Pastors & Staff

Lisa Harrison

Site & Communications Coordinator
Antioch Campus

Lisa joined the staff at Antioch Campus in June 2021 as the communications and site coordinator. Born and raised in the suburbs just north of Chicago, (Go Bears!) Lisa’s family was very active in the Village Presbyterian Church of Northbrook, where she and Tim were married in 1991, and where her father still serves on the Endowment Committee. Lisa and Tim raised their two young adult sons, Parker and Davis, as members of the Presbyterian Church of Stanley, where Lisa served as a deacon, taught Sunday School and VBS, rang in the bell choir, and chaperoned an amazing mission trip to Mississippi to help with Hurricane Katrina cleanup efforts.

Prior to joining the Antioch staff, Lisa taught middle school Social Studies, English and Spanish at The Barstow School for 12 years, and then worked as a magazine editor for several local publications for a decade. She earned her BA and MA in Education from the University of Kansas, where she met Tim, and where both of their boys have recently graduated. Needless to say, they are all avid fans of Jayhawks basketball.

Dr. Langston Hemenway

Director of Village Brass & the Kansas City Wind Symphony
Mission Campus

Dr. Hemenway is director of Village Brass. He also serves as the director of instrumental studies at William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri. He earned his doctorate in instrumental conducting from the University of Michigan, his masters in conducting from the University of Kansas, and his bachelors in music education from the University of Oklahoma. Before being hired in summer 2021, Langston was already a beloved part of the Village family for his visionary and dynamic leadership of the all-volunteer Kansas City Wind Symphony, a Village Arts Alliance ensemble.

Rev. Chad Herring

Interim Senior Associate Pastor; Director of Adult Faith Formation
Mission Campus

The Rev. Chad Andrew Herring joins Village as our interim senior associate pastor, with 18 years of congregational leadership experience, first as associate pastor of Southminster Presbyterian Church of Prairie Village, and then as pastor of the John Knox Presbyterian Kirk of Kansas City. Chad was elected to serve as moderator of Heartland Presbytery, a member of the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board and as treasurer of the Synod of Mid-America. Recently, Chad was a resident chaplain at Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City, and completed seven years on the Prairie Village City Council. The unifying thread of this work is a desire to nurture emotional, spiritual and physical health for ourselves and for our neighbors, as God in Jesus Christ invites us to do.

Meanwhile, Chad delights in his twin teenage daughters and the Australian Shepherd and Wheaten Terrier pups that enliven his household. He prefers baseball (Royals) and hockey (Blues) when given the choice, uses fountain pens and often has ink on his hands to prove it, and is grateful to walk with Village during this time of faithful transition.

Laura Hobbs

Executive Assistant to Rev. Dr. Rodger Nishioka
Mission Campus

Greg Hoeven

Senior Video Producer
Mission Campus

Helen Hofmeister

Music Associate
Mission Campus

Jenny Hull

Director of Child & Family Development Center

Children’s Music Coordinator
Mission Campus

Jenny Hull is the coordinator of Morning Stars, the Village Church Children’s Music and Worship program. She has been leading the oldest children’s choir since 2008. A cellist, Jenny received her undergraduate degree in music from Illinois State University in 1995. She received her Master’s in Education from the University of Kansas in 2002. After her children were born, she became a certified Kindermusik instructor, and started her work with Village Church in the music department, directing the children’s choir.

In 2007, Jenny began working at the Village Church Child and Family Development Center, where she now serves as director.  She also teaches preschool music classes and directs Village’s yearly drama camp for elementary students each summer.

Jenny and her husband Brad live in Overland Park with their two children, Brady and Katie.

Rev. Maggie Johnson Phillips

Pastor for Young Adult Ministry & Worship Arts
Mission Campus

Maggie is wildly grateful to be in ministry with Village Church. She was raised in the pews of Second Presbyterian Church, Little Rock, Arkansas, and she has previously worked at churches in Dallas and Atlanta. She is a graduate of the University of Tulsa (B.A. in Psychology) and Columbia Theological Seminary (M.Div.).

A few things Maggie loves include a fresh cup of coffee, worship liturgy, conversations around the table and the hopeful Church. When not serving the congregation of Village, you can find her practicing yoga, reading a book from her never-ending list, going on hikes with her dog Charlie, or hanging out in the kitchen while her husband Sam cooks dinner.

Julie Jones

Office Administrator/Receptionist
Child & Family Development Center

Désireé Keyes

Coordinator for Adult Faith Formation and Pastoral Care Volunteers
Mission Campus

Ann Kranker

Director of Finance & Accounting
Mission Campus

Dr. Jan Kraybill

Principal Organist
Antioch Campus

GRAMMY-nominated artist Jan Kraybill (DMA, FAGO) is a musical leader and dynamic speaker; a concert organist, pianist, and harpsichordist; an educator, church musician, and consultant; and an enthusiastic advocate for the power of music to change lives for the better.

In addition to maintaining a very active concert schedule, Dr. Kraybill is organ conservator at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, organist-in-tesidence at the international headquarters of Community of Christ in Independence, Missouri; and organist at Village on Antioch Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) in Overland Park, Kansas. She plays and oversees the care of the Kansas City metro area’s three largest pipe organs: at Community of Christ, the Auditorium’s 113-rank Aeolian-Skinner (installed in 1959) and the Temple’s 102-rank Casavant (1993), and at the Kauffman Center’s Helzberg Hall, the 102-rank Julia Irene Kauffman Casavant (2012).

Dr. Kraybill’s degrees in music education and piano and organ performance were earned at Kansas State University and the Conservatory of Music and Dance at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. In 2010 she achieved the distinction of Fellow of the AGO, organists’ highest certification level. She has served in many local, regional and national roles in the AGO, The Hymn Society and the Master Teacher Institute, most recently as executive director of The Hymn Society in the U.S. and Canada. She is a member of Mensa. Her extra-musical interests include antiquing, lace making and riding her Harley-Davidson with her husband, Allan.

Photo courtesy of Floyd Gingrich.

Andrew Krenzel

Help Desk Specialist
Mission Campus

Paul Lemon

Reception & Operations Coordinator
Youth Band Director
Mission Campus

Kathy Lueckert

Senior Director of Business Operations
Mission Campus

Dr. Joshua Maize

Co-Director of Music Ministry
Mission Campus

Joshua Maize (DMA) is a conductor, vocalist and teacher in the Kansas City area. He is co-director of music ministry at Village Presbyterian Church, where he directs the principal adult chorus, the Village Choir, as well as the Village Chamber Choir and Village Voices youth choir.

Joshua holds a bachelor’s degree in music education and a doctor of musical arts degree in choral conducting from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance and a master’s degree in musicology and church music from the University of Kansas. He was an Ellen Battell Stoeckel Vocal Fellow at Yale University. Joshua has worked in Presbyterian and Episcopal congregations in Missouri, Kansas and Texas where he has established and grown choral and instrumental ensembles for people of all ages. He has served on faculty at the Conservatory of Music and Dance (UMKC) and currently serves as the sub-dean for the Greater Kansas City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.

He has worked extensively as a choral conductor and vocalist, performing throughout the United States and Europe. Joshua has appeared on the rosters of the Norfolk Chamber Choir, Spire Chamber Choir and Te Deum Chamber Choir. He is a member of the American Choral Directors’ Association, Association of Anglican Musicians, the Presbyterian Association of Musicians, the Royal School of Church Music and the American Guild of Organists.