Meet the Leaderhip Staff & Team Restoration Church is blessed to have these individuals a part of the team.  Each of them bring a passion and excitement to the ministries, the office and each other that help make Restoration Church who we are.   Paul Aragon Senior Pastor Paul Discovered love and marriage in Colorado Springs 12 years ago! He and his wife Melanie have three children, Caden, Arlee and Ava. Paul completed a Church Ministries degree in 1992, from Southeastern University, in sunny Florida. In 1993, he served as a youth minister in Colorado Springs. In 1999, Paul and Melanie pioneered a church in Fort Collins called Timberline Old Town. Then in 2005, Paul took some time off from full time ministry to attend Fuller Theological Seminary where he completed a Master's of Theology Degree. He is thrilled to be serving as lead pastor here at Restoration Church. Paul loves the Denver Broncos and pretty much any sport that requires contact! He is a coffee connoisseur and thoroughly enjoys living in Colorado!   Dave Johnston Associate Pastor Connections and Community Dave and his wife, Kristine, met on a ski slope in Austria and have been on an adventure ever since. This adventure has taken Dave through 20 years of serving our country in the US Army-his wife also served for seven years. During this time He and Kris had 3 wonderful children: Jessie, Mandy, and Zach who are now in their teens and early twenties. In the late 1990's Dave felt the call of God to pursue full-time, pastoral ministry. Over the last 10 years Dave has followed that call through involvement in multiple aspects of ministry leadership particularly in the area of small groups. While Dave has led numerous small groups of all shapes and sizes, his greatest strengths are in strategic development, personal discipleship, and training current and future leaders. Continuing in his passion to disciple and connect people, Dave completed his Bachelor's Degree in Pastoral Ministries and Christian Counseling from the Nazarene Bible College in 2006. He and his family have been attending and serving at Restoration Church 2005 and wouldn't have it any other way! Dan Martinez Associate Pastor Worship and Media Arts Dan, the resident blues harpist, met is wonderful bride, Diane, while shredding the disco carpet and swept her off her feet in '82!  He has 2 wonderfully grown children, Danielle, who brought he and his wife to know Christ, and Nicholas, the musical and creative genius.  Dan is a graduate of Colorado Christian University with a B.A. in Computer Science and an emphasis in Christian Leadership.  Dan's passion is music and he leads an incredible team of musicians every sunday and on special worship events around the city.  If there was ever a popcorn connnoisseur he'd be it, consuming a minimum of 1 bag every evening along with a pound of salt.  He enjoys camping, playing guitar, listening to blues and watching the Discovery Channel. Diane Martinez Executive Assistant Diane has been at Restoration since February 2002 and came on staff in June 2003.  She is married to Dan Martinez, Restoration's Worship Pastor.  Both committed their lives to Jesus at the same time after being invited to attend by their daughter who was only 13 years old at the time.  Since then, it has been quite a journey!  Diane is a graduate of Colorado Christian University with a B.S. in Organizational Management and an emphasis in Christian Leadership.  She is the nucleus of this whole operation and whom we've learned to call "Mama" because she takes care of everything!  Diane enjoys movies, vacations, being with her family and loves her Chai Tea from Starbucks!     Joe Pierce Audio & Visual Logistics Joe is the veteran musician of Restoration Church playing professionally since he was 15 and now teaching music out of his home studio and serving on the worship team here.  He was raised in Chicago and has always been in the music scene playing at local venues all over town and finally came to Colorado to continue his music performance streak and quickly fell in love with the state and has been here ever since.  Here at the church Joe has a passion to add life to worship services by providing the congregants with a sonic flood audio goodness.   When Joe isn't busy giving lessons or worrying about why the sound isn't working, he is probably stretching his back in the arts of Yoga and Pilates excercises or rumbling the streets on his Honda motorcycle.     Deborah Hendrix Events Coordinator Treasurer Deborah is the daughter of Rev. Edward and Mrs. Donna Wright, Jr. of Chicago, IL.  She is the oldest of three children.  She has been married to Charles for 19 years and has 2 beautiful daughters, Catherine and Danielle.  Deborah has a daily "to do" list from 8-12 much bigger than most peoples lists for the week!  Here at the church she serves as Treasurer, Events Coordinator, Cafe Director, Board Member and singer on the praise team.  Outside of church she is the President of Harrison School District 2 Board and Springs Early Colleges, owns her own Training & Consulting Business, Customer Speacialist for Alpine Technology Corporation, Instructs for Dale Carnegie and so much more!  When she isn't running around she enjoys sleeping which is well understood.