New Heart Foursquare Church
Reaching People's Hearts with the Love of Christ
Church Staff
Pastor Chuck & Marianne Cannizzaro
Senior Pastor & Women's Ministry Leader
Pastor Chuck and Marianne have been in full-time ministry for over 40 years. They met when he was a sales representative for Johnson & Johnson, and she was a sales representative for Sony. They fell in love and dated for 10 weeks. They got married and had their son Charles.
Pastor Chuck loves people and thrives on seeing them serve the Lord with gladness. He desires to see the Holy Spirit move in the services and in people's lives for transformation and healing. After Pastor Chuck had been in ministry for 20 years, God opened the door for him to be the Senior Pastor at New Heart Foursquare Church, where he has served for over 20 years. Pastor Chuck holds his Bachelor of Arts degree from Cal State Long Beach and a Master of Arts degree in Strategic Leadership from Life Pacific University.
Marianne leads the Women's Ministry at New Heart and the graphic arts work. She holds her Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Leadership from Azusa Pacific University.
Pastor Charles Cannizzaro
Youth & Young Adults Pastor
Charles accepted the Lord as his personal Lord and Savior when he was five years old. He loves volunteering his time helping the youth and young adults at New Heart develop their own identity in Jesus Christ and connect with the power of the Holy Spirit in their lives. New Heart's youth ministry is called The Big Bold Christians because Charles has a heart for encouraging the youth to be bold in their faith and to choose God's best plan for them in their lives.
As the youth and young adult pastor, Charles began volunteering simply because he saw that the youth had no one to take them up to summer camp, and he cared so much about them that he insisted on organizing all the youth and going up with them to summer camp. He then went up to winter camp with them and started organizing lessons and fun outings for them to hang out and develop community with each other.
Charles was born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He also loves watching Dude Perfect videos and teaching science experiments with the Vacation Bible School program at New Heart Foursquare Church.
Ron Johnson
Praise & Worship Leader
Ron accepted the Lord as a senior in high school when he was invited to a Christian concert. He knew then that this is the life he wanted to live–dedicated to the Lord–and he said in his heart that he would love to be able to sing for the Lord as well. Since then, Ron has led worship at various churches and Christian groups and sang for the Citrus College singers as they traveled to various churches.
He came to New Heart Foursquare Church during our Christmas program in 2019 called "The Road to Bethlehem" and sang songs depicting the birth of Jesus. For the past seven years, Ron has been the featured singer at the Mission Inn in Riverside, and he has a Facebook page called "Music for Your Day."
When COVID-19 hit in 2020, we called on Ron again to lead praise and worship for us on the lawn and now that we are having church indoors again he has added many new musicians to join us on stage at church. We have welcomed him into the New Heart family and appreciate that he is using his gifts and talents to be a blessing to us.
Ashley Heers
Children's Ministry Co-Leader
Ashley was born in Central California and was raised as a Christian. She loved attending Wednesday night church and winter camp as a kid and has always enjoyed working with children, especially since becoming an auntie.
As a graduate student, Ashley used to serve in the nursery at church. At New Heart, however, she teaches the elementary kids and is one of the teachers for New Heart's Vacation Bible School each summer. Ashley also helps coordinate all the children's church teacher schedules for both the elementary and pre-K age groups at New Heart. Her favorite part of teaching is making personal connections with the children and sharing God's love with them.
Ashley is gifted at inspiring young minds to get excited about the Bible. She has an enthusiasm about the Word that is infectious, and kids easily pick up that same passion from her. Ashley is a college professor and loves teaching young adults as well. She has a cat and five pet ducks, which have been more difficult to instruct but usually come when called.
Cecilia Gonzalez
Children's Ministry Co-Leader
Cecilia enjoys sharing the Word of God and teaching the truth found in the Bible. She previously taught English as a second language because she is fluent in English, Spanish, and Italian. However, Cecilia loves teaching in children's church because she gets to see kids in children's church get excited about God and encourage them to live for Him.
As both a parent herself and a children's church teacher, Cecilia is a firm believer in applying Proverbs 22:6: "Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it." Cecilia and her husband have two teenage boys, and they read the Bible together almost every day. She also has a passion for intercessory prayer and for praying for people to receive healing from all their sicknesses and diseases.
Bill Randazzo
Audio/Visual Ministry Leader
As a young child, Bill grew up going to Neighborhood Christian Fellowship in Covina with his family. He has since re-discovered the value of God's Word and the importance of serving in a local church community. Bill loves staying connected to his family at New Heart and has a determination like no other in making sure that any and every job gets done right both at work and in church. He graduated from UC Riverside with a Bachelor of Science degree and loves playing video games in his spare time.
Bill is also passionate about computers and works in information technology. He has transferred his skills from information technology to help us at New Heart with our audio/visual ministry. Bill is exceptional at trouble shooting and can basically solve any problem we encounter from an annoying buzzing sound to independently designing our Facebook and YouTube simulcast during the COVID-19 pandemic. We are deeply indebted to Bill for all his knowledge and hard work.