leadership
A distinctive of Redeemer Fellowship is Team Leadership. That is, we believe the church is built around a team of elders, pastors, teachers, and staff who serve and lead in their area of greatest gifting and skill. We want to avoid building a church around one dominant person’s temperament. Instead, we want to cultivate a team of leaders to serve the church through collaboration of diverse gifting and personality.
Kevin Cawley // preaching pastor .:. directional leader
Kevin and Katie Cawley met as undergraduates at Wheaton College, but didn’t begin dating until several years after graduation while Katie was in nursing school and Kevin was pursuing his Masters in Biblical studies at Wheaton. They were married in 2004.
During their sophomore year in college, God began cultivating in Kevin a passion to plant churches as he and Katie both participated in the launch of a new church, planted by Kevin’s mentor.
Following graduation and a church apprenticeship program in Minneapolis for Kevin, God blessed the Cawleys with the opportunity to participate in the launch of another church in Chicago’s western suburbs. This provided them with four years of exciting ministry and valuable lessons, as well as an awakened a passion for the necessity of the logistical preparation and team leadership. Following this, the Cawleys moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, where Kevin studied theology at Regent College and Katie was a labor and delivery nurse.
Before moving to Westport, the Cawleys spent ten months in Little Rock, Arkansas, where Kevin was a church planter in residence at Fellowship Associates. Kevin and Katie have a baby boy named Quinn.
If you’re interested in some of the random things that interest Kevin, visit his (embarrassingly neglected) blog.
Kris McGee // preaching pastor .:. community development
Kris and Adrienne McGee met as high school students in Oklahoma, and were married in 1999 when Kris graduated from Wheaton College and returned to Oklahoma. Soon after marrying, they moved to Dallas for Kris to attend Dallas Theological Seminary.
While in seminary, Kris served at a church equipping and training premarital mentors and counseling engaged couples. Upon graduation from seminary, the McGees moved to Wichita, KS, where Kris worked as a student and family pastor. Adrienne enjoys being a full-time mom to their two children, Elisabeth (3) and Lucas (1), and helps wherever she can at the church.
Having worked on three church staffs pastoring youth, young couples, and families, Kris has a growing burden to see the gospel being lived out in homes and changing communities.
Kris and Kevin first met in 1995 and developed their friendship during their days at Wheaton College where they were teammates for three years on Wheaton’s football team.
Wes Crawford // worship pastor
Wes and Melissa met while in college at the University of North Texas and were married in 1999. Wes has served as worship leader in churches in Texas and in Mexico, where the Crawford family lived as missionaries from 2004 to 2008. The Crawfords have four little girls (Anna, Maggie, Claire, and Elaine), the younger two of which were born in Mexico.
Wes has a passion to shepherd people toward a huge, biblical, transforming vision of God, shaping the corporate worship at Redeemer to communicate compellingly and truthfully about the glory of God in Christ.