Our staff

All of our faculty are well-qualified academically and are born-again Christians who are dedicated to serving the Lord through the ministry of teaching young people.

Dr. Rick Adams

Dr. Rick Adams serves as the Principal of Greater Portland Christian Academy.

Pastor Adams and his wife, Regina, came to Portland in 1982 to found Greater Portland Baptist Church. He has a passion for winning lost souls to Christ, and is known as an old-fashioned Bible preacher. Through his leadership, and under the blessing of the Hand of God, Greater Portland Baptist Church has grown into a family of believers whose ministry extends throughout the greater Portland area and around the globe.

Mrs. Regina Adams is a Sunday School teacher in the children’s ministry. The Adams' have four children, two who are married, and two who are attending Bible College.

Mrs. Tallie Hein

Tallie Hein serves as the Administrator at GPCA

Tallie believes that everyone has a divine appointment with the Lord. She accepted the gift of Jesus Christ on September 22, 2001 and has been a faithful member of Greater Portland Baptist Church ever since. She is dedicated to sharing the Gospel of the Lord with children and families, and believes that children enrolled at GPCA will reach their full potential thru the teaching and atmosphere there.

Tallie and her husband Clint have two children, and are currently serving together in both the children's Sunday School department and the music ministry at GPBC.

Mrs. Rochelle Johnston

Rochelle Johnston is the K4 and K5 teacher at GPCA.

Rochelle graduated from Pacific Coast Baptist Bible College with a major in Christian Education. Her desire was to teach at a Christian School after graduating. However, after having children, God burdened her heart about teaching her own children. With the help of her husband Ron, she home schooled each of her children and is thankful for that opportunity. Two of their daughters are now graduates of Pensacola Christian college. Their third daughter is married and is faithfully serving the Lord with her husband and family at Greater Portland Baptist Church.

Rochelle and Ron have been involved in teaching Sunday School classes and in Bus and Youth ministries. Both are currently faithfully serving at Greater Portland Baptist Church.

Mrs. Wynae Hinton

Wynae Hinton is the first and second grade teacher at GPCA.

She enjoys working with children and pointing them to Christ. It is her desire to help the parents and staff of GPCA by giving her students the tools they need to be successful in life, which includes a love for the Lord and a willingness to serve Him.

She graduated from The College of the Ozarks in Pt. Lookout, Missouri with a major in family & consumer science and a minor in education. She trusted Jesus Christ as her personal Saviour in August of 1990. In 1995, she and her husband Stephen were accepted as missionaries and since that time have been serving with Rock of Ages Prison Ministry. For the past 12 years she has home schooled their two children.

Wynae, Stephen, and their children are members of Greater Portland Baptist Church where as a family, they serve in various ministries.

Mrs. Janie Sorensen

Janie Sorensen is the third and fourth grade teacher at GPCA.

Janie grew up in Medford, Oregon where at the age of eight trusted Jesus Christ as her personal Saviour. Her relationship with the Lord grew, and while in the 7th grade, she surrendered to serve Him in full time ministry. Upon graduation from South Medford High School she continued her education at West Coast Baptist College in Lancaster, California. Janie graduated in 2005 with a BA for Religious Studies and Elementary Education with honors.

Currently Janie and her husband Jonathan are faithful members of Greater Portland Baptist Church where Jonathan is a Pastoral Intern. Both are very active in the church.

Mrs. Valerie Buzalsky

Valerie Buzalsky is the fifth and sixth grade teacher at GPCA.

Valerie graduated from City University with a BA in Elementary Education. Her interest in education began in 1989 when her oldest child was in K4. She enjoyed serving as a volunteer teacher at their church's Christian school for 10 years before moving to Vancouver, WA in 1999. Since then, she has had the privilege of home-schooling her four children while attending college herself to complete her degree in education.

Valerie accepted Christ as her Savior on May 29, 1983 at her pastor's house in Bromeswell, England where she was stationed as a Medical Lab Technician in the USAF. She has been a Sunday School teacher ever since.

Valerie and her husband John currently serve in the bus teen department at Greater Portand Baptist Church where she teaches the middle school girl's class. She is also involved in the Deaf Ministry where she serves as an interpreter.

Miss Stephanie Johnston

Stephanie Johnston is the seventh and eighth grade teacher at GPCA.

Stephanie Johnston is a graduate of Pensacola Christian College in Florida. She holds a B.A in Music/Piano Performance and a Master’s Degree in Interpretive Speech. During her Master’s Program she taught several college freshman speech classes. She has also taught private group classes at Pensacola Christian Academy.

Stephanie was saved at the age of eleven. She grew up in a Christian home and saw the fruit of a true relationship with Jesus Christ in her parents and older sister. As she grew up, she often feared going to bed at night. She knew that she did not possess the relationship with the Savior that she saw in her family. One night she could stand it no longer and accepted the greatest gift a person could receive—true salvation.

Stephanie is a member of Greater Portland Baptist Church and serves faithfully in the music and drama ministry.