Stefanie first began working with youth at Creekside nearly ten years ago – and has lived to tell about it. When she’s not hanging around teenagers, she can be found researching the brain in a neuroscience lab in San Francisco, rooting on the Oakland A’s or Cal Bears (depending on the season), or occasionally - though not nearly often enough - traveling to various exotic ports like New Zealand and Hong Kong.

Stefanie could regale you with stories about the crazier aspects of youth ministry (ask her sometime about her first Mexicali missions trip experience) she would rather tell you about the many students whose lives have been changed by the power and love of Jesus Christ.

Brad Bowers

Monica is a native Bay Area Girl and can be best described as a loving, and energetic person. She has been attending Creekside for the past 10 years and has been working with the youth for the past 4 years. She is currently working with the very same youth group where she met her husband of 5 years; Danny Angell.

Monica and Danny live in San Leandro with their two very cute dogs, Gus and Woodie. She enjoys hanging out with the youth and staff and values the many friendships God has blessed her with. She also enjoys traveling (especially to Europe), listening to music, dancing and hanging out with friends and family. During the day Monica is a Sales Person for a super cool email marketing company!

Danny Angell

Julie Nicholas

 

Rod Nicholas

 

 

 

Yvonne has worked with young people for over 25 years. She is totally multi-ethnic. She is BLACK, JEWISH, NATIVE AMERICAN, & IRISH. Yvonne started attending Creekside about five years ago and soon after started working with the High Schoolers. She took her first trip to Mexico, four years ago. Imagine her surprise when she got there and needed to use the ladies room. No such thing! She soon learned what the word BANOS meant.

Yvonne is the (JACKIE OF ALL TRADES) at the church and has had that position for the past four years... She works with the Creekside staff assisting them in the office, and does a bit of counseling on the side after which she goes down to HS room and gives and gets big HUGS! If you want to know more about Yvonne JUST ASK she wants to meet you.

Lyndsey is the newest kid on the block in the Middle School Ministry, she's been hanging around for about seven months. She brings to the table an awesome bowling stroke, extensive useless movie trivia, a fine tattoo collection, and some funky fresh dance moves. The experience and wisdom she gained as a pistol packin' saloon girl in a wild west comedy stunt show have not yet come in handy at Catalyst but she remains hopeful.

Lyndsey thanks God every day for her little brother, and also that He invented chili-cheese Fritos. She is excited to be a part of this amazing team, and loves hanging out with her new Middle School friends.

John Olson

 

John Has been working with middle school students for a couple years. He is our resident Game Master, aptly titled "Game Master John". John has a Ph.D. in biochemistry from UW-Madison and did a postdoctoral in computational chemistry at U.C.S.F. He just retired from being a director at a drug design software company and is now writing novels and screenplays full-time. Check out John's first book, Oxygen, it won a Christy award for excellence in fiction!

All you middle schoolers out there be on your toes, you never know what kind of game will happen next time at Catalyst.

Simone Moore

Simone is a classically trained musician. She met her husband Richard while studying to be an opera singer at the University of South Carolina. Simone is a native of Germany born and raised as a missionary kid in the Micronesian Islands in the South Pacific. Simone has been involved in Student Ministry in Germany for many years where she toured with a worship band playing at all types of youth conferences.

Simone has a heart for middle school girls and has a discipleship girls group on Wednesdays at her house. Simone and Richard are proud new parents of a baby girl born in April of 2006.