Analisa Vitola is a lifelong member of Travis Park United Methodist Church. Her family has been involved in the church ministry beginning in the 1940s! Analisa began her church career in Ms. Patty’s Littlest Angels choir at the age of 3. Once beginning grade school, she was a committed member to the Cherub Choir under the direction of Ms. Betty Telford. In middle and high school, she sang, danced, and performed in the Emmaus Singers enthusiastically led by Michael Kahl, Rev. Joe Stoebough, and Dr. Gary Mabry. Analisa was also a devoted 7 year member of the youth group led by one of her favorite people, Evan Jones. After graduating from Texas State University, she returned to San Antonio, joined the Sanctuary Choir, now under the direction of Analisa’s first Travis Park friend, Caroline Bonner Collins, and assisted with the Joyful Noise! children’s choir for 10 years. She is honored to be part of staff in her position of Children’s Ministry Director as she stands on the shoulders of giants that continue to guide her faith journey.

Charles ‘Chas’ Waters has been the associate worship leader for Travis Park since the Spring of 2022. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Music Performance from Reinhardt University in Northwest Georgia, where he also grew up. After college, he moved to San Antonio where he could be closer to family and eventually started his own when he became a father to his beautiful son, Oliver. It was upon looking into where Oliver could be baptized that Travis Park stood out for its values of inclusion and unconditional love for all people. It was during this process that Chas officially joined the church in 2019. Since becoming the associate worship leader, Chas has been honored to use his musical gifts to express the love that he finds so graciously given back to him from the people of Travis Park. Outside of church and parenthood, Chas enjoys working as a musician around San Antonio. He also loves teaching, performing and creating his own music. He looks forward to seeing where God takes him as he continues growing with Travis Park United Methodist Church. 

Chelsea Marie Bumgarner joined Travis Park with her wife and family in the summer of 2022. In the spring of 2023, she was asked to join Chas Waters as Worship Leader, supporting him in the music ministry. Chelsea has over 5 years of music and theater education and has over 27 years of professional and community theater experience performing around San Antonio. Chelsea and her wife Michelle perform often together and enjoy the opportunity to do so at Travis Park Church. Travis Park has been the first church they’ve attended who accept and affirm a Transgender woman and her wife as children of God, fearfully made in the creator’s image. While not at church, Chelsea works as an IT engineer for VMware and teaches online at Penn State University, while her wife runs a local CPA office. Chelsea is both honored and humbled to have the opportunity to share what God has given her with such an accepting church family, while standing side by side with her bride in their walk.

Yi Hsin (Sophie) Yu grew up and completed her education in Taiwan. She has a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the National Taiwan Normal University, majoring in Piano Performance. Before moving to Texas, she had led several girl’s choirs that won the district and regional competitions multiple times during her 23-year tenure as a middle-school music teacher in Taiwan. Mentored by Dr. Juanelva Rose, founder of Tunghai University’s Music Department, she started learning organ playing in 2015 and played Sunday services for the Luce Chapel at Tunghai University. After transitioning to the U.S. in 2019, she earned the Service Playing Certificate and the Colleague Certificate awarded by the American Guild of Organists (AGO) within two years.

Her service experiences in the U.S. included Lutheran Church, Episcopal Church, and Catholic Church. Presently, she enjoys playing the three amazing keyboard instruments at Travis Park Church since March 2022. She has two daughters, Rachel is going to college in Fall 2022 and Renee will be a Junior in high school.

Kevin is the Director of Handbells at Travis Park. He has been attending Travis Park since 2013 and has been a participant in the bell choir for most of that time, stepping in as director in 2022. Music has been a part of Kevin’s life since 6th grade band. Kevin is an oboe player and met his wife, Caroline, while on the drumline playing cymbals in the Longhorn Band at The University of Texas at Austin. Together they have 2 beautiful daughters who are active in the children’s ministry at Travis Park with another baby girl due in March 2023! Kevin also sings in the Sanctuary Choir, under the direction of his wife, and is currently the chair of the Travis Park United Methodist Church Foundation Board.

My name is Mia Carey & I program/operate MediaShout (what y’all see on the projectors) for Sunday worship & sing with the Celebration Band. I have a bachelor’s & a master’s degree in criminal justice/criminology. I have been a parole officer for the state of Texas for over 1 year. My parents joined Travis Park Church in 1998, when I was 4 years old. We were members until 2006, when my dad took a position at another church. My mom & I returned to Travis Park almost 1 year ago & it’s been such a blessing. I’m grateful to to be of service to Travis Park through media & music!