COMMITTEE STAFF
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Pastor Richard Sexton
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CEF Tri-Cities is currently looking for new: Vice Chairman and Bookkeeper
This is a volunteer, committee member position. If you love children and God and are good with QuickBooks, please prayerful consider joining us.
This is a volunteer, committee member position. If you love children and God and are good with QuickBooks, please prayerful consider joining us.
CEF is a global ministry reaching every corner of the world. National and USA headquarters are located in Warrenton, Missouri. Each state has a director who manages the chapters within that state. Our state office is located in Yakima. CEF of Washington currently has 15 active chapters.
Each local chapter is run by a committee of local Christian volunteers who meet monthly to review staff reports, and make decisions. All finances are handled by the committee and use of finances and other decisions are decided by majority vote of committee members. Their decisions are regulated by the mandates in the CEF's USA Operations and Procedures Manual. Each chapter within a state has a local director on staff to handle the administrative work, training, and leadership of staff and volunteers. (Some chapters are currently lacking directors)
Paid staff are missionaries in that they build relationships with other believers who believe in their calling and service and partner with them in prayer and finances. Each paid staff member must raise enough monthly donations to cover his or her salary and expenses. Donations made to CEF are tax deductible.
Each local chapter is run by a committee of local Christian volunteers who meet monthly to review staff reports, and make decisions. All finances are handled by the committee and use of finances and other decisions are decided by majority vote of committee members. Their decisions are regulated by the mandates in the CEF's USA Operations and Procedures Manual. Each chapter within a state has a local director on staff to handle the administrative work, training, and leadership of staff and volunteers. (Some chapters are currently lacking directors)
Paid staff are missionaries in that they build relationships with other believers who believe in their calling and service and partner with them in prayer and finances. Each paid staff member must raise enough monthly donations to cover his or her salary and expenses. Donations made to CEF are tax deductible.
Staff Bio's
Bradley Lemmon:
Bradley is 21 years old and is serving as the Local Coordinator (Director in Training) for the Tri-Cities chapter and has been volunteering with CEF for the last 7 years. He started in the CYIA program as a teenager teaching at 5 Day clubs in the summer. Bradley has a huge heart for teaching children The Gospel and those living in difficult homes. He is part of Desert Springs Covenant Church and is the leader of the children's church program of his church and part of the leadership team of the church. Last November Bradley went to the CEF headquarters in Missouri and got a 12-week extensive training on how to minister to children and is excited to follow where God is leading for CEF in the Tri-Cities area.
Pastor Richard Sexton:
Richard has lived in the Tri-Cities since 1978. He was pastor of Calvary Assembly of God in West Richland from 1980 to 1996. He has served at Prayer Watch Christian Center in Kennewick since 1998. At various times he has been co-pastor, lead pastor, and associate pastor. He has taken many youth groups on missions trips and camp trips. He has been on the Tri-Cities CEF Committee since 2015. Richard's appreciation of CEF originates with the first time he heard the gospel at age 5 in a Good News Club. Richard is also an engineer and has worked part-time and full-time at Hanford while serving in pastoral ministry. Richard has been happily married for 52 years and has 3 married children and 7 grandchildren.
Pastor Chris Haughee:
Rev. Dr. Chris Haughee, hailing from the Pacific Northwest, brings over three decades of diverse ministry experience to his roles. Beginning with camp counseling and traditional parish ministry, he has ventured into specialized realms such as trauma-informed ministry.
His journey led him to serve as a chaplain in a Montana-based residential facility for severely emotionally disturbed children from 2012 to 2020. During this period, he pursued advanced studies at Multnomah Biblical Seminary in Portland, Oregon, earning a Doctor of Ministry in Trauma-Informed Ministry. Relocating to Washington amidst the pandemic, he continued his pastoral and development work, settling in Prosser, his wife's childhood hometown. It was at this time that he got connected to Child Evangelism Fellowship, having served on the local committee in leadership since 2021.
In 2023, Chris transitioned into the role of Donor Development Manager at Mirror Ministries, where he focuses on advocating for minor victims of domestic sex trafficking, raising support, and fostering compassionate advocacy. Concurrently, he serves a small church in Richland, Washington, as a part-time pastor.
An adoptive father of two, Chris is deeply committed to advocating for foster and adoptive families' inclusion in local congregations' life and ministry. He is driven by a passion for guiding individuals towards discovering their God-given purpose and forging connections to a life of significance and a lasting legacy.
Ryan Delo :
Ryan was born in Yakima, WA. He is a husband to his beautiful wife Stephanie and father to 3 wonderful children; Emersyn, Skye and Elliot. He attended college at Spokane Falls Community College and finished at Warner Pacific University in Portland, OR. Ryan has been on the CEF Committee since 2023. He Currently lives in Pasco.
Jobs include: GE Avaition, Party Connection, Red Robin, REI Outdoors, Copiers Northwest, RDP Investments (real estate investor) and currently with Spotted Fox Digital Marketing. Ryan presently attends C3 Church in Kennewick and has since 2008. Ryan enjoys all things outdoors especially skiing, hiking, backpacking and boating.
Lee Walter:
Lee was raised on a farm in the Columbia Basin. Graduate from Connell High School, and
Washington State University. Married since 1980 with two daughters, and one
grandson. Lived in South Kennewick for twenty years, and for the last twenty four
years in West Richland. Jobs include: Teaching, Coaching, Real Estate Broker,
Hanford Patrol, and Health Physics Technician for almost 25 years. Volunteer work
includes: Coaching youth sports, Columbia Bible Church Sunday School
Superintendent, Precinct Committeeman, and working with Child Evangelism
Fellowship, the last fifteen plus years.
Loretta Almberg:
Wayne Collop -
Bradley is 21 years old and is serving as the Local Coordinator (Director in Training) for the Tri-Cities chapter and has been volunteering with CEF for the last 7 years. He started in the CYIA program as a teenager teaching at 5 Day clubs in the summer. Bradley has a huge heart for teaching children The Gospel and those living in difficult homes. He is part of Desert Springs Covenant Church and is the leader of the children's church program of his church and part of the leadership team of the church. Last November Bradley went to the CEF headquarters in Missouri and got a 12-week extensive training on how to minister to children and is excited to follow where God is leading for CEF in the Tri-Cities area.
Pastor Richard Sexton:
Richard has lived in the Tri-Cities since 1978. He was pastor of Calvary Assembly of God in West Richland from 1980 to 1996. He has served at Prayer Watch Christian Center in Kennewick since 1998. At various times he has been co-pastor, lead pastor, and associate pastor. He has taken many youth groups on missions trips and camp trips. He has been on the Tri-Cities CEF Committee since 2015. Richard's appreciation of CEF originates with the first time he heard the gospel at age 5 in a Good News Club. Richard is also an engineer and has worked part-time and full-time at Hanford while serving in pastoral ministry. Richard has been happily married for 52 years and has 3 married children and 7 grandchildren.
Pastor Chris Haughee:
Rev. Dr. Chris Haughee, hailing from the Pacific Northwest, brings over three decades of diverse ministry experience to his roles. Beginning with camp counseling and traditional parish ministry, he has ventured into specialized realms such as trauma-informed ministry.
His journey led him to serve as a chaplain in a Montana-based residential facility for severely emotionally disturbed children from 2012 to 2020. During this period, he pursued advanced studies at Multnomah Biblical Seminary in Portland, Oregon, earning a Doctor of Ministry in Trauma-Informed Ministry. Relocating to Washington amidst the pandemic, he continued his pastoral and development work, settling in Prosser, his wife's childhood hometown. It was at this time that he got connected to Child Evangelism Fellowship, having served on the local committee in leadership since 2021.
In 2023, Chris transitioned into the role of Donor Development Manager at Mirror Ministries, where he focuses on advocating for minor victims of domestic sex trafficking, raising support, and fostering compassionate advocacy. Concurrently, he serves a small church in Richland, Washington, as a part-time pastor.
An adoptive father of two, Chris is deeply committed to advocating for foster and adoptive families' inclusion in local congregations' life and ministry. He is driven by a passion for guiding individuals towards discovering their God-given purpose and forging connections to a life of significance and a lasting legacy.
Ryan Delo :
Ryan was born in Yakima, WA. He is a husband to his beautiful wife Stephanie and father to 3 wonderful children; Emersyn, Skye and Elliot. He attended college at Spokane Falls Community College and finished at Warner Pacific University in Portland, OR. Ryan has been on the CEF Committee since 2023. He Currently lives in Pasco.
Jobs include: GE Avaition, Party Connection, Red Robin, REI Outdoors, Copiers Northwest, RDP Investments (real estate investor) and currently with Spotted Fox Digital Marketing. Ryan presently attends C3 Church in Kennewick and has since 2008. Ryan enjoys all things outdoors especially skiing, hiking, backpacking and boating.
Lee Walter:
Lee was raised on a farm in the Columbia Basin. Graduate from Connell High School, and
Washington State University. Married since 1980 with two daughters, and one
grandson. Lived in South Kennewick for twenty years, and for the last twenty four
years in West Richland. Jobs include: Teaching, Coaching, Real Estate Broker,
Hanford Patrol, and Health Physics Technician for almost 25 years. Volunteer work
includes: Coaching youth sports, Columbia Bible Church Sunday School
Superintendent, Precinct Committeeman, and working with Child Evangelism
Fellowship, the last fifteen plus years.
Loretta Almberg:
Wayne Collop -