Dino & DeLynn Rizzo // Lead Pastors

Dino and his wife DeLynn started Healing Place Church in 1993 with the single focus of being a healing place for a hurting world. HPC has been named one of America’s Top 25 Most Innovative Churches - a reflection of his overwhelming drive to reach the unreachable and to engage with others to show God’s love to the poor and hurting - wherever they are. Dino & DeLynn have 3 incredible children, McCall, Dylan and Isabella.

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Johnny Green // Campus Pastor

Johnny is the Campus Pastor at our Highland Campus, and oversees the day-to-day functions of the campus and is known as Johnny “Baywatch” Green.

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Angie Bellard

Angie is Pastor Dino’s assistant. She takes care of his daily schedule, assists with his travel schedule and anything and everything he needs done. She is a germaphobic, Lysol lover and proud of it. She has the two most adorable twin grandsons in the world and is Andrea Bocelli’s #1 fan!

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Lance LeBlanc

Lance is one of our Pastors at our Highland Campus, and oversees the day-to-day functions of the campus. He is most famous for his pin-point accuracy when hunting with bow and arrow.

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Katherine Prudhomme

Katherine is Lance LeBlanc’s assistant and takes care of anything and everything that he needs done. When she is not assisting Lance, she likes to take long walks around the HPC lake with her wonderful husband. 

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Vicki Ohlerking

Vicki assists with Kingdom Builders and serves on Pastor Dino’s team. Her favorite vacation spot is Disney World. 

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Jeffery Rentz

Jeff serves Pastor Dino on his team, and helps lead our awesome HP Men. He has also filled in as a drummer one time (and only one time) at a College Service. He lost the beat and could not redeem himself so he ended up just lifting his hands worshipping and hoping no one would notice he was a fraud.

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Marc Cleary

Marc Cleary assists Pastor Dino in the area of Guest Services, Kingdom Builders, Travel and Calendar Planning.  In addition, he helps coordinate special projects as they come up. He is a hopeless Notre Dame Fighting Irish football fan held captive in LSU land by fanatic Tiger fans.

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Stacey Orihuela

Stacey assists Marc Cleary in guest services, taking care of everyone from guest speakers, to small groups from other churches. We believe, “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! We have blessed you from the house of the Lord.” Psalms 118:26. Don’t be jealous, but Stacey is God’s favorite.

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Judi Davis

Judi is the receptionist for the pastoral and administrative offices.  She serves on the guest services team and tech team. She loves LSU football and baseball. Judi is very competitive but not athletic.

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Katie Fontenot

Katie assists Pastor Dino, DeLynn and their family. She also assists with women’s ministry and a little bit of everything else too. She is the funniest person she knows…no assistance needed there. Katie is really good at speaking in foreign accents.

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Lynn Ray

Lynn serves on the Highland Campus team and helps with all the details for this campus and the weekend services. Lynn’s middle name is Osborne.

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Robin Rhodes

Robin serves as Pastor Johnny Green’s assistant and oversees Connect Groups for the Highland Campus. She also coaches HP Singles and compiles statistics for all campuses, but she finds her greatest fulfillment in crossing the last item off of a long to do list!

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Josh Bergeron

Josh serves on our Highland Campus Team. He oversees volunteers for weekend services and helps with the daily activities of that campus. Byrd only eats sandwiches shaped in triangles.

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John Phelps

John serves on the Highland Campus Team and assists with the day-to-day operations for this campus and the weekend services. John and his wife have triplets!

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Alliece Cole

Alliece serves on the Highland Campus Team. She is also involved in fighting against human trafficking. Ms. Alliece’s favorite snack is an Easter Egg Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup.

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Claudia Berry

Claudia helps people, ministries, and campuses with strategic planning and development. She also is a grant writer for the church to help the community. She is also very good at losing things. If you find a missing set of keys, check with her. They probably belong to her.

225.753.2273 // .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) // @claudiaberry

Harmony Head

Harmony does it all, ask anyone!! Well not quite…but really, ask anyone about anything and you will mostly likely hear, “Go ask Harmony about that, she will know” ~ from office supplies to weddings to hosting the greenroom, making perfect bacon or baking perfect cinnamon rolls to wrapping a gift or arranging flowers to serving the community. Don’t know where to find Harmony well…not to worry you will find her everywhere you go!!!

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Michelle Gros

Michelle leads a guest service team that connects 1st time guests and those who are not yet connected to the life of the church and connect groups. She also facilitates the HPConnect dinner which is to connect 1st time guests and those not connected to a connect group.  Behind the scenes, Michelle loves being a mom and can beat anyone in a sunflower seed-eating contest. 

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Kristin Thibodeaux

Kristin works on the Highland Campus team assisting with the details of this campus. She works on the connect team getting guest connected to the life of the church. Kristin shops only at Whole Foods.

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Ed Firor

Ed serves as the facilities assistant. He oversees the set up and tear down for every service and event.  He oversees all property maintenance at HPC. To the 40 and under staff members he is better known as Pops.

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Cindy Kabzinski

Cindy serves on HPC’s facilities team and works hard to make sure all of our buildings look excellent on a daily basis.

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Blake Prudhomme

Blake works on our facilities team and makes sure you have a seat when you get to church. He also works with our audio team and makes sure you can hear the service. Blake fell in love with a picture of a girl so he married her.

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Mark Mclaughlin

Mark works on our facilities team and keeps the HPC campus looking excellent on a daily basis. Mark tries really hard to be a neat freak but he is not good at it.

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Jordan Gautreau

On Sunday, Nov. 7, 2010, Jordan Michael Gautreau passed from this life to an eternal life and is now seated next to his heavenly Father. In Jordan’s 22 years of life, he served and loved others in the name of Christ, his loving Savior. As a Healing Place Church family member and staff employee, his work in the ministry included numerous community outreaches and missions, youth ministry, and reaching the world for Christ, by serving the one. Jordan will be missed for his time with us, but in his death he will reach far more than the one.

Jordan is survived by a large, loving and extended family, including his mother, Paula Gautreau Crowe, father, Kenny Gautreau, loving sister, Ashlyn Gautreau Greene and her husband, Mitch, stepmom Meleé Gautreau, and stepdad, Glenn Crowe. Also survived by his grandparents, Sue and Wayne Sheets, Albert and Ginger Roussel, Garney and Eleanor Gautreau, Leslie and Katsy Scobel and Carl and Janie Crowe; and great-grandparents, Rita and Jerry Scholz and Veiko Pollanen. Jordan was also survived by numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, as well as numerous friends and a large Healing Place Church family. Jordan was preceded in death by his great-grandparents, Ben and Bertha Babin, Albert M. Roussel, Margie and Guy Murphy and Eddie and Emma Gautreau.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be sent to Healing Place Church for the Dream Center, where Jordan’s love and work to help others in the name of Christ can live on. Healing Place Church, 19202 Highland Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70809.

Jason Ryder

Jason is one of our worship leaders at HPC. He helps lead our music ministry. He also oversees the products and resources in the Mission Café & Bookstore. Jason used to be a famous rock star with a band called 40 Day Fast.

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Tiffany Dupree

Tiffany oversees the Mission Café & Bookstore. She takes care of all of the resources for the HPC and guest speakers. Tiffany once dressed up as Barbie and signed autographs for little kids and posed for pictures.

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Steve Ware

Steve serves in the HP Kids Department. He helps oversee the weekend services and all that happens during the week in HP Kids. One of Steve’s happiest moments in life is when the Saints won the Super Bowl!

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Gayla Ware

Gayla serves in the HP Kids Department. She helps oversee the weekend services and helping administratively during the week. Gayla is one of the sweetest people you will ever meet!

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Jamie Foster

Jamie works with HP Kids as the Nursery Director for kids ages 6 weeks through Pre-K.  She has been involved in this amazing ministry for almost 8 years and loves both the children and their parents.  Each child that visits HP Kids will experience the love of Jesus through the hands of our loving staff and volunteers. Maybe she relates to kids so well because whenever she is nervous or mad, she begins to crack up laughing.

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Christina Millet

Christina works with HP Kids from ages 6 weeks to Pre-K and is the Registration Director for weekend services. Every day she gets to reach children and their families…what a humbling honor. She loves welcoming new families to HPC and hopes that their experience with us brings a feeling of belonging. She is mom to three beautiful, energetic girls.

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Shaun Ray

Shaun is the Athletic Director, and oversees the children’s and adult athletic programs here at Healing Place Church.  Our athletic program is an outreach with the purpose of introducing families to Christ through athletics. Shaun’s goal in life is to look like Josh Bergeron aka Tony Horton P90X.

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Kelly Finegan

Kelly serves as an assistant to the Athletic Director helps oversee the Healing Place Athletic Program. She is also the Special Needs Coordinator for Children’s Ministry. Kelly is a Viking, and is really good at high fives!

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Jason Laird

Jason serves as the Student Ministries Pastor and is responsible for overseeing ministry for students ages 12-30. He is also the Chancellor of Healing Place School of Ministry. In his spare time Jason enjoys taming lions for a traveling circus.

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Lauren Song

Lauren assists in the day-to-day operations of Student Ministries. She is married to a Ninja!

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Terry Olivier

Terry is the Dean of our Healing Place School of Ministry and the Ministry Coordinator for the College and 20-somethings ministry. He is passionate about equipping students and leaders to reach out and make a difference. Also, He thinks Rocky Balboa is the single greatest character of our time and has personally seen Rocky 4 over 50 times.

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DeLynn Rizzo

DeLynn, along with her husband Lead Pastor Dino Rizzo founded Healing Place Church in 1993. She is a wife, pastor, worship leader and mom of 3 beautiful children. She is also the very vibrant leader of the women’s ministry of HPC. Her passion is to see women of all ages find their place in the kingdom and begin to Live the Dream! But most importantly, she can sport some animal print.

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Rachel Haman

Rachel serves on the HP Women team and helps with the HP Women Connect Groups. She and her husband Mike help pastor people at HPC. They have been a part of HPC for 13 years. Rachel was once a left-handed point guard on a state championship basketball team.

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Kim Braud

Kim works in the missions department coordinating overseas interns, Haiti relief, and mission teams.  She also works in the HP Women department helping with events, budgets, and daily logistics.  Last but not least, she is the assistant to DeLynn Rizzo.  And most importantly, she is a boycotter of animal print.

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Elizabeth Demarest

Elizabeth works in the HP Women’s ministry team.  She is married to the most amazing husband on the planet with 3 gorgeous children - Nathanael, Benjamin, and Gisele. Elizabeth is most known for using her Brazilian/American/Spanish languages to create new phrases or terms that Webster’s does not yet recognize.

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Nikki Carr

Nikki serves in HP Women Department, and is on the event team for the Live the Dream Conference. Nikki has the most contagious laugh of anyone we know.

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Brittany Comstock

Brittany works in the HP Women’s Ministry Department and does event planning. She defaults to Quizno’s every time she cannot decide where to eat. If you want an honest answer…ask Brittany.

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Becca Cleary

Becca serves on Healing Place Women’s team. She helps with event planning and is also responsible for all decor with events. She also assists DeLynn in whatever capacity needed on a daily basis. Becca likes to impersonate foreign languages but they all sound the same.

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Ann Morrow

Ann Morrow is the volunteer coordinator for Healing Place Church. Her passion is to equip and empower others so they can flourish doing the work of the ministry.  She understands that equipped and empowered volunteers add great value to the body of Christ.  Be careful, if you stand still long enough she may recruit you!

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Larry Gutweiler

Brother Larry plans and oversees all the outreaches for our Cooking for Christ ministry. His Jambalaya is world famous.

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JP Brumfield

JP is the outreach coordinator at HPC. He organizes all of the outreaches and gets teams together to serve the people of the Baton Rouge community. JP enjoys cuddling on the couch with a snuggie and a good novel.

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Tori Ohlerking

Tori is the assistant for the outreach coordinator. She helps organize all of the outreaches at HPC. Tori’s nickname is Jesus in a skirt.

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