Professional Summary:

I publish iLevite, an on-line magazine for church music and worship leaders.; I am a graduate of Oklahoma Baptist University and served churches in MO, SC and TX as full-time Minister of Music. For over 20 years I was publisher of the magazine The Church Music Report. I was Director of Music Publications for Tempo Music, Director of Record Promotion for Word, Inc. and Executive Director for Andrae' Crouch & the Disciples. I was Vice President of Christian Artists, Inc. and planned the first three years of the music conference in Estes Park, CO. I publish iLevite, an on-line magazine for church music and worship leaders. ; I graduated from Oklahoma Baptist University with a BME and served churches in MO, SC and TX as full-time Minister of Music. For over 20 years I was publisher of the magazine The Church Music Report. I was Director of Music Publications for Tempo Music, Director of Record Promotion for Word, Inc. and Executive Director for Andrae' Crouch & the Disciples. I was Vice President of Christian Artists, Inc. and planned the first three years of the music conference in Estes Park, CO.

Darlene is a Gresham Union High School Graduate and earned her B.A. Degree in Music Education from Western Oregon University (O.C.E.) and her Masters in Education with a minor in Music from Oregon State University She earned a Masters in Business Administration from National University. Her teaching endorsements are Standard Music PreK-12, Basic Business 5-12 and CTE (Career Technical Education) 9-12.

Darlene has been active on the world wide web since the mid nineties and has been creating and designing web pages since then. She and her husband, Jim, run a small mom-pop web design business. Jim offers advise and sells computers in his spare time and refers web business to Darlene. She has designed and maintains sites for several non-profits and for-profit businesses as well as for her church,

http://www.pendleton1stchurchofgod.org

In the 1999-2000 school year she taught music, choir and band at Ione. Choir at Heppner High and 1st and 3rd grade music at Heppner Elementary. From 2000 to 2003 she taught full time at Ione, teaching Business, technology and Music classes. She was also FBLA and National Honor Society Advisor. From 2003 to 2008, she taught Business/CTE and yearbook classes full time at Heppner High School. She was also the FBLA advisor and a class advisor. In the 2008-2009, she taught Choir and Business at Irrigon High School, 5th and 6th Grade Band at Irrigon Elementary School and K-4 General Music and Marimba at A.C.Houghton Elementary School. This year she is teaching at the two elementary schools - teaching general music, marimba band and technology as well as the after-school program.

Awards:

Darlene was the recipient of the 2006 Best Newsletter Award for the Oregon Business and Management Educators and just recently was awarded a $3000 2009 MUSAK Heart and Soul Foundation grant for her classroom at Irrigon Elementary School.