Rev. Harry Skeele - Senior Pastor

Harry Skeele grew up in New Canaan, Connecticut, and began college in 1973 at Amherst College in Massachusetts. During a year off in 1975, he worked as a bartender in Nantucket, sailed from Nantucket to Bermuda, then began a trip around the world with a knapsack, sleeping bag and tent. Reading, sightseeing and meeting people as he traveled, Harry was somewhat surprised to find that happy, healthy and otherwise normal people could be intellectually serious about and personally committed to following Jesus Christ. After an extended time of studying, arguing and learning with Christians, Harry became a follower of Jesus in New Zealand.

Traveling home through Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Hawaii was an eye-opener. Previously, Harry believed Christianity to be a white, western religion. Yet during this trip, while visiting leaders of city and university ministries, he learned that Christianity is in fact a burgeoning social force in the Pacific Rim and around the world.

Harry returned to college in 1976 and earned a B.A. from Amherst in 1978. For three years after that, he served in campus ministry at Lehigh University with the Navigators. After this he earned a Master of Divinity and a Master of Theology in New Testament from Trinity Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois.

In 1987, he became pastor of the English-speaking congregation at Rutgers Community Chinese Church (a trilingual church) in Somerset, New Jersey. During the next thirteen years, English ministries increased almost tenfold from 45 to about 400, and the church’s combined adult membership tripled, making RCCC the largest Chinese Church in North America. During a sabbatical at Westminster Theological Seminary in 1995, Harry began a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology. During this time, he began to consider planting a church that would reach out to the whole community.

In early 2000, Harry transferred his credentials into the Presbyterian Church of America, and Crossroads Community Church was planted in Hillsborough. A mission church of the Metro New York Presbytery, Crossroads is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in America.

Harry met his wife Gigi at Trinity in 1982; they married two years later. Harry and Gigi have three children and moved to Hillsborough in 2000.

Gigi Skeele - Director, Women's and Children's Ministries

With a passion for teaching God’s word in a way that is relevant to life and appropriate for the listener, Gigi coordinates both the women’s and children’s ministries at Crossroads Community Church. She delights in witnessing the positive changes that a relationship with God will bring to an individual’s life.

Gigi grew up in a professor’s family in Wichita, Kansas. She earned a Bachelor of Music Education from Wichita State University; then taught elementary school music in the Wichita Public Schools, and piano fundamentals to music education majors at Wichita State University. In Wichita and elsewhere, she taught piano for over ten years. Sensing a call to ministry, Gigi attended Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, where she also taught Greek as a Teaching Fellow in New Testament. Upon receiving her Master of Divinity, Gigi interned as Director of Women’s Ministries at her home church, First Evangelical Free Church.

Upon marrying Pastor Harry, Gigi joined him in moving to New Jersey, where she became a stay-at-home mom when children began arriving while continuing to serve in church in a volunteer capacity. In 2000, the Skeele family moved to Hillsborough to plant Crossroads Community Church, and Gigi began working for the Hillsborough School District as an Instructional Assistant for special needs children. She remained in this position until she joined the Crossroads staff in 2007.

Cheryl Frueh - Counselor

Cheryl Frueh received her B.A. in Finance from Rutgers University and her M.A. in Biblical counseling from Westminster Theological Seminary. In addition, she received a two-year certificate from the Christian Counseling and Education Foundation in Philadelphia.

Cheryl has over ten years of experience with counseling in local churches and at a resource center for female victims of domestic violence. Beyond working with women in crisis, Cheryl has also counseled those suffering from panic disorder, eating disorders, depression and marital issues. Moreover, she has experience helping parents and their children who struggle with Aspergers and other learning disabilities. Cheryl schedules counseling opportunities weekly at the Crossroads office in Hillsborough.

Cheryl and her husband Eric reside in central New Jersey with two of their three sons. You may contact Cheryl at: (732) 599-2153 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Debbie Auld - Office Manager

Debbie Auld is a native of St. Louis, Missouri, where she and her husband met and raised two daughters. She earned a B.A. in Finance from the University of Missouri, and began her career providing office management and bookkeeping services for several start-up medical device companies in the St. Louis area. Her extensive experience includes working for a large corporate mortgage wholesaler in both the legal and correspondent lending divisions. In 2006, Debbie and her husband moved to Coral Springs, Florida, where she worked for a financial servicing corporation, providing administrative support to three directors including departmental reports, payroll, and served as the incentive program and events coordinator. Debbie joined Crossroads Community Church in April of 2008. As Office Manager, she supports the Senior Pastor, Youth Pastor and the Director of the Women and Children’s Ministries. She also maintains the financial, membership, and contribution databases including payroll, taxes, and monthly reporting.