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Pastors
 Pastor Douglas Elsey
Senior Pastor
Pastor Douglas Elsey joined the New Haven Seventh-day Adventist Church as the Senior Pastor in January of 2009.
Pastor Elsey graduated from Newbold College in England with a Bachelor of Arts in Theology in 1991. After coming to the United States to marry his wife Sherri, whom he met while she was studying at Newbold, he became the Youth Pastor at the Redlands, California, SDA Church in 1992. He and Sherri have three children: Marcus, Lyndsey, and Kaleigh.
Pastor Elsey earned his M.Div degree at Andrews University in 1997 and returned to the Redlands Church for another three years before being called to be the senior pastor at the Yucaipa (California) Adventist Church in 2000. From there, he was called to be the pastor of the Mt. Ellis Adventist Church in 2005. A member of his youth group from the Redlands congregation, Luke Self, served as his associate pastor. Beginning in 2005 Pastor Elsey also began serving as chaplain for Mt. Ellis Academy in Bozeman, Montana. He continued in these duties until his call to New Haven SDA Church.
 Pastor Chanda M. Nunes
Associate Pastor
Pastor Chanda M. Nunes was born in the Great White North, but never had the privilege to live in an igloo, ride a dog sled to school, or end every sentence with "eh?"
Raised in the multicultural metropolis of Toronto, Pastor Chanda is number 2 of 4, and loves her brothers dearly, (even although she had to wear her older brother’s hand-me-downsJ). Pastor Chanda recognized her call to ministry at the age of 9, and credits many church leaders who acknowledged this—and took a risk on her as a young person, by assigning her various leadership roles. As a result, she has grown a passion for preaching, youth ministries, outreach, missions, evangelism, and leading Praise & Worship.
Pastor Chanda is a graduate of Canadian University College(Religious Studies, minor Biblical Languages), Andrews University Theological Seminary (Master of Divinity), and is currently working on a PhD in Organizational Leadership. Pastor Chanda also holds associate degrees in Private Investigation & Paralegalling.
In her free time, this former undercover private investigator, enjoys emailing, “facebooking”, chatting it up on the phone with friends, cooking, interior decorating, traveling, and spending time with her black gold fish—“Toto”. Since arriving in Kansas, Pastor Chanda has been in search of the perfect ruby red slippers…well high heels, size 6. Pastor Chanda's blog can be found on the Mid-America Union blog Web site. Check it out.
 Pastor Luke Self
Associate Pastor, Youth
Pastor Luke Self joined the New Haven Seventh-day Adventist Church in August of 2010. Before completing his bachelor’s degree at Southern Adventist University (SAU), he took a year off to teach seventh grade at Palau Mission Academy in the beautiful Republic of Palau.
After graduating from SAU in 2004 with a B.A. in Religious Education, he moved to Taipei, Taiwan, where he taught Bible classes at Taipei Adventist Preparatory Academy. After two years in Taiwan, Luke returned to the United States, where he served as Associate Chaplain/Bible Teacher at Mount Ellis Academy in Bozeman, MT. It was there that he met his beautiful wife, Keri, who was the academy’s Head Dean of Girls at the time.
In the summer of 2008, Luke went back to school, and in the summer of 2010 graduated with a Master of Divinity degree from the SDA Theological Seminary at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, MI.
Luke’s passion has, is, and always will be ministering to young people. He is excited to see how God will use the young people at New Haven to impact the Kansas City area for His Kingdom. Luke and Keri currently have one son, Aeden.
Associate Pastor
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