Staff

Our Pastor: Mark Ennis

Pastor Mark Ennis is a graduate of Hope College in Holland, Mi (1980) and New Brunswick Theological Seminary in New Brunswick, N.J. (1984).

In addition, he has taken additional training in pastoral counseling and Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) at two separate hospital settings. He was a volunteer overnight chaplain at Albany Medical Center for seven years.

He has also received Disaster Chaplain Training and is a Certified Disaster Chaplain for Bergen County, NJ Office of Emergency Management and has received mediation training through the Lombard Mennonite Peace Center. Prior to his coming to Bergenfield he was pastor of Third Reformed Church in Albany, NY (1990-2006) and Community Church of Hoboken, NJ (1984-1990).

Mark has also served the Reformed Church in America, Classis of Albany as treasurer (1995-2004) and as clerk (2004-2006). Currently, he chairs the Overtures and Judicial Business Committee for the Classis of Greater-Palisades and is a member of the Judicial Business Committee of the Regional Synod of Mid-Atlantics, Reformed Church in America.

Mark serves as Vice-Chairman of the Englewood Hospital chaplain's committee and is secretary/treasurer of the Bergen County Council of Churches. Pastor Mark is also an accomplished writer who published his first book "The Circle of Seven" in 2019.

His hobbies include gardening, woodworking, reading and writing, and motorcycle riding. Mark hopes to someday be a published novelist. He is an avid NY Mets fan and NY Giants fan.

Mark is married to Rev. Pamela Pater-Ennis, a Reformed Church minister and a therapist. The couple have two daughters, Rebecca Anne and Leah Elizabeth. The girls are both college graduates.

Our Choir Director: Mary DiBartolo

Mary Alice DiBartolo received her love of music, the church, God and Jesus Christ from her mother, Alice Jabaut. Mary graduated with a BS in Music Education from Elon Universityin 1976. Mary was married in 1978 and had 1 daughter Rachel born in 1982. Many times Mary used to hold Rachel in the choir loft while she sang. Mary became a widow in 1997 when her husband died at age 42 after a long illness.

Our Keyboardist: Robert Rodriguez

Robert began working with us in October of 2017. He has thirty plus years of teaching and performance experience. As a Jazz pianist he hass performed at the United Nations, Gracie Mansion and Lincoln Center as well as broadcast performances on NPR of Texas, aine, and New York City. Bob was the recipient o fthe prestigions 2007 CMA's New Jazz Works program to create and perform a new jazz composition. We are grateful that he is sharing his talents with us.

Our Maintenance Manager: Ken Amos

Ken Amos has managed our property for decades; since before most people can remember. In addition to our property he also manage many area churches and offices with high quality cleaning and maintenance.

Our Spanish Church Planter - Ivan Gil

Minister organized and dedicated to the tasks of the ministry. With experience as a Bible teacher in Sunday schools. I currently serve as Director of Missions. I teach classes and coordinate discipleship meetings via Zoom, developing a Cellular Ministry in homes. I have developed a ministry through WhatsApp sending daily spiritual reflections based on biblical texts as a way of doing evangelism. I obtained a Bachelor with a Major in Studies in Theology with a Certification in Pastoral Counseling. I am currently in my second year of Master of Divinity at Wesley Seminary. Secularly I work as an administrative assistant.