Philip Havens

Phil Havens is the Welcome and Care Coordinator at Praise.  His job is to oversee the welcoming and assimilation of new visitors and attenders into our church family.  By maintaining a welcoming environment, facilitating and connecting new visitors and attenders to our ministries, as well as recruiting and encouraging our welcome team members, he helps Praise to advance our mission of making disciples who grow in Christ and make him known. Phil serves as an elder on the Church Council, volunteers on the Trustee Board and Finance Committee, and maintains the church's website. He loves the outdoors and is on the staff of God's Great Outdoors as a website developer.  He has a B.S. in Computer Science from Quinnipiac College (now Quinnipiac University). Phil and his wife Audrey have lived in New Hartford, Connecticut since 1991.