GCC Kids

Patty Deiter serves as Children’s Ministry Director at Grace Community Church. After 33 years in public education, Patty now combines her love for kids and teaching and her passion for serving the Lord in ministry to help kids grow to know and follow Jesus – for life! Watching kids develop a love for Jesus and grow in their faith along with supporting and equipping families and volunteers makes serving as GCC’s Children’s Ministry Director, her dream job. Thankful and blessed!

Patty is also involved in the GCC Women’s Ministry and enjoys singing with the 8:00 worship team on occasion. Patty graduated from Taylor University and participated in the Masters of Ministry program at Lancaster Bible College.

Katie Wieand serves as the Assistant Director of Children’s Ministry and Director of Outpour Kids/Teens. She is passionate about investing in the talents God has entrusted to each of His children (Mt. 25:14-30) in such a way that they develop into skills, which God will ultimately use for His glory (Ps. 33:3).

Katie is married to Matt, a science teacher at Martin Meylin Middle School. They met on a blind date mini-golfing while Katie was between two out-of-state opera contracts. She thinks God made a “hole in one” that day and she won the prize. They have three children, Audrey, Eileen, and Derek, and are the American host parents of Promise Chen. Katie has a Master of Music in Opera Performance from The Boston Conservatory at Berkley and a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Belmont University. She feels blessed to be the owner and instructor of Wieand Vocal Studio since 2004.

Marisa serves as Saturday Night Children’s Coordinator. Marisa loves working with children at GCC and enjoys the non-stressful pace of GCC. She really enjoys being involved in the creation of a whole new ministry. During the day, Marisa works in a hospital laboratory so she enjoys the difference of pace that GCC brings! In her free time, she loves to cook, read, and play board/card games.