 'n Roll Worship Circus, Coldplay
How do you like to spend your free time? Tinkering with computers, looking up latest technology on Internet
Hobbies: Anything computer
What would you like to see God do in the American Church? I'd like to see the American Church have more compassion and sacrifice more for the sake of the poor of our nation and of the world.
Spiritual Gift: Exhortation

Lois Rafeedie
Administrative Assistant - Email

Hometown: Born in Chicago, IL, raised in Phoenix, AZ
Favorite TV Show: Medical Mysteries
Favorite Books: Loving God With All Your Mind, by Elizabeth George, Words that Hurt, Words that Heal, Carole Mayhall
Person Who Has Influenced Me The Most: My mom
How do you like to spend your free time? With my two grandsons, playing hide and go seek and reading stories
Hobbies: Finishing college at age 50.
What would you like to see God change in the American church?  More reverence and dependence on God and more authenticity with one another.
Spiritual Gift: Teaching, Mercy