Senior Leaders
Brad & Jenny Kyle
Brad and Jenny have been at HOPE since its birth in 2001 doing anything and everything with servants' hearts. Investing in leading nearly every ministry of HOPE since 2003, the Kyles are now serving as the Senior Leaders of HOPE Family. Brad and Jenny are originally from Kansas City, KS. Brad has a MA of Theology and a MA of Divinity, and Jenny has a BA in Education.
Brad's and Jenny's style of ministry is team all the way, selflessly and intentionally capitalizing on the strengths of each other and their team leaders. Each of them loves to teach, mentor, and disciple others. They are life-long learners! Both Brad and Jenny are passionate revivalists who have a strong calling to raise up and equip the next generation of powerful revivalists through lifestyle evangelism and loving well, starting at home with training their own boys (Andy, Izac, and Daniel) to be passionate followers of Christ and powerful Kingdom revivalists. Offering people an encounter with Jesus is one of their greatest heartbeats! In fact, we often find them spending their personal time and resources serving others quietly just because they love people. In their spare time (yeah, right!), the Kyle family has fun homeschooling their boys, traveling, exploring, and spending every treasured moment together, whether snuggled on the couch or out and about. This couple leaves it all on the playing field of loving well in Jesus' name. You'll love getting to know them!
Apostolic Founding Leaders/Elders
Fred & Pat Bruner
Fred and Pat share the oversight of the congregation and take a team approach to pastoring in the vision, preaching, teaching, mentoring, discipling and counseling. They have been in ministry together since 1978 in all areas from planting churches and pastoring to youth and children’s ministry. They are a passionate couple, bold for the Word of God and protecting its truths. The desire of their heart is that people see with their spiritual eyes and hear with their spiritual ears that God is good all the time, that He has an extravagant love He is ready to rain down on us. They make known that we do not work in order to gain the favor of the Lord, but minister from the favor of the Lord, that we have already been anointed to live an Isaiah 61 lifestyle, and are, right now, already victorious. Knowing that, they say, builds confidence and boldness to do what the Lord has prepared for us to do.
Fred preaches from a place of knowing that the Lord calls him His friend. Because he knows that God is His friend and not just some far off authoritarian, he has zeal to defend and proclaim His Name. The Holy Spirit is on fire in him, and that fire pours out on the congregation during weekend services.
He and Pat live the abundant life Christ speaks about, bearing the fruit of the Spirit and sensing God’s presence, care, and love on a daily basis. They yearn for every individual to seek and find their own spiritual gifting so they can bring those gifts into ministry and know that there is a plan and a destiny of unimaginable goodness for them, that they fit into the body of Christ in a specific spot and are designed to fulfill a purpose.
Associate Pastors
HSSM Pastors
Justin & Jazzmin Hurless
Justin and Jazzmin have been faithful members of HOPE for many years, serving in various ways. Before they were married, Justin served alongside Brad and Jenny Kyle as an assistant youth leader and has also served as a teacher at HOPE’s School of Ministry. Outside of the church, Justin works as a Commercial Relationships Manage at Wells Fargo. Because of his financial background, he enjoys providing HOPE's staff with financial wisdom and insight. Outside of church and work, Justin enjoys golfing and hunting, connecting with people, and investing in family. Jazzmin served in Hope's nursery ministry for many years and is currently a part of the HOPE Worship Ministry. Jazzmin has a passion for worship, and a heart to cultivate an atmosphere of His presence for others to be able to enter. Outside of the church, Jazzmin enjoys taking care of her family and occasionally spends time working and volunteering at her children’s school. She loves building connections with people and investing in her community.
Together, Justin and Jazzmin served as Youth Pastors for 6 years before transitioning to Associate Pastors, leading HOPE’s School of Supernatural Ministry. Justin and Jazzmin have a heart to see a cross generation revival as all of God's Sons & Daughters come alive in their identity and live out their destiny, bringing heaven to earth wherever they are. They are blessed with 3 wonderful girls who keep them on their toes. As a family they are always trying something new, enjoy going on adventures, and consistently seek a life of health and wholeness in mind, body, and spirit. They also love meeting new people and encouraging others in their walk with the Father.
aSSOCIATE pASTORS
Marriage/Family Pastors
Events Coordinator / Administrator
mICHAEL & dENA pUZELLA
Dena and Michael Puzella have been members of HOPE’s Family since shortly after it began in 2001. They are dedicated and devoted family members who willingly serve wherever they can, volunteering to help in countless ways throughout the years. Dena is a highly-skilled administrator with an exceptional gift for organizing large events and special projects. She is an invaluable help to the ministries that she administrates including HSM, the Hospitality ministries, Marriage Ministry, HOPE’s Christmas Dinners and HOPE’s Family Dinners, but she is also a strong support to the pastor’s individual administrative needs. Michael and Dena share an amazing testimony of living a life of purity in their relationship. They model a marriage based on mutual respect, love and cooperation, positively influencing not only their four wonderful children but the rest of the HOPE Family as well.
wORSHIP pASTOR
hANNAH sTEENSLAND
Hannah has served on Hope Worship since 2016, and was added to the team as Worship Director in 2022. She has had a love for music since childhood that turned into a love for Jesus when she got saved at age 19. Since then, worship has been a powerful Avenue of connection with the Lord for her and Hannah has a passion to see the body of Christ encounter God through worship as well.
Children’s Directors
K-5th: Chelsea HOrner & Cori Hone
Preschool & Nursery: Kayla Kidman
Cori Hone
Cori is originally from Colorado, but has lived in Casper since 2019. Cori and her husband Cooper have been married since 2017 and have 4 beautiful children. Cori is passionate about showing kids that God is all around them. Cori enjoys spending time outside whether with her family or by herself. Travelling is a passion of Cori’s, getting to disconnect from her day to day and experience something new while relaxing.
Chelsea Horner
Chelsea has a passion to see kids learn about the awe and wonder of who Jesus is and watch them activate His power in and through their lives. Chelsea and her husband Zac have been married since 2003 and have 4 sons ranging from elementary age through high school. They enjoy spending time together whether on the football field, wrestling mat or on the road traveling together as a family.
Kayla Kidman
Kayla has been attending Hope Church since early 2016. She served a few years on the media team before switching in 2020 to serving in preschool ministry and has been serving in that department ever since! She has been married to her husband Michael since 2017 and they own a Matco tools franchise together. Kayla loves connecting with families and has had a Mom group with Hope for a couple of seasons. She looks forward to co-leading the preschool and nursery team with the goal to nurture and teach our children to grow in faith, love, prayer and revival.
Youth Pastor
Jesse Suggs
Jesse is originally from Louisiana, but has lived in Casper since late 2018. Jesse and his wife Ashley have been married since 2017. Jesse & Ashley have two beautiful daughters, Everest and Olive. Jesse has had several opportunities to work and minister to youth and is passionate to see them fulfilled in Christ. Some of Jesse’s favorite activities are painting and playing drums on the worship team.
Connect Pastor
Thanya Castellon
Thanya is a passionate lover of Jesus. Her desire is to see people come to know Him in an intimate, life-changing way and experience the abundant life Jesus promises to those who believe. She loves to encourage people at any stage of life, in their daily walk with the Lord.
Full of energy and joy, Thanya brings Kingdom life into every area of ministry she serves in. Thanya has served the body of HOPE since 2010. She has invested her talent and energy in children’s church, youth ministry, young adults, women’s ministry & hospitality and she brings fiery words to the body as a whole on a regular basis.
In addition, Thanya has a heart for the global church. She ministers in areas of Mexico, Haiti, the Philippines, Peru, Nepal, Thailand, Holland, Belgium, Kenya and Burundi. Thanya is a daughter, sister, friend and amazing minister of the gospel who genuinely loves the body of Christ.
HOPE Elders
Joe & Carrie Parrish
Joe and Carrie Parrish were married in 1992 and have two grown sons, Grady and Fletcher. They have been with HOPE Church since its very first service in 2001, having gone from quietly attending to passionately serving HOPE in a variety of ways and roles. Both Joe and Carrie serve as Elders of HOPE. Joe is a native of Wyoming. He absolutely loves spending time outside, exploring all of Wyoming. He enjoys sharing his outdoor adventures with friends and youth from HOPE. Joe organizes and leads a yearly backpacking trip with “the guys”. He got an early start enjoying kids when he took on the role of being a HOPE pre-school teacher for a few years, which then lead into both Joe and Carrie being Children’s Church teachers for a while. Joe has been self-employed for the past 30 plus years selling and supporting computerized accounting systems. Carrie graduated High School in Gillette WY and Nursing School through Casper College. She began helping with HOPE’s Encounters in 2002. Currently she is the Director over HOPE’s Life Transformation Center which covers the Encounter Ministry and SOZO Ministry. She also trains and leads the Prayer Team Ministry. For several years Carrie served under Pat Bruner as her personal assistant. Carrie’s passion is to see people set free; living a life of not only saved but free, the abundant life God promises. She also loves to lend a helping hand to the needs of HOPE, whether it be helping paint or clean at the church, praying for someone in the ER, or just being an extra set of hands to assist the leaders of HOPE. Joe and Carrie love spending time doing (or at least cheering on) the things that their boys love to do; such as football, snowmobiling, skiing, hiking and rock climbing. And last but definitely not least, you will likely find their dog, Ryp, close by wherever they go.
Bill & Linda Beckton
Bill and Linda have been in Ministry together before they were married in 1983. They ran in home bible fellowships. Eventually they attended Hope and became Hope Encounter and Sozo directors. They are also Elders of Hope Church. Bill enjoys helping others better understand their identity in Christ, that God is a loving Father and that they are His beloved sons. For Bill, worship is a life-style, not a weekly church event. One of the most enjoyable things for Linda is when she sees people really “get it” and experience who the Lord is and how much He loves them. Bill and Linda love helping people get inner freedom through Sozo and Encounter ministry and helping them discover their true identity.