Meet Our Leaders

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.

Dave Bjorlin

PASTOR OF WORSHIP + CREATIVE ARTS

David Bjorlin has been leading worship at ResCov since 2009. He is passionate about helping people indwell the story of God through the church’s liturgy. He is also the Assistant Professor of Worship at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago.

Kyle Mecher

PASTOR OF CHILDREN'S FORMATION

Kyle Mecher joined the pastoral team in Fall 2015, and has been attending ResCov since 2011 when he returned to his hometown of Chicago to attend Seminary. Through play, conversation, and experiential learning, he strives to help children theologize together and imagine how God’s story of love has real impact in their lives.

Emily Hunt

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF
CHILDREN'S FORMATION +
OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR

Emily Hunt has been with ResCov for two and a half years and works with Pastor Kyle and our ResCov Kids! She is in graduate school for elementary education at North Park University. She is passionate about raising our kids to be kind people who love their neighbors. Emily also serves as the church office administrator, handling all types of tasks including supporting our pastoral team.

 

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.

Connect with us!

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.