Staff

Mont Mitchell
Pastor
Mont grew up in a wonderful home in the east central Illinois town of Robinson, 4.5 hours south of Chicago. While growing up in a agricultural family, (Mont’s father owns and operates a greenhouse landscape business), Mont made plans to enter the horticulture/agriculture industry. However while attending St. Louis Christian College God seemed to have other plans. Shortly thereafter, Mont began planning and dreaming about starting a church. Following several wonderful ministries in Indiana and Kentucky Mont and his family moved to Bolingbrook to start this church. Mont and his wife Christie have three sons. Mont is a music lover (all kinds) and enjoys sports especially golf.

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Rob Daniels
Executive Pastor
Our Executive Pastor, Rob Daniels oversees the Small Groups and Discipleship Ministries at Westbrook as well as serving as our Executive Pastor. Originally from Park Forest IL, Rob graduated from Lincoln Christian College. Rob shares his passionate ministry of helping connect people to the community of Christ with everyone he meets. If you visit Westbrook and you are not in a Small Group, look for Rob and he’ll make sure to get you plugged in. Rob is married to Ruthie, is the dad to four great children and joined the Westbrook staff in June of 2005.

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Jonathan Alarcon
Congregational Pastor ~ Gente Unida
Jonathan comes to Westbrook from Puebla, Mexico after graduating from Moody Bible Institute in 2004. Along with his responsibilities as the Congregational Pastor of Gente Unida, Jonathan is also a radio DJ for WMBI (Moody Broadcasting) FM – 90.1 and AM-1110. You can hear Jonathan’s show “Que Pasa Chicago?” on AM 1110 on Saturdays at 8:30AM -12:00 PM. Jonathan’s loves include music, radio and eating Enchilada soup from Chili’s! Acompananos a alabar a Dios!

Cesar Osmar
Congregational Pastor ~ Familia Unida
Cesar Osmar comes from Asunción, Paraguay, and he has lived in Chicago for over a decade. When he and his wife gave their life to the Lord, they immediately began serving in the city. He shares his passionate ministry of helping connect families to the community of Christ with everyone he meets by serving as the Pastor of Westbrooks’s city congregation ~ Iglesia Famila Unida. Cesar is a radio DJ for Univision Radio (Broadcasting) – Recuerdos 93.5.&103.1 FM. Cesar loves to spend time with his family, wife and pet named Gilbert.

Rick Marcum
Pastor of Student Ministries
Rick graduated with a Bachelor of Biblical Literature at Ozark Christian college in May of 2002. In August of 2002 Rick married his college sweetheart~Mindy. His passion is seeing young people come to Christ and learn to have a real relationship with Him. Rick loves sports and the outdoors. He is passionate about fly fishing. His biggest fish is a 42 inch Steelhead Trout.

Nate Phillips
Pastor of Student Ministries
Nate joined the Westbrook staff in January of 2010 where he has primary oversight of our Jr. High Ministries (Ave 5/6 and 7-8 Grade) and Student Worship Ministries. Originally from the state of Georgia, Nate and his wife Alicia are both graduates of Atlanta Christian College. His “grand plan” when he moved to Chicago was to join the Second City troupe with a dream of making it onto Saturday Night Live, but God’s plan included something a bit different. Westbrook is thrilled that he took a detour from show business to be about God’s business. Who knows~ he might still end on being on SNL!

Mary Wolf-Fischer
Director of Community Care
Mary joined the staff at Westbrook in May of 2001 as the Ministry Assistant for the super busy Children’s Ministry. A faithful servant with a tender heart and creative ideas. Mary became the Director of Early Childhood Ministries in 2002 where she served in that ministry until her transition to the Ministry Care area in July of 2008. Mary, her husband and two daughters have been at Westbrook since 1998.

Chris Dinaso
Director of Worship Ministries
Chris has been attending Westbrook Christian Church since our grand opening in October of 1996. As an outstanding musician, Chris used his talent in a secular format, until the opportunity to play with the Westbrook band came about. With a fast developing heart for Worship, Chris began leading worship in 1998, and joined the staff in January of 2001. Chris is married to Lisa, and has four children.

Dave Fischer
Director of Elementary Ministries
Dave is a guy that you need to meet. His love for Christ, the church and for children make him a key member of our church family. Dave and his family began attending Westbrook in 1998 whe he quickly gave his life to the Lord and immediately began serving. As one of our most faithful “set up” guys, he experienced the true church planting vibe. Joining our full time staff in November of 2002, Dave left a successful Market place job in the Graphic Arts industry. Yes, this is the same Dave Fischer who is married to Mary. Dave loves music, art, humor and hanging out. Ask him to show you his opossum face!

William Orlowski
Director of Guest Services
As Director of Guest Services William oversees our Usher/Server/Greeter ministry as well as our Hospitality Ministry. If you’re not careful William will be the first to recruit your for Ministry. He loves people, he loves the church and he loves serving. William joined our staff part time in 2002 and is married to Tracie (who served as our Children’s director for 1.5 years) and has three boys. Favorite pastimes include being a great guy and serving God. He’s pretty handy with a hammer as well.

Marc A Fry
Administrative Director, tHis Generation
Marc joined the Westbrook staff in July of 2008 where he is the organizational arm of the overall Children and Student Ministry environments and ministry.  We at WCC have been blessed to have a long history with the Fry family as Marc and his wife Beckie and daughter Katy ( a student at Moody Bible Institute in Spokane) were original church plant launch team members at Westbrook.  After completing their preset commitment with us, they returned to their home church in Naperville until the ministry bug hit Marc in a big way and we were able to bring him on staff.  If you want to hear some cool submarine stories corner Marc this weekend.

Linda Ely
Financial Controller
Linda, a CPA by education, leads and oversees the financial oversight of our church.  Linda and her family have been attending Westbrook for nearly 12 years as they first got connected with Westbrook while we were still at Oak View School.  In addition we are indebted to the Elys as her husband Mark designed and initiated our first website.  Mark and Linda have four children and she joined our staff in January 2008.

Rob Heerdt
Facility Manager
If you’ve been around Westbrook then you have surely met Rob.  This guy is going to have one of the biggest mansions in heaven, as he is by far one of the most humble servants at Westbrook.  Rob has faithfully assisted so many of us at Westbrook from the very first day of the life of Westbrook in 1996.  Over the years, he has assisted with  set up and tear down when we were a portable church (missing only one Sunday in 4.5 years) to setting up and tearing down chairs each weekend.  In November of 2008 Rob joined our staff as our Facility Manager.  We at Westbrook are thrilled to share ministry with Rob.

Mindy Marcum
Ministry Assistant
As you can probably deduce by the name, Mindy is married to our Youth Pastor~ Rick. From Broomfield, Co., Mindy graduated from Ozark Christian College with an Associates Degree in Christian Education. While her husband may be passionate about fly fishing, Mindy is passionate about her husband and their beautiful daughter. But wait… She loves to fly fish also!

Jen Borland
Ministry Assistant
Jen joined the Westbrook Ministry staff in 2004 after being a faithful volunteer and attendee at Westbrook since 1999. Jen is married to Kyle and they have three children. Originally from Southern California, Jen is still learning to cope with the always-changing Chicago weather. Her sweet spirit and ever present willingness to assist makes her a valuable asset to our office team. Don’t let her sweetness fool you however she’s got a mean jump shot and a competitive streak that’s second to none.

Karla Martinez
Ministry Assistant
Karla Martinez joined the Gente Unida staff in the spring of 2009 as the Administrative Assistant. She is a gifted administrator who keeps the office running smoothly. Karla is bilingual in English and Spanish and enjoys traveling and learning about other languages. In her free time, Karla enjoys reading, movies and running. Karla has a passion for serving and is a tremendous blessing to our staff!