Kathy Strickman
Sunday Operations Coordinator

Kathy Strickman has been serving as the Sunday Operations Coordinator for Emmanuel Church since 2002. She lives near the church with her husband, Scott, and their two children. If you would like to help out on Sundays to ensure the church service runs smoothly, please contact Kathy at ops@emmanuelnyc.org.

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Mariane Lemieux
Choir Director

Soprano Mariane Lemieux hails from Montreal, Canada. She has sung major opera and oratorio roles as well as recitals in Canada, USA, Italy, Hungary and Sweden.

Mariane has directed the choir at Emmanuel since Spring 2008. She has extensive experience with choirs as soloist, as section leader and as conductor being familiar with different styles from worship and gospel going to all periods of the classical repertoire.

Mariane studied at the Montreal Music Conservatory, at the Manhattan School of Music and is currently a student at Stony Brook University for the Doctorate of Musical Arts. As a music educator, she teaches at Belle Arti Center for the Arts in Forest Hills and at the Crescendo Summer Institute for the Arts in Hungary.

Mara Torres
Office Coordinator

Baptized at Emmanuel in 2005, Mara is grateful to be a part of the Emmanuel community and happy to use her administrative skills to assist Emmanuel in its mission. She is officially a member of Uptown Community Church where she is the Prayer Coordinator. She works afternoons at the Emmanuel office in the Interchurch Center. Stop in and say hi to her if you’re in the neighborhood.

Justin Chao
Children's Ministry Coordinator

Justin was born and raised in Queens, then moved to Long Island in high school, where he attended Syosset High, home of alumni Natalie Portman, Idina Menzel and Adam Pascal [his brother and Natalie were classmates! Zoiks!] He received his BA in East Asian Studies and Educational Studies at Colgate University [no, they don't make their own toothpaste there] and his MS in Early Childhood & Elementary Education at Bank Street School of [Progressive & Controversial] Education. God started his journey in youth & children's ministry in YoungLife where he met his disciple Anthony [who was a groomsman at his wedding 8 years later]; since then, he's served as a youth leader, Sunday school teacher, and summer camp coordinator. His smarter and better looking other half, Carol, is a domestic engineer/biblical counselor; they live in Westchester with their chubby-cheeked daughter Verity. They enjoy eating, cooking, hiking, surfing, reading, and church living. Justin is an aspiring unpublished author who has not yet written anything.