Staff
Paul Williams, President
Paul S. Williams is the president of the Orchard Group, Inc., a church planting organization in New York that has planted over 50 churches in the Northeast. He has served with the organization since 1979, and has been the president and chairman since 1989.
Paul is also Editor-at-Large and a weekly columnist with Christian Standard, the leadership magazine of the Christian Churches. He also serves as head-writer and on-air host of the Worship Television Network, seen on over 70 TV stations throughout the United States.
Paul is the author of Laughter, Tears, and In-Between, and is a writer and editor of the Windows of Worship series of devotional books. He has spoken for numerous national and regional conventions and conferences, and serves as an adjunct seminary instructor.
Paul's wife Cathryn is a public school elementary teacher. Paul and Cathryn have three grown children:Jonathan, Jael, and Jana.
Brent Storms, Managing Director
Brent has been working with Orchard Group for over 10 years - first as a church planter and now as Managing Director. He planted Harbor of Hope Christian Church north of Boston in 1999. During his ministry there the church helped three staff members go on to become the founding ministers of additional new churches in the Northeast. The church also helped to start Lowell Cambodian Christian Church to minister to the 35,000 Cambodians living in the community.
Brent became the Managing Director of Orchard Group in 2004. In his current role, he recruits, equips, resources and serves church planters in New York and the Northeast. He also speaks regularly in churches across the country and teaches college and seminary classes in church planting and urban ministry.
Brent is a graduate of Ozark Christian College and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He serves on the Board of Directors for Restoration House Ministries (planting churches in the six New England states) and the Board of Directors for Exponential Network. He also serves on the Board of Stewards for the North American Christian Convention and on the Executive Committee for the Eastern Christian Convention.
Brent and his wife, Rhesa, and their two children live in New York City.
Danielle Dallaire, Business Manager
Danielle graduated from Salem State College with a BSBA in Management Information Systems. She joined the Orchard Group staff in 2004. What she enjoys most about her role as Business Manager is being able to help church planters impact the communities in which they serve.
She also serves as the Bookkeeper for the Exponential Conference (formerly know as the National New Church Conference).
Danielle is on the worship team at Harbor of Hope Christian Church; one of the churches planted by Orchard Group in 1999.
Danielle and her husband Nigel have been married for 8 years. After traveling around the country with Nigel, who served in the United States Marine Corps, they settled back home and now live in Lowell, MA, north of Boston.
Dave Smith, Development
Dave Smith graduated from the University of Michigan in 1981, and then served as an officer in the US Army at Ft. Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis, Indiana. Dave became a Christian at East 91st Street Christian Church in Indianapolis, and left Indiana to complete a Master of Divinity degree at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois.
In 1995 Dave became the founding pastor of CrossWay Christian Church in Nashua, New Hampshire. The congregation grew to 400 in size during his ministry. He then returned to East 91st Street Christian Church in Indianapolis to serve as Minister of Church Planting. During that time period he also became the Director of Development for Orchard Group.
In 2003 Dave became the professor of church planting at Ozark Christian College in Joplin, Missouri, while continuing to devote a portion of his time to development with Orchard Group, Inc.
Dave and his wife, Nancy, have three children: Kaitlin; Josh; and Amy.
Brent Foulke, RecruitmentBrent Foulke has been involved in church planting since 1991 when he and his wife Kay accepted the call of the Empire State Evangelizing Association to plant a new church near Albany, NY. In the fall of 1992, along with their 4 children and a staff of 3, Brent and Kay launched Christ's Church of the Capital District. In 2006 Brent resigned as Lead Pastor of this healthy congregation to begin full time work in church planting.
Concurrently, Brent has served as director, consultant, coach, and organizational executive for several church planting organizations. In his role as Vice-President of Field Operations for Orchard Group from 2001 through 2007, Brent developed 6 Regional Directors for Orchard and in 2006 took part in the 30th church plant with which he has had direct involvement.
Brent serves as a Director of the Church Planting Assessment Center, a preferred service provider for Orchard Group. CPAC has provided assessment for hundreds of church planting candidate couples and their sponsors for church planting projects around the world. In 2007 Brent became the Director for the National New Church Conference and Director of Special Services for Stadia East, a sister organization for Orchard. This transition morphed his role with Orchard to that of a consultant for recruitment, where Brent's relationships will be leveraged to fill the aggressive vision Orchard has for planting many new churches in the next 5 years.