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• Connect

  This is our starting point. This is where the journey begins. If you’re new in any sense; new to the faith, new to the area, trying something new or pursuing God for the first time, come connect and attend a Sunday service where KidsQuest, Student Ministries, and College Age Ministries celebrate God as one and desire for Him to transform us.

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• Belong

  We are constantly hearing, “I attend the weekend services, but I want to go deeper in my relationships.” We want you to be more than a face in the crowd. We desire you to become known and make others known while you continue to grow in your relationship with God. In Belonging you will go deeper in your relationship with God and others by way of Community Groups, Membership and Wednesday Night Connect classes.

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• Serve

  Our hope is that you move beyond being a member, and become an "owner". Community Owners are passionate transformed people sharing the gospel by owning the call to be more than a consumer or follower, but an owner of Community church, the city in which we live, our nation and the world.

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Derek DaPena

Derek DaPena, Group Life Pastor, 920.593.3473
family info: my co-pilot and wife Kiley and two boys Braxton and Kasen.

How did you come to Community?
Had troy as a professor in grad school in 2005. Flew to a conference at community in 2007.  Then flew back 3 years and 2300 miles later to join staff. Now I drive 2 miles up Cardinal Lane.

What is your role at Community?
Group life, equipping, teaching, getting people to celebrate life together.

What is the best part about your role?
Experiencing transformation and seeing people succeed beyond what they could imagine.

Fun Stuff

If you were a color, what color would you be?  Why?
Clear…it’s a color.

What do you count as the greatest invention of the last 100 years?
Free energy and secondly the flux capacitor.

What is your favorite place on the earth?
If I tell you, it may become your favorite too.  If you really want it: 33.091227, -117.314984.

What makes you laugh?
The conversations that come up while surfing.

What makes you cry?
Disneyland.

If you could be on any reality TV show, what would it be?
Ace of Cakes. I’m a cake baking and decorating hobbyist for my kids and friends.

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