Meet the Team
While we have a devoted team of individuals who keep things running, we also pride ourselves on the virtues of Congregationalism, holding true that all members of the church are spiritually equal.
Interim Pastor Randy Kohls is a Wisconsin native and a lifelong Congregationalist. Pastor Randy was born in Sheboygan, where his family was active in Immanuel Evangelical Congregational Church (CCCC). Immanuel is where he came to faith in Jesus Christ, where he was confirmed, and where he first sensed a call to pastoral ministry.
As he was preparing to enter high school, his father's job led the family to relocate to Green Bay. Pilgrim Congregational became their church home, with his parents actively serving in various capacities, and where Randy, his sisters, and his brother, were active in the Pilgrim Fellowship youth ministry. Randy volunteered – twice – to deliver a "mini-sermon" on Youth Sunday. A graduate of Green Bay Southwest High School, he went on to attend UW-Madison, where he was active in the campus chapter of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and where he earned a B.A. in economics. On the recommendation of Pastor Terry Ragland, Randy applied to, was accepted by, and graduated with an M.Div., from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois.
He is also a graduate of the Congregational Foundation for Theological Studies (CFTS). Randy went back to school after a decade in pastoral ministry, earned a Th.M. in New Testament from Princeton Theological Seminary and is ABD from the University of Chicago Divinity School.
Randy pastored Congregational churches in Michigan, Connecticut, Illinois (two interim pastor positions), and finally back in Wisconsin, where he was pastor of Community Congregational Church in Kewaunee, for eleven years. In "retirement," Randy has served as secretary and Area Pastor for the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference (CCCC) fellowship of churches in Wisconsin, has filled the pulpit in various NACCC and CCCC churches in the state (and Davis, IL), and served as Acting Pastor at First Congregational Church, Mukwonago, while Pastor Kevin Clark enjoyed a six-month sabbatical.
In "retirement" he volunteers two days a week on the front desk at Freedom House Ministries, a shelter for homeless families in Green Bay. He is part of a Men's Bible Study on Saturday mornings and enjoys golfing with some of the guys from the group on Mondays in the summer. Randy loves reading in various area coffee shops, Greek grammar, family activities, the Dodgers … and most of all, Jesus.
Interim Pastor Randy Kohls
Licensed Lay Minister
Polly Bodjanac
Polly has been a licensed Lay Minister since 2013, having completed her training through the Wisconsin Congregational Association Lay Ministry and Leadership Program.
She sensed a call into ministry in 2007 when she began providing pulpit supply for PCC when our senior minister took his annual 4-week vacation. Her spiritual gifts are teaching and preaching, administration and leadership. She has been an alto in the chancel choir for the past 9 years and has held a variety of leadership positions in the 38 years she has been part of the PCC family.
Currently, she is the Administrator of the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches (NACCC) Lay Ministry Program. She has a passion for raising up leaders within the local church and equipping them to use their gifts to strengthen the church.
She lives in Allouez with her husband Mike. They have 3 grown children and 5 grandchildren.
Music & Choir Director
Dick Cayer
Dick began playing the piano at the age of 5 and began lessons at age 7. By the time Dick finished Junior High School, he had memorized the entire Methodist hymnal. His love of music led him into a variety of musical opportunities throughout his youth. He played for the Green Bay Recreation Department for kids' dance lessons at age 14. At 16, he became the organist at Zion Lutheran Church and was also Choir Director for Suamico Methodist Church.
When he was 18, he became the organist for PCC and was the first organist in the new church building. He remembers the symbolic “burning of the mortgage” just after the first year of the construction of the beautiful building designed in the style of Massachusetts architecture. At that time, choir practice was held at the home of Cliff Wall, Sr. Dick was very proud to be a part of the church and its rich history. When it was time for him to leave for college in Madison, the church presented him with a check to cover his first semester’s tuition.
In 2002, Pastor Gary Pierce approached Dick about returning as organist of PCC and he accepted. Although he has been the pianist/organist in many places throughout his lifetime, PCC is his favorite!