Our Committee
Pastor Steve Igo | Chairman & CHEX Office Administrator
Pastor Steve Igo is senior pastor at Cedar Presbyterian Church (OPC) in Jenison, MI. He serves our presbytery as a church planting coach, church planting office administrator, and member of our presbytery's Church Extension (CHEX) Committee. Pastor Steve loves pastors, church planters, mission works and churches interested in church planting. In 2002, he enlisted as church planter and organizing pastor of Cedar Church (OPC) under the oversight of Harvest Church (OPC) in Grand Rapids, MI. During seminary, Steve helped the late Rev. Bernard "Chip" Stonehouse plant Gwynedd Valley OPC (now Cornerstone OPC) in Ambler, PA. As associate pastor at Grace Church (OPC) in Columbus, OH, Steve acquired further church planting passion from seasoned church planter, Pastor Larry Wilson, whose congregation planted Covenant OPC (Mansfield, OH) and Providence OPC (Pataskala, OH). A graduate of Westminster Theological Seminary ('96), Pastor Steve pursued further church planting training through his doctoral program at Reformed Theological Seminary (Orlando) and the pastoral coaching network of Church Leader Insights led by Dr. Nelson Searcy.
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Pastor Doug Bylsma
Pastor Doug began serving on the CHEX Committee in 2022. He has direct church planting experience, having been the church planter of Living Hope OPC in Beamsville, which particularized in 2019. Pastor Doug received his degree in theology from Haddington House, a Presbyterian Seminary in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. He was ordained to gospel ministry in March of 2011. He and his wife, Kristi, have six children. Being a resident of Niagara his whole life, Pastor Doug continues to be involved in the community. In the past he has served as a volunteer for Youth for Christ, the “Upper Deck Center” in Vineland. He has also been involved in youth ministry in Beamsville with the Convos Youth Zone.
Pastor David Noe
Dr. David C Noe has a PhD in Classics from the University of Iowa (2003) and served on the faculty of Calvin University (2007-2021), chairing the Philosophy Department and teaching in the departments of Philosophy, Classics, and History. Dr. Noe pastors Reformation Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and serves on various ecclesiastical committees. He is the translator of numerous works from the 16th and 17th century, including letters and treatises by Franciscus Junius, Theodore Beza, William Perkins, John Calvin, and many others. He and his wife Tara have four children.
John Frith, Ruling Elder
John and family joined the OPC in California, almost 40 years ago and began attending Oakland Hills in 1998. He became an elder in 2011 and is currently serving as the Clerk of Session. He and his wife Christine have three boys and 5 grandchildren. John works in the automotive consulting field and enjoys spending time with his family and at their cabin in Gaylord.
David Raih, Ruling Elder | Co-Treasurer
David Raih was blessed to be raised by Christian parents in an Orthodox Presbyterian Church. God was faithful to His covenantal promises and David confessed Christ as his Savior and Lord while in high school. He later married his lovely wife Ruth, who was the daughter of an OPC pastor. David is a nurse by career and a ruling elder at Spencer Mills OPC in Gowen, Michigan. Spencer Mills was the first church and mission work of the OPC in the state of Michigan, begun in the 1960s. David Raih have been a member of the CHEX committee over 25 years. During that time, he has seen God bless the Orthodox Presbyterian denomination in growing the number of churches in Michigan from five to twenty, as well as in the establishment of the OPC Presbytery of Michigan & Ontario. David looks forward to continuing to serve God and to see how He uses the OPC to build His kingdom in this part of the world.
Greg Smith, Ruling Elder
Greg Smith, his wife Karin, and their two sons joined Christ Covenant Church in Midland, Michigan in 2017. Greg became a ruling elder and clerk of session in 2021. He is a professor of ancient Mediterranean history at Central Michigan University as well as chairperson of the Department of History, World Languages, and Cultures. While he has an abiding interest in ancient languages, early church history, and the Roman empire, he is convinced that God's kingdom and church are infinitely more important, and that his identity as a child of God and follower of Christ is the one that matters most.