Barry Smith Senior Pastor

Barry is Impact's founding pastor and has been in full time ministry for 16 years. He's an evangelist at heart and loves seeing lives altered for eternity. He and his wife of 15 years, Tammy, have two great kids and live in Sacramento. Barry hates lima beans and peas but loves 80's dance music! He also enjoys listening to Gwen Stefani, C+C Music Factory, Fergie and Tommy James. One of his favorite pastimes is to kick it on the water with friends and a boat. A couple of things you may not know about Barry is that he once won a VW Bug at a Youth Conference and gets, on average, seven hours of sleep a night.

 

Scott Eaton Executive Pastor

Scott has been involved in church leadership for more than 10 years and this is his first church where he is serving on full-time staff. He's been married almost 20 years to Lisa and they have two children together. He's a christian music nut with everything from Chris Tomlin and Matt Redman to Kirk Franklin and David Crowder. Although he does from time to time pull out Swing Out Sister. He loves visiting the Sequoia National Park and also enjoys camping and hiking. Scott has the auspicious recognition of filling a gym with too much smoke during a basketball team introduction which caused many of the players to slip on the slick left by the smoke! Scott hates asparagus, loves the movie Apollo 13 and uses a Pentel Rolling Medium Writer pen.

 

 

Ernie Cabrera Associate Pastor

Ernie has been in ministry for 19 years and has a huge heart for God. He has been married to his wife Daisy for 23 years and together they have two children. He and his family were, with Barry, part of the founding core of Impact. You may not know it, but Ernie can cut his own hair and loves anchovies on his pizza! Also, in his day he was a pretty killer break dancer. He loves summer, enjoys golfing, video games and sleep! Ernie loves visiting San Francisco, driving his used BMW and has an uncanny, and potentially unhealthy, attachment to the green Impact pens!

 

 

Shawn Struckmeier Worship Pastor

Shawn has been around ministry his entire life. He's been in fulltime ministry for the past 10 years and serving at Impact since 2005. Shawn has been married to Darcy since 1994 and has three kids to show for it, with another one on the way. A perfect day for Shawn would be spending it out on the river fishing with his son. Some of his hobbies include reading, graphic design, editing video and letting his kids beat him at Wii HSM 3 Danceoff. He once had a full on mullet but has now adjusted to a more traditional 3 tone! He loves Def Leppard, Linkin Park, Matt Kearney, Mutemath, Kings of Leon, Chris Thile and used to be addicted to REM. He also tells really great duck stories and drives a 2000 Mercedes C230.

 

 

Josh Christian Student Ministries Pastor

Josh has been serving in fulltime in youth ministry since 1999. He's been married to Ashley since 2001 and has three boys. Josh loves music and he'll tell you he loves all these really cool bands like Hillsong United, Pearl Jam, The Cure and Dave Matthews, but he really has an extreme attachment to country music. He's a certified Scuba diver, loves going 4 wheeling, and absolutely hates onions. His top high school achievement was graduating. He loves autumn and gets 6 hours of sleep a night.

 

 

Tammy Smith Children's Director

Tammy has been the Children's Director at Impact for 8 years and has been in volunteer ministry for 15. She is married to Barry and celebrated 15 years of marriage in January. She has two incredible kids and is a big time soccer mom! Her favorite movie of all time is The Notebook and she enjoys listening to any type of Christian music. Tammy talks faster than anyone you will ever meet and can rarely say any type of slang phrase correctly. She decorates her home for every season, uses baskets for everything, and holds the firm belief that every time you go into Target you should come out with a new accessory.

 

 

Lisa Eaton Connections Ministry Director

Lisa has been serving in ministry for many years but has recently come on staff here at Impact part-time. She has been married to Scott for almost 20 years and together they have two children. She loves iced coffee but can't stand the taste of hot coffee. She rolls in a Honda minivan while blasting music of the '70's and '80's! She'll choose a road trip over a flight any day and enjoys scrapbooking, reading and cooking. A perfect day for Lisa would be taking a day trip with her family to explore some place new or to just hang with the family watching movies. Lisa also loves cheap ballpoint pens.

 

Chris Pitts Office Manager

Chris has been in ministry for many years but has served as fulltime staff for the past 6 years. She has been married to her husband Greg for 36 years! She loves listening to southern gospel music and thoroughly enjoys sewing, gardening and cooking. Her pen of choice is the nearest one to her. In high school she was the head Drum Majorette and had the dangerous job of twirling fire batons!! She loves driving her Grand Marquette and watching the movie "Gone With The Wind", not at the same time though. She also loves visiting the mountains and her favorite season of the year is Spring.

 

 

Lyn Harris Administrative Assistant

Lyn began serving on our staff in January of 2010. She has been in ministry going on 12 years. She is married to Gary and will celebrate 31 years of marital bliss in May 2010. She is an odd duck of sorts. She's alergic to chocolate but loves carmel, she hates coffee but loves tea and she used to be a vocalist for a local rock band but has 10% hearing loss in each ear. She drives a Toyota 4Runner and loves to watch movies while eating popcorn and Hot Tamales candy. She is passionate about her family, especially her grandkids, and enjoys spending time with them no matter what they are doing.

 

 

Wendy Mack Administrative Assistant

Wendy has been on staff at Impact part-time, since the spring of 2009. She has been volunteering and serving in ministries since 1990. She once spent an entire month in Sweden and currently sports a collection of Godzilla video's. She has the coolest car of all of us, a cranberry PT Cruiser and makes great use of it as she enjoys long drives through the mountains or the country. She's been a follower of Christ for 22 years and enjoys jigsaw puzzles, cross-stitching and reading. Her favorite pens are gel pens in rainbow colors.

 

Kristy Ryan Director of Events & Guest Services

Kristy began serving on staff at Impact beginning in May of 2010. She is the new kid on the block. She has been married to her husband Emmanuel for 5 years. She is a neat freak and drives a rockin van! She is passionate about her family, helping others and especially breast cancer awareness. She has three miniature daschaunds and loves the outdoors.