Pastoral Staff & Church Personnel

• Daniel Lambert - Senior Pastor
• Joey Gardner - Associate Pastor
• Matthew Fitzwater - Associate Pastor
• Job Dittmer - Associate Pastor
• Andy McPeak - Associate Pastor
• Vicki Lambert - Music Director
• Lisa Strickle - Financial Secretary
• Kathy Van Someren - Pastors' Secretary

Daniel S. Lambert, Senior Pastor
Daniel is a native of Louisiana, but spent most of his formative years in Texas. He is blessed to have a long standing heritage of faith, coming from a Christian home. He grew up on a small farm in East Texas until the middle of grade school and then moved to the suburbs around the city of Houston, TX. He has a Bachelors degree from Baylor University in Waco, TX, a Masters degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, TX and a Doctoral degree from the Canadian Southern Baptist Seminary in Calgary, AB. Daniel has been the pastor here at Easthaven since 1991. Daniel is married to Vicki and they have two children. Daniel William and Adrianna. Vicki is an accomplished musician and serves in the church as our worship leader by coordinating all the music for our services. Their family enjoys camping, games, movie nights at home together, and travel. Daniel is an avid hunter and has a deep commitment to mission work around our state. The Lamberts have found their home here in Montana.

Joey Gardner, Associate Pastor
Pastor Joey was born and raised in Kalispell. He started attending Easthaven when he was in 6th grade. He graduated from Flathead High School in 1983. After graduating from the University of Washington with a degree in Mechanical Engineering Joey spent six years in the Navy. He was stationed in San Diego, Japan, Moscow (Idaho, not Russia) and served onboard a destroyer in the Gulf War. In 1993 Joey and Debby were married and they headed to California for seminary. While attending Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary Joey served as youth and family minister in Vallejo, California. Joey and Debby returned to Kalispell 1998 and Joey has been an Associate pastor at Easthaven since March of 1999. Joey and Debby have four boys; Caleb, Josiah, Jonathan & David.

Matthew Fitzwater, Associate Pastor
Pastor Matthew was born in Pasadena, CA. to Earl and Barbara Fitzwater, the second of three sons. Matthew was raised in the Kalispell area since the age of eight and has attended Easthaven Baptist since that time. He graduated from Flathead High school in 1988. Following high school graduation Matthew attended the University of Mary Hardin Baylor where he graduated with a degree in Psychology and a minor in Religion and later returned to get his Masters of Arts degree in Psychology. It was also at UMHB that Matthew met his wife, Christy whom he married in June of 1991. Matthew has worked for nine years for Western Montana Mental Health Center and started a private Christian counseling practice. Matthew and Christy have two children; Jayme and Caleb

Job Dittmer, Associate Pastor
Pastor Job was born and raised in Waterloo, IA. He and his wife moved to the Flathead Valley in 1993 and started attending Easthaven soon after. Job worked with the Technical Services (computer support) group at Plum Creek until they returned to the Midwest in 1998. His degree is in Computer Applications and Training. From 2001 until 2006 he worked for Lands' End (the catalog company) and managed staff development for their Technology area. He now puts his training and managerial experience to work by handling church administration and by helping new people get integrated into the right ministries. Job attends Luther Rice Seminary and is pursuing a Master of Arts in Leadership degree. Job and his wife have four children.

Andy McPeak, Associate Pastor
Andy is a relatively new addition to the Valley and is desperately trying to become a "true" Montanan. He spent the majority of his adolescent, high school and college years in Connecticut. He was blessed with an amazing college experience at Messiah College in Grantham, PA. There he earned his bachelor's in Business Administration. Following graduation he endured a 4-year transition period which included some time as a banker, working and ministering in Glacier National Park, directing a College Ministry program, and directing a Youth Missions Site on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Lame Deer, MT.

It is this journey that brought him to begin ministry here at Easthaven in November 2006. His main responsibilities include the direction and oversight of our Middle School Ministry and leading worship for our Sunday night service - e3.

In December 2007 Andy married his longtime friend Bekah. When Andy and Bekah are not at the church working on some aspect of the ministry they are most likely out hiking or enjoying the beautiful Montana outdoors in some other way.

Kathy Van Someren, Pastors' Secretary
Kathy was born and raised in northwest Montana, and other than going away for college and moving to Minnesota for one year, she has continued to make the Flathead Valley her home. Kathy met her husband Mike after he moved here from Minnesota. Together with their son, Matthew and their beagle, Bailey they enjoy hiking, mountain-biking, camping, fishing and canoeing. Kathy had worked as a church secretary previously both here in Kalispell and in Minnesota and enjoys combining her experience in graphic design with church ministry. Her family began attending Easthaven in the fall of 2006.