Leadership
& Staff

Jeff Boettcher

Lead Pastor

Jeff Boettcher is the founding and lead pastor of Christ Church South Philadelphia. He has a passion for helping people connect the good news of Jesus Christ to the everyday stuff of their lives. He serves as the main preacher at Christ Church and leads in implementing our mission and vision. Pastor Jeff also serves as the team chaplain for the Philadelphia Phillies and is a leader in several church planting collaborates in Philadelphia and the Northeast Region.  He lives on Dickinson Street with his wife Angie, their three children and their dog, Brian Dawkins.

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Steve Crowell

Pastor in Training

Steve Crowell is a pastor in training preparing to be a bi-vocational pastor at Christ Church. He works full time as an electrical engineer. Drawing on his engineering background, Steve helps the leadership team pay careful attention to detail and think through implications and implementation of ministry initiatives. He serves specifically by overseeing Christ Church Kids. He lives on South Lawrence with his wife Megan, their two sons and two foster children.

Matt Slingerland

Pastor in Training

Matt Slingerland is a pastor in training preparing to be a bi-vocational pastor at Christ Church. He is a gifted teacher and helps sharpen our teaching ministry at Christ Church. He also serves as a small group leader and provides valuable leadership insight from his on the ground experience. He lives on Front Street with his wife Jessica, 3 children and his dog Charlie.

Megan Crowell

Deacon of Christ Church Kids

Megan serves our children by training and scheduling our Christ Church Kid’s volunteers, overseeing the implementation of our curriculum, and administering our child safety policies and procedures. She also helps us to serve the orphaned children in our city through overseeing our orphan care clothes closet and holding regular orphan care awareness meetings and other initiatives. Megan is passionate about seeing children come to know Jesus and we are blessed to have her helping us invest in the next generation.

Joe Catoe

Director of Church Operations And Christ church youth (Pastoral Intern)

Joe Catoe works part time as our Director of Church Operations where he leads in helping us implement and execute our church’s mission. In his other job, Joe is a Regional Sales Consultant. He is a gifted leader and visionary who has a passion to see Jesus worshipped in our city. He lives on 5th and Greenwich street with his wife Kristen and their two children.

Caleb McCurley

Pastoral Intern

Caleb is a gifted teacher and his wife Jessie a gifted administrator, so together they make a great team that connects with our youth and reaches them with the love of Christ. They lead our youth group on the First and Third Friday of every month, as well as, a mid week Bible study. Caleb and Jessie live on Moore street with their son.

John Carlson

Deacon of Recovery Ministry

John serves by leading our recovery ministry, Transformation to Recovery (www.transformationtorecovery.com).  TTR is a faith based recovery community center that seeks to bring the light of Jesus into the darkness of addiction.  Through this ministry we offer services for those in addictions, such as, detox and rehab placement, life skills, GED classes, recovery meetings and a discipleship house.  TTR also provides education and support through workshops and leadership training for local churches and community organizations.  John is passionate about this ministry and we are grateful for his strategic leadership.

Steve Gregory

Deacon of Finances

Steve serves by helping church leadership steward our resources.  He has years of business experience and uses his expertise to help us employ best practices and policies so that we might maximize our monies for our mission.  

Jess Slingerland

Church Supply Coordinator