Our Team

Reverend Lisa VanLonkhuyzen

Lisa felt the call to attend Western Theological Seminary after several years in professional roles including business analysis, banking, and directing worship. She graduated from seminary in the spring of 2024. Covenant Community Church had the distinct honor of hiring Lisa as our new pastor in November 2024, when we welcomed both Pastor Lisa and her husband Bob VanLonkhuyzen to the Muskegon and Muskegon Heights communities.

In seminary, Lisa focused much of her study on disability theology with a primary focus on how theology intersects with mental health and trauma. She enjoys reading, writing, baking, doing jigsaw puzzles, and many other hobbies too. Pastor Lisa is also an accomplished musician, and her passion for piano, guitar, and singing is evident not just on Sunday mornings!

Pastor Lisa grew up in the Chicago area but has lived in several different areas of the country, including Houston (which is why you’ll hear her throw in a “ya’ll” pretty regularly!) She and Bob moved to Muskegon to serve at Covenant and where Bob works from home in a technology role.

Pastor Lisa has a gentle and welcoming heart for folks from all walks of life. Her leadership and pastoral care is grounded in love and the gospel of Jesus Christ. She possesses a spirit of wonder, play, empathy, kindness, and openness. Lisa’s sermons and interactions consistently demonstrate the fruit of years of study, critical and compassionate thinking, and faithful service to Christ’s church.

We are so excited to call both Lisa and Bob beloved members of the Covenant family!

Rose Wheeler, Office Administrator

Rose joined Covenant as our Office Administrator in January of 2013. Rose has served as an office manager for area churches since 1975. She served Central Lutheran Church in Muskegon from 1975-97, and St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church from 1998-2012. Rose is a gracious and faithful presence here in our office!

Cindy Moore, Music Director

Singing on Sundays is what our Music Director, Cindy Moore, has been doing since a small child at Mt. Olive Baptist Church. Her passion for singing continued throughout school, culminating in a Music major at Central Michigan University, on to Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, then choral director at Whitehall High School, and now as choral director at Muskegon High School. Cindy has been the Music Director at Covenant Church since 2017 and comments: “I’ve truly experienced genuine servanthood – “…in the city as one who serves.” Cindy lives with her husband Kim and children Marcus and Kiara.