An ELCA Congregation

Kathy Nowak
Parish Administrator

Kathy is the “go-to” person at Prince of Peace. She is responsible for building use, maintaining the calendar for the congregation, maintaining the membership database, answering everybody’s numerous and varied questions, and handling the many other issues that may crop up at any time. A graduate of Pace University with a background in managerial accounting, Kathy has been in her position since 2000. She and her husband, Greg, and their sons have been members since 1987.

Kathy is invaluable to Prince of Peace, in large part through working with the ministry team leaders and members of the congregation in planning and implementing the activities of the church. She does so always graciously and with a smile and a ready desire to be of help.

Dedicated to Prince of Peace outside her work schedule, Kathy is also a member of the Worship and Music Team and Communications Team. Of her involvement at the church Kathy says, “I most enjoy working with all the people of this congregation – getting to know them and being able to help accomplish the mission of Prince of Peace.”

Christin Barnhardt
Minister of Music

Christin Barnhardt earned her Masters Degree in Sacred Music and Piano Performance & Pedagogy at Westminster Choir College of Rider University where she studied piano with Phyllis Lehrer and Jim Goldsworthy and conducting with
Sun Min Lee,
Steve Pilkington, Andrew Megill, and Joe Miller.

Christin grew up in NC where she attended Salem College in her hometown of Winston-Salem.  She then served as an AmeriCorps Member in Paterson, NJ, for a year before beginning her studies at Westminster. While at Westminster, Christin taught at the Westminster Conservatory and worked on the Nightwatch staff at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC.  Currently she teaches piano privately and is the assistant conductor for the New Jersey Chamber Singers.

Victoria Chow
Church Musician

Victoria Chow is a senior at Westminster Choir College studying Piano Performance and Pedagogy. She is from Alberta, Canada, and has had extensive experience as pianist, accompanist, piano teacher, and worship team leader.

Student Seminarians and Music Intern
at Prince of Peace Church

Julie Lillis, Seminarian

From Traverse City, Michigan, Julie Lillis graduated St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, and majored in music and ancient Greek. She is now in her final M. Div. year at Princeton Theological Seminary and expects to stay for an additional year of specialized study. Thereafter she will enroll in a Ph.D. program before she enters teaching at a College level in the areas of Religion, Bible, Early Christianities and Feminist Theology. This year, at Prince of Peace, she will be leading adult discussion groups. With her husband she enjoys many activites such as ice skating, ballroom dancing, devotional writing and others.

Ann Rosendale, seminarian

She is now in the final year of her Master of Divinity degree and a Master of Arts in Youth Ministry at the Princeton Theological Seminary - two years ago she was our student seminarian, and then spent one year at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN.

First from Ohio and then Minnesota, she received her college degree from Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD, during which she participated in both the campus ministry and as a youth ministry intern at a local church. She has worked in Lutheran Bible Camps in both Minnesota and Montana for at least 5 summers. After graduation in May 2008 from Princeton Theological Seminary, she plans to spend a year as a full-time intern in an ELCA congregation, and then enter the ministry as an ordained pastor.