N3C Staff
Lead Pastor
Pastor John Young
Pastor John has been in full time ministry for the past twenty years. He has served as a youth pastor, associate/music pastor and now as lead pastor. John and his wife Bette spent seven years in missions and international youth evangelism, two of which they lived in Moscow Russia involved with planting churches and coordinating Pastors’ conferences.
The Youngs spent several years in Florida working with OneHope. John served as the Director of Communications and Strategic Relations, working closely with music bands in which he take on overseas ministry tours partnering with OneHope ministries around the world.
The Youngs lived in the Nashville TN area for 7 years working with youth in crisis and developing an innovative training program for young adults. Pastor John also was involved in ministry development working with different Christian festivals and bands to develop outreach and follow up. Just before coming to N3C he was working with Global Tribe’s REACH events in partnership with the newsboys. John and Bette have a daughter Emma, their first, who was born to them after eighteen years of marriage.
Bette has worked with OneHope for the past 10 years as assistant to the President and CEO. One Hope is an international children’s and youth evangelistic organization who distributes the gospel all over the world.
Amy Minnich
Assistant Pastor/Youth Director
Amy has always been passionate about discipling and mentoring young people. While attending Ursinus College pursuing a BA in Philosophy and Religion, she found herself very involved in Intervarsity, leading small groups, one-on-one mentoring, and serving on the leadership team. She also had her first experience with short-term missions.
Upon graduation in 1997, she started her ten-year missionary journey in Germany and then teamed up with OneHope’s internship program and began to lead teams to Southern Africa, helping to train and equip local churches in how to effective school assembly programs. Eventually she moved to South Africa to help pioneer a OneHope base. In 2005, she was asked to join the faculty of Cape Theological Seminary, where she taught first year students and was registrar for the Master’s program.
In 2007, Amy moved back to NJ and started to attend N3C. Her recent new role as assistant pastor/youth director will focus on developing programs that will help build, encourage, and foster spiritual growth in the lives of young people in the surrounding communities. Her combined leadership, teaching, and administrative gifts will be an asset to serving N3C’s existing ministries while helping to launch new church, community and youth-oriented programs.
Church Administration
Jill, Ken, Joanna & Allyson Short
Jill has been a part of N3C since it’s very beginning and had the opportunity to serve as the youth leader for several years in the early 1990′s. She has also been involved with various short-term mission projects and helped to facilitate the ministries to the children and teens. Jill has been employed as the church administrator for several years and currently helps with the KIDMO ministry. Originally from Haddon Heights, Jill now lives in Glassboro with her husband of 14 years, Ken and their two daughters, Joanna and Allyson.
