Meet the Agape Fellowship Staff

Nathaniel Buck - The Lead Pastor

I was born in Ketchikan, Alaska and raised in Juneau, which is where I developed a love for the outdoors and a passion for bringing God’s Word to people. I love living in Alaska, with all the best hunting, fishing, and outdoor activities it offers.  It is also where I hope to live out Agape Fellowship’s mission; of serving the people that God has placed around me. I grew up in a good Christian family with my dad as the associate pastor and heavily involved.  So I knew about Jesus and the Bible from a very young age but it wasn’t until the age of 13 when I became keenly aware of my sins and my great need for the Savior.  It was then that salvation took place in my life.  It was at the age of 16 that I sensed God calling me into the pastoral ministry and I made that calling public to my church family and friends. God has given me a passion to see the people around me reach, and taught God’s Word. I pray that God would use me to accomplish these thing, though it is only through the gifts He’s granted me that I can do them. As the pastor of Agape Fellowship, I would eagerly invite you to contact me with any questions about Jesus or Agape Fellowship.  You are welcome to attend our services on Sunday, or drop me an email; or give me a call to chat about what God is doing in your life.

Dominika Buck - Worship Ministry Coordinator

I grew up in Slovakia and moved to the US in 2010 when I married Nathaniel.
As Nathan started pastoring a church in Juneau, God led me to lead the people of that church in worship. During those years, God has grown me in many different ways. I basically taught myself how to sing and how to play piano just good enough to be able to lead the songs. And I have been learning and growing in music, worship and leadership since then.
We moved to Palmer in 2015 to plant Agape Fellowship and I’ve been serving as the worship team coordinator since then. 
For as long as I can remember, worship was my passion. Praising God through songs has been one of my deepest callings. 

As a young girl, I prayed that God would help me sing, so that one day I could lead the worship. When God called Nathaniel and I into ministry at our previous church, there was nobody to do worship so I offered to do it, even though I had no experience nor the ability. But obedience to God’s calling, in spite of the feeling of inadequacy, led me to learn and grow, especially in the love for God and the praise of His name. God speaks to me through songs of worship and I love nothing more than to lead God’s people in humble worship. Before His throne, on our knees, we can be just as we are.  And together with the angels, we can sing Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God almighty. On this earth, we all have much to learn and grown in. One of those things is to worship in Spirit and Truth and my prayer is, that we all learn it together, in the presence of the Holy Spirit, when we meet at Agape Fellowship!

Chris Hall - Ministry Apprentice

Greetings from the Hall family! My name is Chris, my wife is Sam, and our children are Alvie (3yo) and Olivia (1 yo). 
We have been called to Alaska from Missouri. I am currently working with
Agape Fellowship in Palmer in the Ministry Apprenticeship Program.
I previously worked in the industrial field for nine years as a maintenance technician. My wife taught HS science for five years. We enjoy fellowship, the outdoors, and board games. We’ve recognized a call from the Lord to come reach the lost in Alaska and intend to plant a biblically
founded church where the Lord leads us. We are excited to live life in this very cold place and look forward to sharing the love of Christ with others.

And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds[a] and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

Ephesians 4:11