Pastor Steve Blayer

Pastor Steve Blayer spent his childhood on the streets of New York City, and was rescued by the Lord from a destructive lifestyle in early 1989, largely through the ministry of his future wife, Audrea. They were married two years later, and have since added six children to their household -- Benjamin , Nadia , Makailah , Aaron, Anya, and Taiah . Steve and Audrea served the Lord in the Boston area through the 1990’s, under Philip Cappuccio at the Boston Tabernacle as deacons and house church leaders. In 2000, the Lord moved the Blayers to PA, where Steve served as the Family Pastor at Christ Community Church in Camp Hill under Dave Hess.

After seven years, Steve was called and commissioned to pastor Hillside Christian Fellowship, a church plant of CCC. His ministry passion is to help every son and daughter of God rise up to their full potential in Christ, boldly demonstrate that the Kingdom of God has now come wherever they are sent by the Lord, and live a life of increasing zeal for God and His Kingdom.

James Hauptman

Pastor James had the privilege of growing up in a loving home that truly nurtured his faith in the Lord. His own salvation experience came when he was merely 4 years old but it wasn’t until his late teens when he learned of and experienced the baptism of the Holy Spirit. After that he followed the Lord’s prompting to get trained for ministry and enrolled at Zion Bible College (currently located in Haverhill, MA). While there he met his wife Abbie and they both traveled throughout New England on the college’s music ministry team. Both were involved in leadership in local churches, in the dormitories and on worship teams. After graduation, James was on staff in the Dean’s office until they moved to Millersburg in the fall of 2009. Recently, James and Abbie are experiencing the joy of parenting as their first child was born in July of 2010.

James is the Associate Pastor here at Hillside. He primarily spends his time within the youth ministry as well as church administration. James is passionate about seeing people who are far from God become connected with His purposes for their lives.

Amber Shultz

Amber serves Hillside’s family as the Ministry Assistant. She is married to Kris Shultz and has two boys, Tyler and Logan. Amber grew up in the church but found her new Life in Christ in 1998. She and her family attend Hillside since July 2011.

Connecting people to Christ through everyday practical and personal experiences is where her ministry lies. She also enjoys helping in the Children’s Ministry.

Ruth Boyer

Ruth is the church bookkeeper.  She’s married to David Boyer and has two children, Amber and Aaron. She gave her life to the Lord in 1999 and has been attending church at Hillside since 2003.

She began working as the church Ministry Assistant in August of 2007. She began doing the bookkeeping since January of 2008 as part of the M.A. duties.  She transitioned from the M.A. position to the bookkeeping position in February of 2012.  She loves to teach the word of God to children and has served as a teacher to the toddlers and preschoolers since 2005.  In 2011, she became the class coordinator for Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University because she loves to encourage others with the message of hope for their personal finances.

Her pastimes include playing games with her children, reading, exercising and playing beach volleyball.

Marisela Lawson

Marisela is one of the Children's Ministry Directors. She has been married to Robert for 18 awesome years and has five wonderful children, Anneliese, Arianna, Calen, Evana, and newborn Nolan. She graduated from college with a teaching degree and taught for a few years before choosing to be at home with her children and is now in her 9th year of homeschooling.

Marisela has a passion to see families restored through the power of Jesus and His love--to see parents enjoy the journey of parenting and freely love their children, and in turn, see children used mightily by the LORD for His purposes. The LORD desires to see our children teach, prophesy and heal in His name and walking in their full destiny even now as children! Marisela is honored to be used by the LORD in the lives of children and their families to see this happen.

Todd Gearhart

Todd is the worship leader at Hillside Christian Fellowship. He lives in Dauphin with his wife Hannah, son Jadon, two cats and a dog. Todd loves to see people fully enter into worship to God, and desires to be a part in redeeming the arts for Jesus! Besides leading worship, he also enjoys photography.

Dale Bonawitz

Dale has served as the church Custodian for the past 7 years. He and his wife Mary Alice have been married for 33 years. Dale has three children - Rick, Dennis and Tina as well as three stepdaughters - Melissa, Angela and Christine. Dale works very diligently to honor God by keeping the facilities at their best.