Leadership
Our Invasion leadership is great the best Jr. High Leaders around. We are led by our Youth Pastor Rocky. Followed by the Geisers who have the most experience with working in Youth Ministry. Then the Ciotta clan who have been helping with Jr. High for two years now. You can look below and read about each on of our leaders.
Dave “Rocky” Haney – Youth Pastor
Check out Rocky’s Personal Page
Cheryl Geiser
Cheryl is married to fellow youth leader Kevin Geiser and has 2 daughters, Leah who is a high school student and Lauren who graduated from college in 2006 and lives in Seattle, Washington. I was raised in a Jewish family, went to after-school Hebrew School, and took two years of Hebrew in high school and two years in college. I went to college at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland and graduated with a BA in Natural Sciences/Public Health. I was married to a man in the Air Force soon after college, gave birth to Lauren about two years later and then moved to Okinawa, Japan where we lived for about a year and a half until my husband decided that he didn’t want to be married to me anymore, so Lauren and I came back to live with my parents in New Jersey. I met Kevin, who was good friends with my parents and my sister, we dated for about a year, got engaged and then got married in December of 1990. I started working for my present employer, Ethicon in Somerville, NJ in 1991 and then Kevin and I we were blessed with the birth of Leah in 1993. I became a child of Christ as a result of God using Kevin and his parents living the Word to bring me into the church family. I have been active in the church over the years by being in a church choir, being a Sunday School teacher, and being a youth leader along with my husband at Grace since 1997. Kevin and I love working with the youth, especially junior highers – they are soooo awesome. One of my passions is Christian Music of all kinds (rock, rap, hip hop, worship, emo, pop, etc.) and using it to bring others to know the Lord. My friend Susan Scherer and I are members of the Gospel Music Association and have been attending Gospel Music Week for the past 5 years. We both feel that God wants us to organize and promote Christian music events in our community to bring the Word through music to the lost. We are hoping to have our first event early in 2008.
Kevin Geiser
He attended Somerset County Community College and Warren County Community College. He is the Facility Security Officer for Curtiss-Wright Corp. His father is with the Lord and his mother continues Christ’s service here on Earth. He has one brother and a sister who have not been transformed by the Holy Spirit yet. Please pray for them. None of that defines him. More to the point of interest, Kevin and his wife have been serving the youth at Grace Fellowship for on or about ten years; long enough to see some of the kids get married! They have photographic proof for much of the time. He has been blessed watching the youth enjoy time with one another having good clean fun, but more importantly he has seen these young adults grow in Faith and understanding of who their Creator is.
Lynn Ciotta
Lynn Ciotta has been part of the Junior High Youth Ministry for two years, and enjoys spending time with the girls and helping them understand the importance of their Christian walk. Her greatest joy is being a mom to her four children: Rob (and his wife Jamie), Dan (and his wife Sarah), Jon and Abby. She now has a new joy: her first grandchild Cami (born to Dan and Sarah in September). Mrs. Ciotta currently serves as the Communications Coordinator for Plumstead Christian School in Bucks County, PA (where Jon and Abby attend). She is in charge of several major fundraising events for the school, as well as managing publication of two patron and alumni newsletters. She was a church secretary, homeschooled for seven years, and was a computer programmer and database administrator with a number of companies, including AT&T. Mrs. Ciotta graduated from Middlesex County College in Edison, NJ and earned a certificate in computer programming from Taylor Business Institute.
Paul Ciotta
This is Paul Ciotta’s third year of working with Grace Fellowship Youth Ministries. He has been actively involved in the Junior High Youth, as well as helping out with Senior High. Mr. Ciotta loves spending time with his family, especially his wife (also a Youth Leader), their four children, and now a grandchild. He is an avid baseball fan (New York Yankees), enjoys doing manageable homeowner projects, and learning more about God through his Word. He has served Grace Fellowship in various roles, and is currently an Elder and Board Secretary. Earning his bachelors degree in Communications from Seton Hall University in South Orange, NJ, Mr. Ciotta has worked in the corporate communications public relations, broadcasting and marketing for 30 years. He is currently a Masters of Divinity candidate at Liberty Theological Seminary in Lynchburg, VA.
