Jeremy Moore | Worship Leader

Jeremy experienced a dramatic conversion to Christ during his senior year of high school. Through a faithful friendship and God’s pursuing love, he turned to Christ after seeing the emptiness of a life centered around a desperate longing for approval and acceptance. Jeremy studied Operations Research at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and, after graduating, began working in New York. Shortly after, in late 2003, he took a job in Philadelphia so he could help start Freedom Church.

Jeremy loves the city of Philadelphia and the people who call this great city home. He counts it one of his greatest privileges to worship God with music and to lead the wonderful team of musicians God has assembled at Freedom Church. He has great expectations for the new expressions of creativity that God will bring out of this diverse people.

Micah Jones | Band Leader

Micah Jones is husband to Tiffany and proud father of Layla and Morgan. He serves as the chair of the Bass department at The University of the Arts in Center City. Originally from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Micah came to the Philadelphia area to study violin at Temple University. He decided that jazz is where his heart is, and switched his major to acoustic bass.

Micah received his Bachelor’s at Temple and his Master’s degree from the University of the Arts. Four years ago Micah and his family came to Freedom Church in search of a new church home. When his two year-old daughter announced “I like church,” the whole family knew they had found their place to serve.

Elisa Zinn | Children’s Ministry

Elisa Zinn grew up in a pastor’s home in South Jersey. She graduated from both North Central University where she studied Fine Arts and Church Leadership and Rhema Bible Training Center where she studied Missions and Biblical Studies.

She has lived in both Belgium and Italy where she served young churches in the areas of music and children’s ministry. Combining her love of children and passion for music, Elisa entered the world of education, and has now been a teacher of early education and elementary music for over 12 years. She is happily married to Paul Zinn.

Paul Zinn | Connect Groups

Paul is one of several original members that helped launch Freedom Church in 2003. He knows first-hand what God can do when a small group of men and women choose to open up their lives to one another and pursue God together. Paul loves challenges and making the seemingly impossible become reality.

A south Jersey native, Paul has a passion to see men and women from across the Philadelphia metro-area get connected with God and with one another in life-giving relationships. He is happily married to Elisa.

Elizabeth Longo | Community Service

Elizabeth Longo is originally from the South Jersey/Philly area and has attended and served at Freedom Church for the past 8 years.  Currently she is a high school and college math teacher in South Jersey, where she also resides. While she has always enjoyed volunteering her time to help others, she particularly finds joy in working with youth in inner-city neighborhoods.

As she leads the Free to Serve ministry at Freedom Church, it is her hope and desire to connect the people of Freedom Church to the people of Philadelphia by coordinating various projects and activities to serve the people and communities within the city.

Folami Ideraabdullah | Prayer Coordinator

Folami Ideraabdullah was born the fourth of five children in Miami, Florida. A few years later, she moved with her family to Liberia, West Africa where they lived for eleven years. Life in Liberia was challenging, but the simplicity of the Liberian lifestyle and the Liberian people’s resilience and appreciation for life had a lasting impression on her. Back in the United States, she studied Biology at Penn State University, and next obtained a Ph.D. in Genetics at the University of North Carolina.

While working on her dissertation, she committed her life to Christ and began regularly attending church. A job opportunity at the University of Pennsylvania (where she currently works as a researcher) brought her to Philadelphia. She sought out Freedom Church and enthusiastically plugged-in to serve there. The priceless ministry of prayer has been her passion while at Freedom Church and she believes there is no better way to grow in relationship with God than to humble yourself in His presence.

Nadia Souri | Ministry Intern

Nadia was raised in a Pakistani Muslim family, and came to know Christ while a college student in Los Angeles through Every Nation Campus Ministries. In 2011, God led Nadia to leave a comfortable and lucrative career in Southern California in order to move to Philadelphia, a city she had never visited and in which she knew no one!

God quickly connected her with many wonderful people in Freedom Church, and has been using her to encourage others to pursue simple obedience to the Lord. Nadia is excited to see all that God has for the city of Philadelphia and is grateful that she gets to be a part of the transformation!

Gabe Bouch | Lead Pastor

Gabe grew up in a loving family and followed in his parents’ footsteps when he moved to Tallahassee and began attending Florida State University. The summer after his freshman year he was surprised to find his life changing dramatically after God began to answer his simple but honest prayers for help.

After graduating from Florida State with a degree in mathematics and physics, Gabe married his college sweetheart Jennifer, and together they began working as campus ministers at their alma mater. Nine years later, Gabe and his family moved to New Jersey where Gabe began pursuing a Ph.D. in mathematical physics at Rutgers University.

Gabe graduated in May 2011, and then took the logical (?!) next step and assumed the lead pastor role at Freedom Church. Gabe and Jennifer have five amazing children and love having a house full of music.