Kyler Albert
STUDENT MINISTRY PASTOR
Kyler is passionate about walking alongside students as they grow in their relationship with God. His hope and prayer is that students begin to discover how God’s Word shapes their lives and impacts the world around them. He’s committed to partnering with parents to help their students know God and his Story in deeper, lasting ways. Kyler leads the student ministry team with a focus on equipping adult leaders, creating meaningful experiences, and helping students find their place in the church—all to guide them to follow Jesus for a lifetime.
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Laura-Paige Albert
CONNECTIONS ASSOCIATE/MINISTRY ASSISTANT
Laura-Paige leads our Connections Ministry, helping to both serve our church family and integrate newcomers on the weekends. In addition, Laura-Paige also supports our Impact Ministry by helping with planning, coordinating details, and administrative support. Laura-Paige is married to Kyler and has enjoyed living in the midwest since they moved here from Washington state in 2019.
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Lyndsey Baader
CONNECTIONS SITE LEADER
Lyndsey is a weekend presence in our Connections Ministry. She helps to lead the team as they seek to create a warm and hospitable experience for everyone who steps into Five Oaks.
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Dave Baar
IMPACT DIRECTOR
Dave is passionate about connecting Five Oakers with opportunities to share the good news of the Gospel through serving both locally and globally. As Impact Director, Dave uses these passions to build connections and partnerships between our church and people/organizations that are actively serving our community and the world in Jesus' name.
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Kelly Bauman
KIDS MINISTRY DIRECTOR
Kelly leads the kids’ ministry of the church, equips the congregation and those serving in kids’ ministry to bring the story of God to life. She recruits, develops, and inspires others to serve and lead in kids’ ministry (birth through fifth grade). Kelly loves to partner with parents and inspire them to be invested in every phase of their child’s life.
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Peg Benson
COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER / CAMPUS PASTOR ASSISTANT
Peg helps our church stay connected—both with each other and with God’s mission at Five Oaks.
She crafts our communications so people know what’s happening and how to get involved, and she helps people find meaningful connection through small groups. Peg also supports the campus pastor as they serve the Woodbury community together, inviting people to connect with God, deepen their faith, and impact the world.
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Emily Brewer
WORSHIP ASSOCIATE
Emily assists in the planning, executing, and leading of worship ministries in the church.
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Brian Burquest
CHIEF OF STAFF
Brian is responsible for supporting the Lead Pastor and guiding the work of the pastoral (and other) staff leaders. As Chief of Staff, Brian plays a critical role in coordinating and driving the strategic initiatives, managing key operations, and serves as a trusted advisor and confidante to the Lead Pastor.
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Jared Doran
PRODUCTION DIRECTOR / TECHNOLOGY & SYSTEMS DIRECTOR
Jared manages all aspects of production technology used for weekend services including lights, sound, and video in order to create an environment that encourages worship. He works to maintain these systems, develop new processes, and inspire volunteers to serve in worship tech. In addition to production technology, Jared works closely with the communications team on video production and the operations team as technology and systems director
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Dan Eggum
MIDDLE SCHOOL ASSOCIATE / KIDS MINISTRY ASSOCIATE
Dan works closely with our middle school students and our incredible team of adult volunteers as part of our student ministry program. Whether he's planning camps or equipping leaders to serve, Dan is enthusiastic about being part of what God is doing in the lives of our middle schoolers.
In addition to his work with our middle school students, Dan also serves in our Five Oaks Kids elementary ministry on the weekends. He values the opportunity to be a consistent and familiar face for our younger students as they prepare to transition into middle school.
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Jonathan Haage
CAMPUS PASTOR
Jonathan is passionate about getting people connected and helping them follow Jesus in those friendships. He wants to see others excitedly engage their gifts to serve the church and work for the common good in their everyday work. Jonathan has been on staff for over 18 years. He's married to Stephanie and has 3 kids, Jeremiah, Joshua, and Sara. He can talk endlessly about Jesus, board games, and music! (well, and Star Wars...)
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Liza Halverson
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATOR
Liza oversees all aspects of Five Oaks' business operations, including finance, insurance, service contracts, payroll, and employee benefits.
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Steve Johnson
SMALL GROUPS DIRECTOR
Steve is all about small groups: leading them, training others to lead them, and coaching leaders as they disciple their group members. Steve loves nothing more than helping people get connected to small groups so they can find community and gather around God’s word as they do life together.
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Stephanie Kiel
COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR
As Communications Director, Stephanie leads the team responsible for making communication happen at Five Oaks. She also creates all the major design pieces for Five Oaks and its ministries.
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Noah Larson
IMPACT INTERN
Noah is a rising senior interning as one of our Impact Interns this summer. In his ten weeks on staff with us, their projects will include the Slovakia Mission trip, helping out at middle school Camp Getaway, working with various local Impact partners, some internal Five Oaks staff projects, and helping to evaluate a new missions education course. Join us in praying for his summer.
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Isaac Lee
IMPACT INTERN
Isaac is a rising senior interning as one of our Impact Interns this summer. In his ten weeks on staff with us, their projects will include the Slovakia Mission trip, helping out at middle school Camp Getaway, working with various local Impact partners, some internal Five Oaks staff projects, and helping to evaluate a new missions education course. Join us in praying for his summer.
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Paget Leitch
KIDS MINISTRY ASSOCIATE
Paget assists in all areas of Five Oaks Kids. She is devoted to helping children grow and develop their relationship with Christ.
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Brooke Ramsey
STUDENT MINISTRY ASSISTANT
Brooke assists in all areas of student ministry. She is passionate about helping students grow and develop their relationship with Christ by championing many of the behind the scenes logistics to make student ministries happen each week. She also helps organize student events and camps throughout the year.
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Jakki Rasmussen
FACILITIES MANAGER
Jakki coordinates supplies and the work done by contractors and volunteers to keep the building and grounds clean and ready for use. She also serves as host for many groups that use our space.
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Elisha Redmann
IMPACT INTERN
Elisha is a rising senior interning as one of our Impact Interns this summer. In his ten weeks on staff with us, their projects will include the Slovakia Mission trip, helping out at middle school Camp Getaway, working with various local Impact partners, some internal Five Oaks staff projects, and helping to evaluate a new missions education course. Join us in praying for his summer.
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Kelsey Vang
CONNECTIONS MINISTRY ASSISTANT
As the Connections Ministry Assistant, Kelsey wants to make it as easy as possible for people to connect, engage, and find a place at Five Oaks. She is pretty nerdy about systems, so it's a joy for her to help at all points of connection: from following up after someone's first visit, to coordinating membership classes, and the many places in between. Kelsey also leads the Prayer Card Team, which is a ministry that sends prayer-filled cards to those in our church body who are in need of prayer.
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Toua (Tom) Vang
WORSHIP PASTOR
Tom leads the worship ministries at Five Oaks and equips, coaches and trains congregation members to use their musical and technical skills to bring glory to God with the gathered church. Whether it is for our weekend services, Student Ministries, or for Five Oaks Kids, Tom has a passion to draw out the untapped gifts of people and empower them to use them to lead the congregation in worship.
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Judy Visness
FINANCE ASSOCIATE
Judy is responsible for accounts payable, payroll, and most anything that has to do with records and reports with numbers.
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Jasmine Wesner
RECEPTIONIST
Jasmine is the first point of contact for our church during weekdays. She is in charge of greeting visitors and managing our office phone and email. She also helps provide administrative support to staff.
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H. Henry Williams
LEAD PASTOR
Leading a church that helps people come to know and ultimately fall more deeply in love with God and other people is Henry’s greatest passion. As a husband, parent, and grandparent, Henry is particularly interested in partnering with families so that the next generation will know and love God, living on mission for him. Henry earned degrees from The University of Northwestern—St. Paul, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and Boston University (Doctor of Ministry). Henry’s interests include pickleball, fly fishing, watching NFL football (especially the Vikings and fantasy football), hiking, boating, board games, and Cuban food. Henry grew up in a Cuban-American home in Miami and desires for Five Oaks to reflect the diversity of its community. If you’re thinking of checking out Five Oaks, he’d love to answer any questions you might have over a cup of coffee, so feel free to contact him.
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Kayleigh Allred
OAKS CHURCH KIDS MINISTRY DIRECTOR
Kayleigh’s family has been attending Five Oaks since 2021. Before moving to Minnesota in 2020, Kayleigh was a Kids Pastor at a multisite church in her home state of Indiana for over four years. She has a heart for bringing people of all ages closer to Jesus and a passion for helping parents be intentional about being the primary spiritual influence in their child’s life. Kayleigh is married to her 8th-grade sweetheart, Taylor, and is mom to two young boys - Miles and Oliver. When she can sneak in time, Kayleigh enjoys reading a good book, crafting, visiting the MN Arboretum, and spending quality time with friends and family.
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Henry Michael Williams
OAKS CHURCH LEAD/CAMPUS PASTOR
Henry Michael grew up in the area and is excited about the growth of both Five Oaks and Cottage Grove. With a passion for making disciples and fostering meaningful relationships, Henry is excited to lead this unique “slow plant” journey, transitioning from a multisite campus into an autonomous church in the coming years. He is joined by his wife, Holly, and their four children—Navy, Hank, Mack, and Bonnie—who are equally eager to embrace this new season of ministry. Outside of church-related activities, you’ll likely find Henry spending time with his family, reading a good book, fly fishing, cheering on the Vikings, or playing pickleball. The Williams family looks forward to building connections and growing together with the people of Cottage Grove.
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