John Barber , Interim Director of Ministries
John Barber, a native of North Carolina, began at CEFC as a consultant in November, 2009. After graduating from Columbia International University, graduate studies at East Carolina University, and a year-long youth-pastorate in Greensboro, NC, he pursued a 30+ year business career. This career included regional and state sales management,
development work for various corporations and for CIU, and consulting work for several American and European energy companies. As a layman and elder in the Presbyterian Church in America (Central Carolina Presbytery), he helped various churches revitalize their men’s ministries, small group ministries, and assimilation efforts. He has served on various Boards for non‑profits, and recently completed courses with the Christian Counseling Education Foundation. He and his wife Sonia have 5 children.

Matt Carter, Director of Youth and Outreach
Matt Carter grew up in the rural hills of northwestern Pennsylvania with the Allegheny National Forest as a back yard. He completed his Master of Divinity, a title he still finds presumptuous, at Biblical Theological Seminary in Hatfield, PA in 2000. He received his B.S. in Landscape Architecture from the Pennsylvania State University in 1990. He brings with him experience in ministering to youth in several Church and parachurch contexts, and through involvement with a local prison ministry. He has also been involved in training and facilitating outreach both locally and in Eastern Europe having taught evangelism at Zaporozyhe Bible College in southern Ukraine. He is a board member of International Training Ministry. Matt spent twenty-four years in the landscape and construction fields. Thirteen of those years he worked as a sole proprietor designing and installing residential landscape and hardscape features, and home additions. He and his wife, Cindy have three sons and one daughter.

John Bell , Facilities Manager
John serves a dual function as a facility manager and an IT support person.