Leadership

B. Gary Harris - Administrative Bishop

Bishop Harris hails from Tennessee where he was raised in the Church of God since childhood. He is a third generation member of our church. He graduated from Lee University in 1974 with a degree in Christian Education and continued a ministry that began earlier as a volunteer local church worker. Following his graduation, he served in several local churches as a staff member doing youth, Christian education, and music ministry. He also pastored churches in Mississippi, and served as District Overseer, and a member of several State Boards. He has served as guest speaker in several Prayer Conferences, Camp Meetings, and Christian education seminars. He and his wife have also done marriage enrichment seminars.

In 1981, he began state youth and Christian education ministry that took him to five states, including Mississippi, West Virginia, South Georgia, South Carolina, and North Georgia. After completing 25 years of youth work in 1998, he was appointed as the Administrative Coordinator for the International Evangelism and Home Missions Department in Cleveland, Tennessee, where he served until 2006 when he was appointed as the Administrative Bishop of Alaska/BC. He completed his Master of Arts degree in counseling from the Church of God Theological Seminary in 2007.

Dorlene Harris - State Women's Ministry President

Dorlene has served in various capacities in the area of Women’s Ministries on the local and state level. She served as a State Girls Clubs Coordinator for eighteen years. She has been guest speaker and musician at numerous local, state, and national women’s events and authored articles for various church and educational publications. She is the mother of three children, Kevin, Phillip, and Amy, all of which are involved in full-time ministry. She is also the grandmother (“Nana”) of eight precious grandchildren.

Dorlene attended Lee University and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education from Concord University and continued graduate studies at Valdosta State University. She taught public school music for eighteen years. She has a heart for God and a love for people.

David Queja - State Youth & Christian Education Director

David Queja is the State Youth and Christian Education Director for Alaska /BC and also serves as the Associate Pastor for North Anchorage Church of God. He has served on the Alaska/BC State Youth Board for 4 years, prior to becoming the director. He is actively involved in the state youth camps, ArcticFest, youth after-glows, and state, local and regional youth events. David has his bachelor’s degree in Business Management and Aviation Safety from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. He retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2002 and is currently employed as the Human Resources Manager for the Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration for Central Alaska. He was born and raised in Hawaii. He and his wife Rena have four boys, Preston, Pili, Makana, and Keahi.

Rena Queja - Girls Ministry Coordinator for Alaska/BC

Rena Queja is the Girls Ministries Coordinator for Alaska and British Columbia. Rena received her Ordained Minister’s license from the Church of God in 2003, and believes in teaching the Word of God through power and anointing. She is actively involved in state youth camps, ArcticFest, youth after-glows, and state, local, and regional youth events with her husband. She has served as a children’s pastor in Hawaii and Alaska, and has ministered in other states. She, like her husband, David, is a native of Hawaii. They have four children Preston, Pili, Makana, and Keahi. Rena believes that the most precious gift God has entrusted to us is our children. She is concerned with discipling their spiritual growth not just to their own children, but to the youth in the state of Alaska, to which God has called them.

Richard Green - Evangelism and Home Missions Director

Richard Green has been a pastor in Alaska for 29 years—ten years at Fairbanks and 19 years in Juneau. He has served as Evangelism and Home Missions Director for Alaska/BC for twenty years. Before coming to Alaska, he successfully planted and pastored two churches in South Carolina and also served as an Associate Pastor at the South Cleveland Church of God in Tennessee. He is a graduate of Lee University. He has been a speaker for Camp Meetings, revivals, Youth Camps, regional and state events and citywide events in Juneau. He served as a State Youth Board member in South Carolina, President of the South Carolina and Alaska Lee College Alumni Associations, Alaska/BC State Council Member, and the Chaplain for Lemon Creek Correctional Center in Juneau. He is the publisher of the Alaska/BC newsletter, “The Harvester”. His wife and partner in ministry is Linda. Their family, a son, Andrew, and his wife Tania and a daughter, Christa, and her husband Corey, reside in Juneau along with their families.

Linda Green - WM Evangelism Coordinator

Linda Green, grew up in Florida, attended Lee University, and married Richard Green in 1968. Since then she has been a partner in ministry with her husband for 40 years. She has been a pastor’s wife, a mother and a mentor to many women. In the local church she has served as Women’s Ministries President, teacher of all age groups, musician, motivator and encourager. She has led and been speaker for numerous women’s events. She has worked as a leader and teacher of the Church of God Christian School in Fairbanks, as Executive Assistant for National Marine Fisheries and is presently employed as financial assistant with the Transportation Security Administration. She has served in the Church of God in Alaska/BC as Evangelism Coordinator for 20 years and as a member of the Women’s Ministries Board.