Leadership Team

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Welcome

Thanks for visiting! Whether you’re searching for a church home or answers to life’s biggest questions, we’re glad you found us. Risen Hope Church was planted as a Covenant Fellowship Church of Glen Mills, PA campus and set apart as our own church in September 2017.

Our vision statement is “Worshiping God and Welcoming All with Gospel Truth and Neighbor Love.” This church opens wide her doors and offers her welcome in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. God is building us as a culturally, ethnically, economically, and generationally diverse body.

These pages will introduce you briefly to the mission and ministries of our church. We hope you’ll catch a glimpse of the life and joy of Christ in our church. Please let us know if there’s any way we can serve you.

Rick, Alex, Dave
The Pastoral Team

Location

1001 Washington Ave.
Prospect Park, PA 19076

(267) 930-4673

Sundays 10:00 AM

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The Bridge Course

We offer children’s ministry during service for children from ages 2 to 6th grade, teaching from a gospel-centered curriculum that parents can also use at home. All workers have been fully vetted according to the law and trained by the child-protection organization Ministry Safe.

Risen Hope Church

1001 Washington Ave
Prospect Park, PA 19076

267-930-HOPE (4673)

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TruthWalk Registration

TruthWalk is a teenage and adult level discipleship program offering various biblical, theological, apologetic, and Christian life teachings. These twice-a-month classes will provide truth to inform our faith and transform our life.

Schedule and Location
Dates and Times: the 3rd and 4th Sunday of each month, 2:30-3:30PM (unless otherwise announced)
Location: the church office: 536 Burmont Rd., Drexel Hill, PA 19026

Registration
Please register here. Please note that we are unable to provide childcare during TruthWalk.

Classes

January 20, 27
Class: A Life of Prayer (Spiritual Disciplines)
Teacher: Bill Davis

February 17, 24
Class: Christ in the Old Testament (Christology)
Teacher: Rob Irias

Explore Class Registration

This form registers you for the Explore Class at Risen Hope starting on September 9, 2018. One registration per person.

The course runs from September 9 through October 14
Time: 2:30 – 3:30 pm
Location: The Bohn Parlor (2nd Floor) of our Sunday service location in Drexel Hill United Methodist Church

Please purchase an Explore Manual at the Book Nook on Sundays.

No Childcare is available.

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Bridge Course Registration

This form registers you for the Winter 2019 Bridge Course at Risen Hope. One registration per person. Visit the Bridge Course page for course details.

There are two class options:

Wednesday evening, 6:30–8:15 pm
This meets at 715 Harper Avenue in Drexel Hill starting January 16.
No childcare provided.
Saturday morning, 9:00–10:30 am
This meets at 155 North Rolling Road in Springfield starting January 19. Childcare is provided.

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- Saturday evening course through November 19
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GRACE and Race Fellowship

Risen Hope’s GRACE and Race Fellowship is helping our church discover understanding, empathy, and mutual commitment in love across the ethnic lines that normally divide. Joel and Tia work closely with our pastoral team to develop strategies for conversation (called Grace and Race Conversations), and to help us build into one another with humility and grace.

Family and Discipleship Pastor

Rick Butler

Rick has been a believer for over 20 years. In May 2019 he was installed as an ordained pastor in Risen Hope. In addition to general pastoral oversight, Rick, as our Family Life and Discipleship Pastor provides pastoral care within the church and teaches in various contexts.

Rick previously served as a Youth Pastor and as a bi-vocational Lead Pastor of a multi-ethnic church in Upper Darby, PA. He has a huge heart for discipleship, church planting, and winning the lost to Christ.

He has earned a Bachelors of the Bible and another Bachelors in Social Work, both from Cairn University. He has also earned a Masters of Divinity in Pastoral Studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Currently, Rick is employed as a Workforce Team Leader at EDSI, Inc. He and his wife, Jae, have two children.

Senior Pastor

Alex Chen

Alex has been a believer for over 25 years. He has served as Senior Pastor in Risen Hope since January 2024. Alex preaches, trains leaders, and oversees the diaconal team, Promise Kingdom (children’s ministry), member care, and global missions. He also leads a community group with his wife Teresa.

Alex graduated from Rice University with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He worked on chip design projects for Intel for nine years before moving to Philadelphia to attend Westminster Seminary, from which he received a Masters of Divinity. He was ordained in October 2016. He and his wife, Teresa, have four children.

Outreach and Worship Pastor

Dave Estornell

Dave has been a believer since 2005 and in Sovereign Grace Churches ever since. He leads our music worship and tech ministries and equips the church for evangelism, outreach, and mercy. Dave also oversees church administration, finances and our office staff.

Raised in Delco with multi-generational roots in Drexel Hill, Dave served in the US Navy followed by three decades of leadership in the software industry. Reflecting a growing call towards pastoral ministry, Dave began our multi-year pastoral leadership course in 2016, completed the Worship Matters Intensive for worship pastors and leaders in 2020, and the Sovereign Grace ordination requirements in 2022. He was ordained in June 2022. Dave and his wife Christine live in Springfield.

Pastoral Assistants

The Pastoral Assistant provides help to the ordained elders in key areas such as member and hospital visits, member care, and giving input in elders meetings. The pastors are grateful to the Lord for raising up others to share the joys and responsibilities of ministry. The Pastoral Assistant does not serve as one of the ordained elders and does not hold any governing authority in the church.

Bill Davis

Bill has been a faithful believer for over 40 years. He is a graduate of the Manna Bible Institute. Before retirement, he long worked as a Philadelphia Highway Construction Inspector, while simultaneously serving believers in the Philadelphia community for many years as a Bible instructor and discipler of men. He is also a regional presenter for Evangelism Explosion International. He has been faithful in community service, including soup kitchen ministry and Bible School teaching. Currently, he serves as our Deacon of Prison Ministry and Hospital Visitation. He also is active in community outreach events and as a Community Group Leader. He and his wife, Becky, have three children and eight grandchildren.

Deacons

Our Deacons are members of the congregation that have been recognized as mature believers in Christ by the pastoral staff and have been appointed to the leadership of a ministry within the church.

Steve and Joanne Burak

Children’s Ministry

(Promise Kingdom)

Email Steve | Email Joanne

Bill Davis