Jack and Sharon each accepted the Lord as their Savior as a child. They met at Bible College, were married a few years later, and will have been happily married for 20 years in 2025. Due to Jack’s job working for the government, they have lived all over the country having faithfully served in local churches. Over the years, Jack has taught children in Vacation Bible School and Sunday School, and he was blessed to lead a small congregation in the Over 60 Sunday School class at their last church in Florida. They moved to the Hanover area in late 2021 and joined Calvary Bible Church in 2022. Jack currently serves one month per quarter in the nursery. He feels one of his greatest gifts is encouraging others. Jack and Sharon are puppy raisers for Susquehanna Service Dogs, and you may see them with their puppy around the church.

After some rebellious teenage years, Chris “bottomed out” in drug rehab at the age of 19 and saw the emptiness of sin. By reading his Bible, he was struck by the demonstration of God’s love in providing a Savior in Jesus Christ to forgive his sins (Romans 5:8). He trusted in Christ and began growing in Jesus while at Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College), where he graduated in 2002. There he met Jessica and they married in 2005. Jessica grew up in a Christian home and trusted Christ at a young age. Chris and Jessica have been members of Calvary Bible Church since the early 2000s. They currently live in Spring Grove, where Chris works remotely for a medical journal publisher and where Jessica homeschools their four children (Isaiah, Sarah Grace, Benjamin, and Jedidiah). Chris is a member of the Men’s Ministry, enjoys singing in the choir, and he and Jessica coach the Awana quizzing team. He also plays in an adult soccer league in Lititz. Jessica loves to garden, cook, decorate, and create all types of art projects.

A 1949 native of Tacoma, Washington, Mike Hokkanen is well traveled. He has lived in Washington, Oregon, California, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, France, Germany and Pennsylvania.  A lover of languages, he studied French in elementary school, German in high school, and Russian in college and the United States Air Force where he served as a Russian interpreter. Of these, he keeps Russian as a “hobby”, losing most due to non-use. Mike made the most important decision of his life to become a follower of Jesus Christ in January of 1971. Seven months later he married his girlfriend, Mary Knapp, who had also accepted Christ. Together, they raised two girls and a boy and hosted exchange students from 10 different countries. The idea, in his words, was to share the love of Christ while enriching their own children with the culture of other nations. At CBC, Mike plays in the orchestra, attends two small groups, enjoys Precept Bible Study and Dead Preachers Society, helps with Ambassador planning, and assists Laura Sterner with children’s musicals.  Sadly, in January of 2025, Mary passed. While it was unexpected, Mike takes great comfort in the knowledge that she was in a right relationship with our all-loving Savior.  At age 76, it is Mike’s desire to stay busy with “things of God.” There is clearly no illusion about the glamor of being an elder. It is hard work that can be very difficult at times. Mike has a good sense of humor and has been described as “very approachable.”