Staff
Lead Pastors
Dave Schmelzer, Lead Pastor
Email: dave@bostonvineyard.org
Dave Schmelzer is the lead pastor at the Vineyard Christian Fellowship—Greater Boston. He and his wife, Grace, have five children: Benjamin (born in 1996), Nicholas (1998), Patrick (2001), Claire (2003), and Elizabeth (2005). Before participating in the founding of the Greater Boston Vineyard, Dave worked as a playwright and saw… Read More
Grace Schmelzer, Co-Lead Pastor
Email: grace@bostonvineyard.org
Grace grew up in Houston with her three brothers and later went to college at Stanford in California, where her campus fellowship provided a great context to begin unpacking what it might mean to "follow Jesus." About that time, she was also delighted to discover Vineyard churches… Read More
Department Heads
Danny Tao
Associate Pastor, Director of Community Development, Executive Director of Vineyard Community Offerings
Compassion, Justice, and Reconciliation Ministries, Community Liaison
Val Snekvik
Associate Pastor
Families Ministries: Kids' Church, Youth, Marriage, and Families
(Val is currently on leave.)
Pastoral Staff
Kristina Kaiser
Assistant Pastor
Vineyard Cares, Operations, Preaching, International Initiatives, Community Development
Marianne Snekvik
Associate Pastor
Prayer Ministry, Healing Rooms, Mom to Mom
Vineyard Community Offerings Staff
Evadne Cokeh
Director of Youth and Empowerment Initiatives
Youth, Empowerment Initiatives
Stephanie Acker
Director of Community Building Initiatives
Community Building, Local Neighborhood Initiatives & Outreach, Program Coordination
Operations & Administrative Staff
Angelica Brown
Staff Accountant
Accounting and Bookkeeping, Business Administration
Dominic Kaiser
Director of Technology and Facilities
Technology, Facilities
Joanne Turner
Assistant to the Executive Pastor
Business Administration, Human Resources, Donations
Former Staff
Charles Park: charles@rivernyc.org
Charles and his wife, Caroline, left the Greater Boston Vineyard in 2004 to lead a team of people to plant The River in New York City.
