Karen Graef - Music Director

Karen Graef has been the Music Director at Chapel Lane since 1997 and she currently directs our four vocal choirs and our four handbell choirs. Karen has an organ performance degree from Central Michigan University and a Masters of Music Degree in Choral Performance from Central Michigan University. Karen is a Music Professor at Delta College and also teaches piano in her home studio. Karen and her husband have resided in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan since 1987 after relocating from Houston, Texas.

Chrissy Westbury has always had a love for Christ and a love for teaching. Since 2005, she has enjoyed sharing both of those loves with the congregation of Chapel Lane. She has a degree from Central Michigan University, and has spent her entire adult career working for non-profit organizations in an educational capacity. The daughter of a United Methodist minister, Chrissy grew up in the church and takes great pleasure in watching the children and adults of Chapel Lane as they grow in faith. Chrissy and her husband Dirk have two beautiful children - Daphne, born in April 2004 and Ryan, who joined the family in July 2007. Chrissy enjoys theatre, music, literature, and art and involves herself in the arts community whenever possible! She and Dirk both love to cook and play cards and Scrabble.

Joyce is a native of Houston, Texas, born Feb. 20, 1947, one of seven girls and two boys. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Howard University in 1969 majoring in Chemistry. Joyce was employed by AT&T in New York and Cincinnati as a programmer and manager. After retiring in 1998 after 29 years of service, she worked as a project manager for Toyota, as a technical writer for an internet startup company and as an accountant for First Student, Inc. Joyce brought her broad experience to serve Chapel Lane as our Office Administrator in August of 2003.

Joyce is a single mother of two; a college-age son who lives in Ohio and a daughter who lives with Joyce (along with four grandsons!) and she has two sisters who each live on her street! Joyce loves her close-knit family and thinks Midland is a great place to raise a family. She enjoys Bible study, sewing, crocheting and traveling; in fact Joyce has visited 33 of the 50 United States as well as 16 foreign countries.

Joyce’s life and well-being is sustained by the knowledge that “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13.”