Pastor Joel has served Community Covenant since autumn, 1999. Originally from Michigan, Joel graduated from Hope College (BA) and The Divinity School, the University of Chicago, (MDiv) studied for ordination at North Park Seminary, and Harvard Divnity School (ThM). He previously served Cuyler (Resurrection) Covenant (Chicago) as interim pastor, and Redeemer Covenant (Caledonia, MI) as youth pastor. Joel has a passionate interest for the intersection of faith and culture and loves films, music and art. He relishes his eccumenical work, on behalf of the Evangelical Covenant denomination, with the Massachusetts Council of Churches, and interfaith work with the Peabody Clergy and Ministerial Association. Married to Janine Post, a nurse practioner, they have five children:  Micah, Evangeline, Sophia, Magdalena, and Mattias. Joel runs regularly and plays right wing on an adult ice hockey team. A passionate contemporary music fan, Joel listens actively and attends concerts regularly. A reader, he reads broadly from magazines and journals to novels to theology. Joel's call to faithful, vocational life is evident in his preaching and teaching.

After graduating from college in 1958, I went to seminary fully intending to become a parish minister. While in seminary I became captivated by the world of medicine and several years later started medical school fully intending to become a family doctor. While working as an emergency room physician in the Boston area I very accidentally became involved with the ABC affiliate, WCVB TV - which led to my joining ABC News full time in 1984. During all our time in Boston, since 1971, we have been members of Community Covenant Church in West Peabody. It is our spiritual home and I am pleased to volunteer some time as an Assisting Minister on its staff.

Larry R. Kamp joined the staff of Community Covenant Church in March 2006. He has served as a church musician in the Boston area since 1978 and previously served churches in Revere, Newburyport, Milton, and Brockton. He holds the Master of Sacred Music Degree from Boston University School of Theology and has completed his coursework at BUSTH toward a Doctor of Sacred Theology in Social Ethics and Liturgical Studies. Larry was also a member of the faculty at the School of Theology where he taught, served as the Director of the Seminary Singers, School of Theology chapel organist at Marsh Chapel, and directed the Church Music Training Program. Larry was appointed as the Music Director of the Braintree Choral Society from 1987 - 1990. Larry's primary occupation is Assistant Headmaster at the North Shore Christian School in Lynn where he has taught since 1982. He teaches the classes in general music and Christian Studies, Bible, Church History and Ethics to all grade levels. Larry also directs the Theatre Arts program at the school in addition to his administrative duties. He is the director of the choral program at NSCS. Larry is a member of the Teacher Advisory Board of Facing History and Ourselves in Brookline, a Holocaust and genocide studies organization, made up of scholars, educators and survivors, dedicated to the education of school-age children in the study of perceptions of race and membership. He lives in Lynn with his wife Lianne and their three children - Erika, Nathan and Jesse.