Staff

Pastor Ben Cloud is Lead Pastor and Teaching Pastor at Amadeo.  Ben is married to Mandy and they have four beautiful (at least to them) children.

Ben graduated from Northern Arizona University with a BA in English, an MA in Applied linguistics and served as a High School English teacher for five years. Ben is a certified K-12 Principal and in certified in Educational Leadership.  After his teaching years he then worked in software development with Pearson and General Dynamics where he helped test and develop software for another nine years.  While he worked as a software engineer, Ben was the Student Ministries pastor at Vineyard Community Church for five years when he felt God calling him to plant Amadeo Church. (Truth is, the staff at VCC came to Ben and told him that he  was who they felt was called to plant a church.)  Ben completed his Masters of Ministry with St. Stephens University while also planting and growing Amadeo Church.  He has been pastoring AMADEO church for 12 years and helped a partnership plant a church in Tanzania.

Ben hopes to plant 40 churches in 40 years, but his prayer request to God is to plant the first one in the states by 2020.

Contact Pastor Ben at ben@amadeochurch.com

Arturo (Art) and Valerie help with Sunday Services, Youth Group, Coffee Shop, Online Services, at the farm and a thousand other ways.  AMADEO is so thankful to have them working with us.

Arturo is now an associate pastor at AMADEO - primarily helping with Sunday services - and everything else under the sun.

Sherri is our director of the music ministry.  She helps lead and organize the worship team, audio team, and visual team.  She also mentors and disciples developing worship leaders.

Jeremy is an elder and a beloved sunday school teacher.  Jeremy is instrumental in helping the church with financial priorities and occasions of conflict/resolution.   

Jeremy & Sherri lead a beautiful family of five children.  They have hosted several life groups over the years with topics including Alpha, Phillipians, and Marriage.  They are often seen serving the church in other ways also such a clean up, special projects, and even at the farm.   

For more information about worship ministry contact Sherri  sherri.giguere7@gmail.com

Nate and Robin have been Serving at AMADEO in various capacities including children's and youth ministry, worship minsitry, and with local and global missions for over four years.  Their family does ministry all over the country hosting VBS events and traveling in Mexico and in Germany.

Pastor Nathaniel And Cassandra are currently planting a Vineyard Church in Bend, Oregon - contact us to see how you can help if you are in the Bend, Oregon area and want to learn more.

Gale works in the technology industry and is married to Lawrence.  Lawrence has helped out in hospitality for as long as he has been there.

Gale enjoys shepherding hearts, and is one of our champion in women's ministry, evangelism, mercy, and outreach.

Ian is a math teacher by trade, a dad of five and married to Kim.

He is the bi-vacational elder/pastor. He has lead, hosted, and assisted with home groups and helped spawn many different home groups. He has been a long-term major supporter of Pastor Ben, and when difficult situations arise he is fearless, gentle and willing to tackle whatever needs to be done in a tactful and godly way.

Contact Pastor Ian at ian@amadeochurch.com

Shelly and her husband Jon work with  RE:STORE, Vineyard Community Center, The Coffee Shop, the Pregnancy Center, and help encourage evangelism.

Louise is married to Steve Bowman and they have amazing kids who serve in our youth.  Louise and Steve have helped with teaching, greeting, Sunday cleanup, prayer and a million other servant-leader activities.  Louise also works with the pregnancy center.

Louise is gifted at caring for women in our Church and empowering them for what God has for them.

Vu is a financial auditor with a global accounting firm and leads a beautiful family of five children with his wife Amy.

Vu was integral in planting our church and he and Amy have helped out leading home groups, mentoring young marrieds, and leading in many ways.

Darrell Kennedy has been at AMADEO for most of the years it has existed.  Darrell's wife Angie and two kids have done a plethora of simple and humble services at AMADEO, including:  Sunday School, Catalyst Kids, Facilities, Sunday Snacks, Parents of Teens, Youth group, and men's and women's ministry.  Darrell is Elder over facilities and Angie is a deacon.

Cheryl is a champion of prayer, has hosted and lead small groups with her husband, and past women's ministries leader.  Gary is lead deacon over greeting services.  They have three amazing daughters and were key planters at the church from the very beginning.

Annah Cloud has volunteered in the coffee shop since she was old enough to drink coffee.  She plays keyboard on the worship team, helps with slides, subs for Mrs. Mandy in the Children's department.  She helps with a few admin tasks and is getting married in March to Josh Giguere.  She is studying at ASU.

Lacey is the children's director.  She is an amazing servant leader. Nick is our IT specialist and serves us with putting together our live stream sunday mornings.

This family is an integral part of the AMADEO community. They help in so many ways. They help run and teach co-op's in our facility and fill in the gap through out the week and on Sunday. 

We are thankful to have them!

John helps with many things around the community and some of those things are Men’s Bible Study on wednesday mornings, Men's Breakfast and the current Leadership Book Study. 

Ivan and Kristal serve us in many ways and one of those is serving as chief evangelist to Northern Arizona. Serving from Joseph CIty to Holbrook, Snowflake/Taylor to Pinetop. 

Down in here in Queen Creek they help with set up of sunday services, childrens minstry, and many other ministries. Kristal is a prayer warrior and serves us in our Deep Healing Prayer.

See Taylor Snowflake WEBSITE HERE