Pastors and Staff
Office Administrator/Discipleship Coordinator - Patti Butcher
Patti comes to us from WVa and moved to Anchorage in June of 2004. Her first visit to Anchorage and Anchor Park was as a
Volunteer in Mission where she met her now husband Harry Ricker. Patti handles all the administrative aspects of the church office
including its finances.
She has been on staff since September of 2004 and will be glad to help you with all of your church questions.
Director of Music Ministries - David Hagen
David Hagen grew up in Anchorage and has been involved in church music most of his life. He directed the choir at Anchor Park in 1995-96 and is greatly looking forward to returning!
In addition to church music work David has been a beginning orchestra and band teacher in the Anchorage School District for fourteen years. He also conducts the Alaska Chamber Singers.
David's wife, Kathy, is a private piano teacher and singer. They have two sons: Noah recently graduated from South High School and Evan will be a 7th grader at Mears Middle School next year.
In their free time the Hagens enjoy skiing, backpacking, hunting, fishing and spending time at their cabin.
Youth Directors
Our names are Chris and Sheri Huettmann. We have been married for 19
years. We have 2 children; Jaxon is 10 and Jarrett is 7. We came to Alaska in June 2009.
Chris is a MSgt in the Air Force and has been in for 20 years. Sheri works for the Anchorage School District.
We were very active in our last church and really enjoyed working with the youth. Our main goal for the Youth
is to build the program to a larger crowd and to encourage the youth to build their own relationship with God.
Due to peer pressure, it is very common for kids to become distant from God during their youth years.
We feel that it is our responsibility as parents and adults to guide them back on the path back to God.
We are very excited about starting a youth program at Anchor Park UMC and hope that the congregation will be involved with us.
If you have any suggestions or ideas please feel free to contact us.
In His name,
Chris and Sheri Huettmann
Our Pastors
Senior Pastor -Jon Disburg
Both Leila and Jon are from the Iowa Conference
Leila received her Master of Divinity in 1993 from Saint Paul School of Theology, Kansas City, MO and Jon received his Master of Divinity in 1987 from Boston University School of Theology, Boston, MA.
The Disburgs have two daughters: Meghan is the general manager for 6 Subway stores in the Des Moines area and Ashley is finishing her sophomore year at Iowa State University, majoring in Civil Engineering.
Leila and Jon have been co-pastors for a rural parish in Iowa and were founding pastors for the parish that brought together three very different churches who shared the same school system. Later they were co-pastors in West Des Moines, Iowa.
Leila enjoys hiking, camping, singing and sewing. Recently she has been busy making scrapbooks and wedding plans, both Meghan and Ashley are engaged to be married. Lelia has served as chair for Annual Conference worship, chair of Academy for New Ministry Development, coordinator for district leadership events, and candidate mentor and guide.
Jon enjoys hiking, camping, reading, singing, playing guitar and listening to blues, jazz and classical rock music. Jon has served as adjunct faculty for philosophy and ethics in community colleges. Jon’s conference activities include: Board of Pensions, restructuring task forces, leadership trainer, stewardship specialist, candidate mentor and guide, and Board of Ordained Ministry.
Leila has accepted a full time position within the Alaksa UM Confernece as Director of Connectional Ministries.
Contact: jdisburg@gmail.com or 907-250-8573
Associate Pastor -Jenny Smith
Jenny has been appointed to serve Anchor Park and East Anhorage UMC's as the Associate Pastor begin July 1, 2010
Jenny graduated with a Master’s of Divinity this May from United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Oh. She served as a student associate pastor and youth pastor the last three years at Stillwater UMC. She enjoy camping, traveling, reading, game nights, photography and computers.
Jenny’s husband, Aaron, got a Bachelor’s in Music Management from Florida Southern College and received an associate’s degree in Computer Information Systems this spring. Aaron plays guitar, drums and led the worship band at Stillwater. Aaron loves electronics, motorcycles, music, golf, camping and woodworking.
They have two dogs, Callie and Zoe.
Jenny writes “I look forward to serving and living among you. May God use us in new and creative ways to love the people of Anchorage, Alaska
