Lee Chiaramonte| Naomi Boyle| Kathleen Gold |Victor Snow

Lee Chiaramonte, Senior Minister

Lee Chiaramonte was born in Salina, Kansas, and grew up in the Kansas City area, Paola and Topeka.  She received her Bachelor’s Degree in English from the City University of New York, a Masters of Divinity from Drew Theological School, and a Masters of Philosophy from Drew University.  She is presently completing her PhD in Theology, which centers on a historical analysis and feminist theoethical reconstruction of the virtue of courage.

Rev. Chiaramonte is a United Church of Christ minister whose pastoral specializations are constructing urban-suburban partnerships, inner city ministry and Christian character formation.  For a year and a half full time, she taught Sociology of Religion at Saint Paul School of Theology as the interim faculty replacement for Tex Sample.  Rev. Chiaramonte has also taught Ethics and Urban Mission at Central Baptist Theological Seminary and has been teaching at Avila University for more than eight years, where her subjects are American Church History and Old and New Testament.  For five years Rev. Chiaramonte was the Chaplain for NewHouse, Kansas City’s largest shelter for battered and poor women and their children, located close to the church.

In September of 2005, the Missouri Bar Association conferred their "Liberty Bell" Award upon Rev. Chiaramonte for significant public service contributions by a non-lawyer made to the wider community.  In 2003, the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office and COMBAT named her a “Community Mother” of the year.  Rev. Chiaramonte has been the field supervisor for more than twenty seminarians from two local seminaries while Sr. Pastor at IBCC and is regionally active in both denominations she serves.

She has served congregations in New York, New Jersey, Washington and Missouri.

Her son, York, and his family live outside New York City, along with Pastor Lee's four young grandchildren: Aurora, Andrew, Anthony and Angelo. Pastor Lee and her young daughter, Thai, and young son, Jaime, share their home with a posse of Miniature Schnauzers they love.

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Naomi Boyle, Music Director

Naomi started playing the organ at age fourteen after seven years of piano studies.  Her first organist position was in her senior year of high school.  After attending two years at the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam, she completed her Bachelors degree in Music Education with a choral emphasis at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.  She taught elementary general music classes for four years in Moultrie, Georgia.  She has served churches as an organist, choir director, and handbell director in New York, Georgia, and Florida.

Ms. Boyle hails from Florida.  She and her daughter, Susan, moved to the Kansas City area in May of 2005.  They live in Olathe.  During the week, she is an insurance adjustor in the Overland Park Complex Claims Division for AIG Insurance Company.  She has a Juris Doctorate from the University of Miami, Florida, and was a practicing insurance defense attorney in Florida.  She is still a member of the Florida Bar.

Kathleen Gold, Director of Christian Nurture

Kate Gold has been our Director of Christian Nurture and head of Children's Ministry at the Micah Ministry since 2006.  She loves working with children and finds her ministry at IBCC incredibly rewarding.

Kate obtained her Bachelor's Degree in Corporate Management from Austin Peay State University in 2005. She works full time at the Center for Academic Development at the University of Missouri at Kansas City.

Kate was born and reared in New Jersey, moving to Kansas City in 2004. She and her husband, Andrew, have been married since 2002 and have one child, Ian, born in 2008. In her free time, Kate loves cooking and gardening, spending time with her husband and her son, traveling back to New Jersey, going to the beach and spending time with friends.

Victor Snow, Building Manager & Custodian

Our building manager and custodian, Victor, was born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas, where he graduated from Sumner Academy. As a music major in college, he was active in the Jazz Band and was the bugler for the Woodlands Race Track. Since that time he's played in jazz and rock bands and composed music for everything from video games to church musical productions.

In addition to music, Victor also enjoys building and fixing computers in his basement, which he's converted into a computer workshop and music recording studio. His ministry as a deacon, Sunday school teacher, and organist at his Kansas City, Kansas church keeps him busy.

Victor and his wife Lori share their Independence home with five children and four cats.

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