Leadership
Jeff Brewer serves as the Lead Pastor of Hope Fellowship. Prior to planting Hope Fellowship he served as the church plant pastor at College Church with his main responsibility being planning and overseeing College Church's next church plant. Before coming to College Church, Jeff served as Associate Pastor at Grace Community Bible Church in Roselle and Elgin, IL for seven years where he helped to plant their new church in Elgin in 2006.
Originally from Ohio, Jeff and his wife Jennifer met one another in campus ministry at Ohio University and were married in 1995. They ministered with Campus Crusade for Christ in the Middle East after graduation before coming to Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 1998. While at Trinity, Jeff served as the Baseball Chaplain, Trinity Missions Fellowship President and church plant intern at CrossWay Community Church in Kenosha, WI. They have four daughters.
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Jon Trott serves as the Associate Pastor of Hope Fellowship. Before coming to Hope Fellowship, Jon served as a church planter with the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism (ABWE) in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Together with his wife Jennifer and their two children, Abigail and Anna, they planted one church, Igreja Batista Conexao Crista (Christian Conection Baptist Church), during their 12 years of ministry in Brazil.
After graduating from Baptist Bible College in Clarks Summit, PA, Jon moved to St. Charles, IL in 1996 to be a Youth Pastor Intern at Fox Valley Bible Church. It was there where Jon and Jenn met, married, and were called to Brazil. They served in Brazil until returning to the States to assume this role at Hope Fellowship in July of 2011. Jon completed his Masters of Ministry in 2010.
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Mike Magnussen serves as the worship leader for the Hope Fellowship community. He is originally from Bloomingdale in the Chicago suburbs and completed a B.A. in Biblical Literature from Taylor University (Upland, IN) in 2002. Following graduation from Taylor, Mike worked with adjudicated youth for nearly five years in a ministry called Rawhide Ranch (New London, WI). Wanting to continue working with students, he moved on to complete a Master in Arts of Teaching at Trinity Graduate School in Deerfield, IL. Mike most recently interned with Worship/ Music Pastor Chuck King at College Church of Wheaton while teaching at Outreach Community Center in Carol Stream.
Mike’s been a band geek for a long time. He played percussion and bass guitar with the marching band in high school while also learning guitar from his church youth pastor. He began helping with corporate worship in his high school youth group and continued on to lead music in a variety of church, school and camp worship settings. He is eager to serve at Hope Fellowship and join others in inviting all to know the love and saving work of Jesus Christ. Mike currently resides in Wheaton with three friends, two guitars and an accordion.
