Alicia Reese
SENIOR PASTOR
Alicia Reese joined the ResCov Pastoral Team in 2024. She has a background in the arts and a heart for connection, outreach, and God’s restorative justice. Alongside pastoring, Alicia also teaches spiritual formation using improvisation and storytelling, teaching often in prisons here in Illinois through North Park’s School of Restorative Arts and other educational programs. She is passionate about helping people live God’s story of hope and transformation for God’s glory and neighbor’s good.
Emily Hunt
Our Leadership Team
At ResCov, we operate on a Leadership Team model of governance. This model intends to be responsive and agile, empowering a small group of lay leaders to make decisions on a variety of routine matters related to the day-to-day operations of the church. Our hope is not that the leadership team will simply manage things from the top-down. While they do act as trustees of the church’s resources, their most important role is to inspire and excite growth from the entire community in our worship, discipleship, mission, and community. The members of the Leadership Team are elected to terms with a set number of years, and are affirmed in these positions by the entire membership of the church. Please feel free to call upon any of these individuals with questions, ideas, suggestions, or concerns.
Our current Leadership Team includes: Carissa Gomez, (chair, email [email protected]), Alex Macias (vice chair), Anne Wong (financial officer), Alli Halvorsen (secretary), Peter Dinges, John Robinson, Jenny Neilsson, Beth Miller, and Alicia Reese, ex officio.
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We’d love to meet you! If you’d like to connect with one of our pastors or have a question our Leadership Team, please reach out.