Meet our Leaders

Get to know our church leaders.


Louis & JoJo Guarneri

Pastor & Pastor's Wife

Our LORD led our pastor, with the help of Somerset Bible Baptist Church (Pastor Bryan Miller) to organize some believers in May 2006 to start a church in Princeton NJ at the age of 50 in the Clarion hotel on Route 1. Then the LORD enabled us to charter a church with 35 members in November of 2006. Around that time, Mrs. Katherine Maund at age 92 gave the church two acres of property with a Cape Cod house in the heart of Princeton next to the Governor's Mansion to serve as a parsonage. After Mrs. Maund went to heaven, that property was sold for $680,000 and a parsonage was purchased for $280,000 in Pennington with the remainder serving as a down payment for our first church building on Whitehead Road in Lawrence. We started meeting at 680 Whitehead in September 2015.


Pastor grew up in a Catholic home and was exposed to the Gospel and got saved, of all places, at Columbia University. Mrs. JoJo got saved shortly thereafter. After marriage, they moved to Illinois (job transfer) and were grounded in 'the faith once delivered to the saints' in Jacksosnville, Ill. Under Pastor Lane Haddock. 3.5 years later, the LORD moved them back to New Jersey where they served 23 years under Pastor Miller at SBBC.


Pastor is super excited about the potential of our church to reach Mercer County and beyond with the pure Gospel of Jesus Christ. That excitement is totally based on the willingness and ability of the LORD to do His amazing work through unworthy sinners. We are so blessed!

Dr. Paul Fedena

Staff Evangelist & Deacon

Dr. Fedena has been ministering the Gospel of our Saviour for 50 years. Out of those 50 years Brother Fedena has been pastoring for 43 years. He has pastored in New York, Maryland and for 31 years pastored the Faith Baptist Church in Fairless Hills, PA, northeast of Philadelphia. Be sure to see Brother Fedena's popular website here.

Ric Osterhoudt

Deacon

 Brother Ric and his family have been with us since we began in 2006. Besides being a prayer warrior, he has faithfully brought scores and scores of people to church in the last 15 years. He also provides wise counsel to the pastor and church when critical decisions need to be made.

Joy Osterhoudt

Church Clerk

Mrs. Joy maintains our important documents, records of membership, business meetings, and decisions. She also coordinates Special Music.

Ilir Pellumbi

Director of Maintenance

Brother Ilir has upgraded our entire audio visual and livestreaming service. He runs the entire system every service and also heads up property maintenance and improvement projects.

Luwai Wheager

Head Usher

Brother Luwai teaches the Teen Sunday School class and is our Financial Secretary managing all receipts to the church. He also plays a key leadership role with the ushers.

Lauren Pellumbi

Jr. Church

Mrs. Lauren runs an exciting Jr. Church program, helps run the nursery, and prepares the weekly bulletin and all the service slides.

Christina Candelario

Children's Sunday School Teacher

Ezekiel Esau

Van Driver

JoJo Guarneri

Church Secretary & Nursery Director

Mrs. JoJo does all the church accounting, leads the Nursery ministry and performs a host of Secretarial functions for the Church.

Dukens Antoine

Head Usher

Brother Dukens is our Head Usher coordinating greeting, seating, offerings and so much more to facilitate orderly meetings of God's people.

David Anderson

Nursing Home Ministry

Brother Dave leads out Nursing Home ministry and is currently ministering at Clover Meadows Nursing home in Lawrence on alternate Saturdays. Dave also manages our Fire Protection and AED programs.

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