Dr. David Diehl
Senior Pastor
A native of Pittsburgh, PA, David has served as founding and senior pastor of Maple Valley Presbyterian Church since 1983. He came to Maple Valley following 14 years of serving in College Ministry. David has a Doctorate from Fuller Theological S... view details
Brian Moss
Associate Pastor
Brian Moss is from a small farming community in northwest Iowa. In 1998, Brian received a Bachelor of Music degree from Belmont University in Nashville, TN. He worked with songwriter and author, Michael Card, for three years before moving to Seat... view details
Mark Fisher
Director of Pastoral Care and Missions
Mark Fisher a.k.a. "Mark vs. Wild" has been on staff at MVPC since 2007 as Director of Pastoral Care. Prior to that he and his family served for 18 years as a Missionary with Wycliffe Bible Translators; 4 of those years wer... view details
Steve Bodwell
Director of Youth Ministries
Steve Bodwell has been attending MVPC since it first started in 1981. In 1986, after graduating from Oregon Sate University (Go Beavs!), Steve took over leadership of the Youth department and has been walking with students in his trademark carg... view details
Faye Morley
Children's Ministry Director
Faye has attended MVPC since 1993 and taught Sunday School, led Vacation Bible School and the K-2nd grade program before joining the staff as Associate Children’s Ministry Director in 2000, then becoming the Children’s Ministry Direc... view details
Liann Holt
Business Administrator
Liann has attended MVPC since 1998 and volunteered in the Children's, Worship and Women's Ministries in addition to being an Elder before joining the staff in 2010. Liann is married to Steve and they have two boys, Dylan & Ethan. Liann ... view details
Brian Keiper
Worship Director
Brian has been at MVPC as our Worship Director since the Spring of 2008. Brian previously was involved in worship leadership at St. Luke's Lutheran Church as well as Peace Lutheran. Brian and his wonderful wife Jen have a son... view details
David Miles
Director of Outreach and Connection
David has been at MVPC since the fall of 2010. He and his wife Monika have a daughter named Ella and a gold retriever named Cooper. When time allows, David enjoys hiking, cycling, snowshoeing, reading, playing sports and fantasy football. ... view details
Karen Ruckman
Worship Coordinator
Karen has attended MVPC since moving here from Southern California in 1999. She came on staff in 1999 as interim Worship Director for a short time and has remained on staff as our Worship Associate. Karen took on the role of Worship Director again i... view details
Nick Longmire
Co-Director High School Youth
Nick Longmire has grown up living in the Northwest his entire life. In 1999 he gave his life to the Lord and soon after strongly felt the Holy Spirit guiding him into Youth Ministry. Nick has been on staff working with junior and senior high stu... view details
Jeff Myers
Co-Director High School Youth
Jeff has been attending Maple Valley Presbyterian Church his entire life and remembers turning pages for his mom at the piano on long-ago Sunday mornings. His involvement in the youth program at MVPC afforded him with awesome friendships, mentor... view details
Dan Potter
628 (6th, 7th & 8th grade) Director
Dan Potter has lived, worked, and played in Maple valley since 1973. First employed at MVPC in 1996 as a Youth Director and has continued to serve the community through the church as well as teaching and coaching in the Tahoma School District. Da... view details
Donna Hsu
Children's Ministry Associate
Donna has been attending MVPC since February of 2006. She previously was Director of Family Ministry in Ohio prior to moving to Washington, and started with MVPC Children’s Ministry in 2009. She married in 1984 and has 2 children – James and S... view details
Sue LaBrie
NLC Preschool Director
Sue has been at MVPC and NLC Preschool since 2000 after moving to Washington from Southern California. She has served on the board, taught all ages and now is the Director. Sue has always had a heart for children and barring about ten years of her... view details
Kim Binder
Children's Ministry Assistant
Kim has been attending MVPC for 13 years and spent many years volunteering in different areas of our Children’s Ministry. Kim has been on staff as the Children’s Ministry Assistant since 2006. Kim loves to help new families (especially tho... view details
Carol Sturza
Worship Assistant
Carol has been attending MVPC since 1991, and was initially the Outreach Assistant for three years starting in January 2005, then became the Worship Assistant in the fall of 2007. Carol loves seeing God change the lives of those far from Him an... view details
Dixie Smith
IT Support and Assistant to Pastor David
Dixie was raised on a farm in the Palouse (go Cougs!). She met her husband Steve while working at Boeing and together they are raising two daughters, Karissa and Miranda. They started attending MVPC in 1997 because Dixie had heard of the great Presch... view details
Nancy Woods
Pastoral Care Assistant
Nancy grew up in Colorado and moved to the Seattle area June 1990. Nancy has worked at MVPC the past 3 years as assistant to Pastor Mark Fisher supporting the Care Ministry. Nancy and her husband Lee have been married for 21 years. They ha... view details
Sarah Buban
Outreach, Communications & Small Groups
Sarah was born in Southern California but lived in Maple Valley through Jr. High and High School (Go Bears!). Undergraduate years were spent at Seattle Pacific University where the mission is to “engage the culture, change the world” (Go Falco... view details
Melanie Kennedy
Administrative Assistant
Melanie, her husband Jim and son Matt have been attending MVPC since 1995. Melanie enjoys her entire family and especially her three adult children and six grandchildren. Melanie retired from Boeing after 21 years, then worked part-ti... view details
Alison Forney
Youth Administrator
Alison started her journey at MVPC when she was in elementary school. She rededicated her life to Christ at a summer camp put on by the MVPC Youth department. She started volunteering with the youth group when she was a senior in High School and... view details