Pastors & Staff

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.

Sarah McKee

Preschool Director
Mission Campus

Olivia Miller

Social Media Coordinator
Mission Campus

Albert Moreno Torres

Custodian
Mission Campus

Rev. Dr. Rodger Nishioka

Senior Pastor

Rev. Dr. Rodger Nishioka  joined the staff in March 2016 as director of adult faith formation, later becoming senior associate pastor. He was called as co-pastor in January of 2023 and became senior pastor in December of 2023.

Rodger believes that because God created us all for relationship, discovering how to follow Jesus Christ happens best in community. He is profoundly grateful to be serving at Village Church and is inspired daily by the faith and faithfulness of this vibrant community of children, youth, young adults and adults.

Born in Honolulu and raised in Seattle at the Japanese Presbyterian Church, prior to coming to Village, Rodger taught at Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta for 15 years as the Benton Family professor of Christian Education. Before serving on the faculty of Columbia Seminary, he was director of youth and young adult ministries for the Presbyterian Church (USA). Rodger is a graduate of Seattle Pacific University (BA), McCormick Theological Seminary (MATS), and Georgia State University (PhD.). Rodger is most at home in the classroom both as a teacher and as a learner. The son of Rev. Richard and Alice Nishioka, he is evidence that you can be a pastor’s kid and still love Jesus and the church.​

Michelle O’Neal

Senior Content Editor
Mission Campus

Dunnia Olivier Sanchez

Custodian
Mission Campus

Alan Olson

Director of Facilities (all locations)
Office located at Mission Campus

Rev. Anna Owens

Site Pastor
Antioch Campus

Anna joined Village Presbyterian Church as site pastor at our Antioch Campus in Overland Park in April 2023. She was born and raised in South Carolina. She is a classically trained opera singer, receiving a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. At Converse, she first began to sense a call to ministry and a leadership inclination. She is a graduate of Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. ​Anna most recently served as the associate pastor for spiritual growth at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Dayton, Ohio. She has also served churches in Indiana and Alabama.