Meet our Staff
Senior Pastor
Senior Pastor
Senior Pastor, Rev. Derek Robinette
Pastor Derek joined CUMC in the summer of 2021. He graduated in 2010 from Louisville Seminary and has 21 years of ministry experience. This experience includes ten years in full-time youth ministry and eleven years as a pastor and church-planter. For fun Derek likes UK Sports, outdoors and training for triathlons.
Tina Rose
Preschool Director
Tina and her husband Doug both graduated from the University of New Hampshire. She started working at the preschool in 2011 when her youngest child went to kindergarten. She took over as preschool director in May 2014. Tina has worked as an elementary school teacher in Ohio, South Carolina and at Crestwood Elementary.
Pastor Russ Broomell
Assistant Pastor of Adult Discipleship
Russ has been exploring ministry for over 20 years, leading adult and youth small groups and Bible studies, teaching, preaching, and leading worship. A life-long learner, in 2020 he started creating small group studies and has published his first. He brings an open and honest approach to ministry, meeting people where they are, and encouraging and equipping them to follow God to wherever God is leading them. His favorite part of the ministry is seeing God change people from the inside out. He views ministry (and himself) as a work in progress. Russ and his family have been members of CUMC since 2019.
Ismara Mackenzie
Director of Hispanic ministry
Ismara is a Daughter of Abba, driven by the calling of serving and bringing souls to Jesus Christ. She has been saved since she was 17 years old and has been involved in God's works ever since. Serving at a district level in her homeland of Cuba to later serve as a Pastor, eventually serving at a Hispanic Ministry in Louisville, KY from 2010-2019. She is fearful of the Lord and His plans for her in this next season of her life, and she is excited to serve and grow in faith alongside Crestwood United Methodist's congregation.
Neal Green
Director of Music Ministries
neal@crestwoodmethodist.com
Neal has been involved in church music for more than twenty years, and has a Master of Music from Southern Seminary. He is an accomplished violinist, fiddler, and conductor, but loves empowering the worship leaders in his ministry. Neal is married to Layne, and they have three children. Neal enjoys books, movies, and Kentucky Wildcats basketball.
Connor Berg
Youth & Young Adult Minister
Connor is a graduate of Olivet Nazarene University with a degree in Pastoral Ministry and recently finished his Master of Divinity at Asbury Theological Seminary.
Debbie McBurney
Bookkeeper
Jenna Tackett
Communications and Administration
Jessica Bradley
Children's Minister
Dena Powell
Hospitality and Meals
Rick Farrow
Maintenance Director
Connie Boarders
Accompanist