Meet the 2024-2025 staff of Hillsboro Christian School, which consists of 5 full time teachers, 2 teacher assistants, 2 part time teachers, one part-time administrative assistant, a treasurer, and  Administrator. Our Pastor is the spiritual leader of our school.

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Mrs. Ashley Collelo

Teacher, K4-K5

I recently have had the privilege of being called to serve at Hillsboro Christian School as the K-4/K-5 
Teacher. I am very blessed to be able to come here everyday and spend time with all the children that 
come through our doors. My husband Alex and my son Thomas and I run a small homestead where we 
have raised many animals, and currently are raising rabbits. I also enjoy vegetable gardening, crocheting, 
baking and my two cats Moxie and Hurkimer! As a Christian Kindergarten Teacher, it is a humbling 
privilege to help be apart of introducing young children to God. Our God that made them, loves them 
and desires to have a relationship with them.  

 

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                                                                                     Mrs. Janet Brien

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Raised outside of the Church with humble beginnings, yet I have always had an awareness of God, and that I mattered and could talk to Him anytime I want. At preschool age, I began my questions and an intermittent search. Not finding the answers by the time I became a teen, I wandered my way. I got saved as a young Mom as to this writing going on twenty-five years ago.

As chaos reproduces chaos and life reproduces life, the Lord drew me out of darkness and provided more than salvation but this amazing quality of life that I have come to understand breeds from the joy of the Lord. I have cared for children my whole life beginning at an early age. My hope is to minister to these little ones, that like myself, at a young age may be searching for those answers. May they also receive the freedom that begets truth in love witnessed.

 

 

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Mrs. Ashley May

Teacher 3rd and 4th Grade

 As a teenager I was blessed with the opportunity to  join a mission trip to Zihuatanejo, Mexico. The goal was to dig a trench for a retaining wall behind their small school, to block the children from the expressway. In addition, we would put on scripture based plays and deliver clean, bottled water to the local families. What a humbling experience!

My husband Brandon and I have been together since 2008. We have 4 amazing children, two girls, 15 and 7 as well as 4 year old twin boys. Our youngest daughter and twins attend Hillsboro Christian School.

It wasn’t until 2020 that Brandon and I found Hillsboro Baptist Church, and I  was finally saved and dedicated my life to the Lord. In 2022 I was called to serve at HCS as a 2nd grade teacher. I am beyond blessed to be able to serve the Lord in such a rewarding way.

 

 

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Mrs. Sheena Mitchell

Teacher, 5th and 6th Grade

I have attended Hillsboro Baptist Church for many years and was saved during Vacation Bible School when I was 10 years old.
I married my husband Andrew in 2010 and we’ve been blessed with 4 beautiful children to raise for the Lord.
Our 3 boys attend Hillsboro Christian School and our youngest will join them soon. We love the curriculum and how biblically focused it is.
The Lord has been pressing on my heart to serve him more, and this past summer, I decided to fully surrender to his calling and leave my current job to become a teacher here at HCS. It has been a privilege to be entrusted with these young children. I cannot wait to see them learn and grow throughout the year and in the years to come.
When I am not teaching, I enjoy spending time with family, friends, crafts of all kinds and working on our small backyard hobby farm.

 

 

 

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  Mrs. Christine Piatt

 Lead Teacher 8th-12th grades

I was born in New York City and was a child of the 60s. Just as many of the young people of the 60s, I searched for love, peace, and joy in all the wrong places. I delved into eastern religions, lived on a commune, attended Woodstock, and sought psychiatric help for my deep depression. After years of searching and some terrible consequences of the sin I was involved in, I was saved through the reading of the Gospel of John, and my life was gloriously changed!!

 

At the time I was attending Hunter College in New York and teaching at their Elementary school. After our salvation, my husband and I moved to New Hampshire. Desiring to serve the Lord, I taught 1st grade and kindergarten at Community Christian Academy in Hillsboro in the early 1980s. In 1985 I began homeschooling my children and continued to do so over the next 15 years. My two youngest children then attended Trinity Christian School while I worked in the Special Ed department at Rundlett Middle School in Concord. I loved my work at Rundlett Middle School but in 2003, the Lord called me to Hillsboro Christian School. I have taught elementary through high school. It has been a joy and blessing to be a part of this ministry and to work with our wonderful staff and administration. I continue to serve at HCS offering my help wherever it is needed.

 

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Mrs. Megan Criner

Gym Teacher/Teacher Assistant

Mrs. Criner served in the Unites States Coast Guard for 21 years. Upon retiring she earned her degree in animal care from North Shore Community College. She met her husband in middle school and they were reunited in 2016 and married shortly after. They accepted Christ together, as their personal savior on July 31 2021. They became members of Hillsboro Baptist Church after their daughter had been attending school at HCS. Mrs. Criner is trusting in God and her leadership abilities to guide the young children at Hillsboro Christian School.

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Mr. Stephen Criner

Shop Class Teacher

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Mrs. Sharon Robidas

Music Teacher

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                                                                      Mrs. Amanda Stearns

                                                                         Teacher Assistant

 

Mrs. Deb Chamberland

Administrative Assistant

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Mr. Stephen Gaylord

Administrator

I grew up in church all my life and made a profession of faith to the Lord when I was 3 years old. As I went through my teen years I questioned my faith, whether it was real or not. I married my wife Jennifer in 2002 and in 2007 I reconfirmed my commitment to the Lord. After that we had 4 beautiful children and have gotten more involved in the church. My children have all attended HCS since K4 except our youngest who is not old enough to be in school yet. I have a desire to see this school succeed as I believe it is one of the most important ministries of our church. I came to HCS in a volunteer role following the illness of our former Administrator Mr Connor. I moved into the role of Administrator in December of 2021. Mr Connor has been and continues to be a great mentor to me as I learn the ins and outs of Administration.  I’m happy to serve the Lord wherever He wants me and thank Him for guiding and directing my life and the lives of my family.

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Mr. Everett Connor

Treasurer

Mr. Connor accepted Christ as his personal Savior at 7 or 8 years old after attending VBS at First Baptist Church in Contoocook where his parents had been taking him to church since his birth.  He met his wife, Barbara while studying for an associates degree in Electronics Technology at Modesto Junior College, Modesto, CA, and they were married in 1977.  He and his family joined what was then called Messiah Baptist Church in the summer of 1984.  Messiah Baptist was renamed Hillsboro Baptist Church shortly after.  He has held several official positions with the church since 1986.  He felt called to take on the position of administrator with HCS in February, 2015 when Dr. Easton retired (again).  He came to that position with no specific educational background, trusting God to lead and supply.

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Pastor Paul Gaylord

Pastor Gaylord was born on November 22, 1951. He grew up on a farm in Kinderhook NY.

On March 2, 1980, he received Jesus Christ as his Savior. He worked in the bus ministry of his home church, Bible Baptist Church in Ghent NY for 3 years.

In the summer of 1983 God used 1 Timothy 3:1 to speak to his heart about preparing for the ministry, so he moved his family to Jacksonville FL and enrolled in Trinity Baptist College.

While there he served in the bus ministry as well as the nursing home ministry. After graduating in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts in Church Ministry, he served in his home church from the fall of 1987 until December 1989 when he was called to the Pastorate of Hillsboro Baptist Church in Hillsboro NH where he continues to serve today.