Senior Pastor, Dean Johnson
My parents were both from a little town in the thumb of Michigan named Port Hope. In the late 1950’s, after they were married, they moved to California. Everyone was moving to California, the land of opportunity! My brother and I were born there. We were what I’d call “nominal Lutherans.” If you asked us what church we were a part of, we would have said the Lutheran Church, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve. Well, when I was 5, my parents gave up on the California dream and moved back to Michigan. We moved to Berkley, the suburb north of Detroit, where my dad got a job as a fireman. More…
Pastor of Student Ministries, Joshua Haynes 
Ministry Assistant, Gloria Kline

Growing up as the second of eight children, Gloria was born and raised in Ypsilanti, Michigan and attended Lake Pointe from childhood. She pursued a degree in Art Education at Madonna University, where she also served as a student manager for the women’s basketball team, a writing tutor, and an art archival intern. Instead of entering the field of teaching after graduation, she joined the Lake Pointe staff in the spring of 2022.
A year later, Gloria began pursuing a Master’s degree in Biblical Counseling at Faith Bible Seminary in Lafayette, Indiana, in order to better serve the discipling relationships that were developing through her ministry role at Lake Pointe. In 2024, she married her husband, Daniel, and together they now serve in LPBC’s Young Adult ministry.
As Lake Pointe’s Ministry Assistant, Gloria oversees church office administration and communication while also providing behind-the-scenes support to Lake Pointe ministries and individuals as needed. You can contact her at lpbc.ma@gmail.com.
