Randy Spaulding / Pastor
Randy was born in Kokomo, Indiana. His education includes: Ball State University, BS: Music, 1983; University of South Florida, Master of Music, 1998; Yale Divinity School, Master of Divinity, 2014. He has served congregations in Indiana, Florida, Connecticut and Colorado. He was ordained for ministry by Mountain States Mennonite Conference on February 17, 2019. He is also an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister and serves as a Community Minister with the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder. Randy previously served as an oncology and sickle-cell chaplain at Yale-New Haven Hospital (New Haven, CT). He currently serves in leadership with Inclusive Mennonite Pastors and the Queer Leadership Coalition of Mennonite Church USA.
Pastor Randy has had a life-long love of music and has taught piano and voice throughout his life. He served as the Project Editor for the Mennonite hymnal supplements, Sing the Journey and Sing the Story and has led music and worship workshops around the U.S.
Randy and his husband, Gary Stephens, live in Denver, CO and are the companions to Pride, their happy chocolate lab. They enjoy their many nieces and nephews and previously served as foster parents to two young boys. Randy is also an avid quilter, and has made many for friends and family, and donated many to Mennonite Central Committee.
He is honored to be journeying with his new First Mennonite family, sharing the Good News of peace, love, inclusion and justice in the Denver community and beyond!
Paul Johnson / Facility Manager
Paul is the youngest of four sons of Arthur and Dorothy Johnson. He grew up in the Lutheran Church and attended a year of school at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran School in Englewood after his family moved here in 1985. Paul grew up also in New Jersey and Montana. Starting as a catering chef out of high school he then worked as a hotel sales manager for events and owned a wedding planning and event business in Charlotte NC. In 2012 God started redirecting Paul’s path to eventually return home to take care of his elderly parents until their passing in 2017 and 2018. Paul’s experience from 2010, 2011, and 2012 with an evangelical church in Glen Haven cooking for Pastor Glen Richards inspired him to be re-baptized as an adult. After his parents’ passing, while heading back to camp, Paul received a response from Glenn Balzer, less than 24 hours after the closing of his parents’ estate, about the FMC Facility Manager position… guiding Paul in God’s direction forward. God has us in God’s hands for our good. Paul joined the FMC staff as Facility Manager in September 2019.