Bill Mulford, The Community Church's Interim Minister, is a native of the Catskill Mountains region of upstate New York.  His early career was in law enforcement.  He is the father of three grown children.  Dan, his youngest, just returned from his second deployment in Iraq.  Bill and his wife, Georgianne, were married during his ministry in The First Congregational Christian Church of Irvington, New Jersey, in the late 1980s.  After his graduation from Lancaster Theological Seminary, cum laude, Bill served churches as Senior Pastor in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Iowa, and Florida.  More recently, Bill trained and became certified as a Transitional Ministry Specialist.  This led to his serving as Interim Minister in Virginia, Florida, Texas, and most recently, Colorado.  Bill's credentials are recognized by all the mainline denominations, including the United Church of Christ.  We are delighted to have Bill as our Interim Minister.

Audrey V. Leef has been an active member of The Community Church since 1955.  An ordained minister, she holds degrees from Drew University Theological School, Stevens Institute of Technology, Montclair State University and Rutgers University.  Before joining the staff of The Community Church as Pastoral Associate in 1998, she became Pastor Emerita of The First Congregational Christian Church of Irvington, New Jersey.  She also served eight years as Protestant Chaplain at Montclair State University where she holds the title Professor Emerita in the Mathematics Department.  She is a Counseling Specialist in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors (AAPC).

Tallen Olsen joined the staff of the Community Church of Mountain Lakes in August of 2008 as the Director of Music Ministry.  He also is the Director of Choral Music and Choral Activities at Morris Hills H.S. in Rockaway, NJ.  At the church he directs the Chancel, Children's, and Youth Choirs and oversees all music aspects of the worship services.  Mr. Olsen studied Vocal Performance, Vocal Music Education, Vocal Pedagogy, and Sociology at The Ohio State University and went on to obtain a BFA in Music Theatre Performance from Elon University, in North Carolina.  After graduation Mr. Olsen toured with the National Touring Company of Fiddler on the Roof.  Mr. Olsen also sang in the operas Albert Herring, Carmen, The Marriage of Figaro, and The Three Little Pigs, and performed oratorios such as Handel's Messiah, Elijah, The Conversion of St. Paul; Mozart's Requiem; Stainer's Crucifixion; Orff's Carmina Burana; Schubert's Mass in G; and Rutter's Requiem and Gloria.  Mr. Olsen has worked as a professional church musician and cantor for churches in Burlington, NC, and Woodbury, NJ.

Robin Cooper is the Director of Children's Ministries at the church.  Robin grew up in Elmhurst, IL, a suburb of Chicago, spending much of her time at the Bethel United Church of Christ there! She attended DePauw University in Greencastle, IN, majoring in Elementary Education.  She married and moved to New Jersey, teaching both fourth and fifth grades before having her two children.  She and her family joined The Community Church nearly seventeen years ago, and since that time, Robin has served on several committees (including chairing the Board of Christian Education), been the church secretary, and sung in the Chancel Choir.  Her ministry centers on providing a safe space for every child of God and programs to keep children and youth wanting to be at this church.  Robin runs God's Little Outreach Workers (GLOW) for first, second, and third graders; Tuesday Evening Supper Club (TESC) for fourth and fifth graders; a Fall play; an intergenerational spring Talent Show; and Vacation Bible School in the summer.  Her favorite Sunday of all is when the children of the church create and lead worship for everyone one Sunday in the winter.  The children do everything from playing the prelude and ringing the bells, to writing the call to worship and creating the sermon.  Robin's mission is to facilitate an environment that creates a generation of people who love to worship and praise God, and she cannot wait to meet YOU!

Donna Garzinsky is The Community Church's organist.  Donna earned a B.M.  degree (Magna cum laude) in Church Music/Organ and Music Education from Westminster Choir College.  She won first prize in the McCurdy Talent Award Competition for incoming freshmen.  Later on she also won the Jane Whittemore Organ Competition sponsored by the Metropolitan NJ Chapter of the AGO.  Donna earned an MA in Christian Education from Princeton Theological Seminary and has served churches in Stanhope, Plainfield, Westfield, and Dover, NJ, as organist and/or director of music.  Donna's goal as organist/accompanist is to provide music that supports and enhances peoples' worship experience.

Janet Eveleth is the Bell Choir Director at The Community Church.  Music has always been a big part of her life.  While at Smith College, Janet was a member of the Smith College Choir, which toured overseas in the summers.  She studied bell ringing at Westminster Choir College in Princeton and attended American Guild of English Handbell Ringers workshops.  The purpose of the Bell Choir is "uniting people through a musical art" as well as making beautiful music.