Our Leadership

We are grateful for the leaders who serve our community including staff, volunteer team leaders, and elders. Here are a few of the folks who help lead Emmanuel.

senior Pastor

Scott Strickman

Scott was born and raised in Brooklyn. He began reading the Bible in the year after he graduated from college because he realized that the Bible was foundational to so much of what he read in college. He found the person of Jesus compelling enough that his reading spurred a personal and religious journey that led to his coming to believe that Jesus was worth following. He was working at Juilliard in the years after college and during that time started to discern a call to the pastoral ministry. In 1999 he moved out of Manhattan to attend Westminster Seminary, and returned in 2002 to come on staff at Emmanuel. He lives in the neighborhood of the church with his family.

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executive pastor

Tim Chang

Tim is a native of New York City. He was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Staten Island through high school. After college at Cornell University, he attended Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He then served in pastoral ministry at a local church in Boston for almost 15 years. Since 2023, Tim serves as the Executive Pastor at Emmanuel. He loves being in this role because he enjoys knowing and serving people, as well as getting things done efficiently. His greatest joy is witnessing others love Jesus more and more. Tim also enjoys good food (quantity over quality), a hearty laugh, and spending time with his family: his wife, son, and daughter.

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