{"id":48,"date":"2015-05-14T00:09:48","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T04:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blessedhopechurch.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=48"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T19:23:14","slug":"leadership-and-staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blessedhopechurch.org\/wordpress\/welcome\/leadership-and-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership and Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>SENIOR PASTOR<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Glenn Rice<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Glenn has been a pastor for more than four decades, serving churches in New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts.&nbsp; He and his wife, Cindy, live in Benton. They are parents of three married sons and are blessed with eleven grandkids.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He holds a B.A. in Theology (Berkshire Christian College), a M.A. in Religion (Liberty Theological Seminary), and a DMin. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.&nbsp;(<a href=\"http:\/\/gcts.edu\">http:\/\/gcts.edu<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Glenn became the Senior Pastor of the church in December 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Executive Assistant<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Joann Bedillion<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Joann grew up at Blessed Hope Church and was regularly involved in the church&#8217;s children and youth ministries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She holds a B.A. in Youth Ministries and Biblical &amp; Theological Studies from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gordon.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gordon College<\/a> and has been active in church ministry both as a volunteer and as a staff member since her first summer as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lakesideaccamp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lakeside<\/a> camp counselor in 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joann joined the church staff in January 2013. She lives in Waterville with her dog Rosie and cat Sassy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Elders<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Pastor Glenn Rice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Curt Beveridge<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Josh Blackstone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elwood Ellis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alden Weigelt<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Diaconate<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Joann Bedillion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Renee Blackstone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peter Curtis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark Hanscom<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Josh Hughes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Derek Racine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lars Jonassen (Ministry Assistant)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SENIOR PASTOR Glenn Rice Glenn has been a pastor for more than four decades, serving churches in New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts.&nbsp; He and his wife, Cindy, live in Benton. They are parents of three married sons and are blessed with eleven grandkids.&nbsp; He holds a B.A. in Theology (Berkshire Christian College), a M.A. in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":25,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessedhopechurch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessedhopechurch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessedhopechurch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessedhopechurch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessedhopechurch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/blessedhopechurch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1427,"href":"https:\/\/blessedhopechurch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions\/1427"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessedhopechurch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessedhopechurch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}