About Our Pastors

Shirley and Dave Marcroft  are our Pastors .  Both are NH natives: Shirley is from Laconia and Dave is from Ashland.  They met in college at UNH and were married after graduating.  After spending time living throughout the US while Dave was in the Air Force, they returned to live in NH.  They have three married daughters.

Shirley and Dave previously worked in the computer industry as software engineers.  Then God called them to serve in ministry.  Shirley is an ordained pastor with the American Baptist Churches – USA and has served as pastor at churches in central and northern NH.  She studied for the ministry at Bethel Seminary of the East.  Dave is a licensed pastor.  

Both Shirley and Dave founded Mountain View Christian Communications. This ministry provided Christian radio WVNH 96.9 FM to the Plymouth, NH area. They also have served on the board of the CareNet Pregnancy Center of the White Mountains. 

In 2001 Shirley and Dave founded New Life Church in the Pemi-Baker Region of NH.  Shirley serves full time as pastor of New Life.  Dave works as a nurse at Mid State Health Care in Plymouth, NH.

Shirley serves as Chaplain for the Campton-Thornton Fire Dept, and is a member of the Granite State CISD and the NH DBHRT teams.

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