Our Team
Rev. Robin Sandbothe
Pastor
Rev. Robin R. Sandbothe believes God has called her to ministry in which she enables others to be spiritually formed. She is excited to see others grow spiritually and desires to come alongside them as she too is being formed by God’s spirit. She believes God has gifted her for preaching, teaching, and administration. She is passionate about missional partnerships, about fostering ecumenical and diverse relationships, and about leading believers to be integrally involved in being God’s presence in the world.
Pastor Robin began serving at Bethel in August 2021 and was installed as pastor at the end of October of that year. She has been immersed in Baptist life since she was an infant—came to faith in that expression of church, completed her master of divinity degree at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and was ordained by Englewood Baptist Church in Kansas City in 2001 while serving there as pastor of christian nurture. Her ordination has been recognized by the American Baptist Churches of the Great Rivers Region.
Before coming to Bethel Pastor Robin served as co-pastor of Englewood Baptist Church from 2014-2021 and as an associate pastor in churches in the Kansas City metro area. From 1997-2021 she also served in various capacities, including director of seminary relations, with Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Shawnee, Kansas.
Robin is an associate for Pinnacle Leadership Associates, where she serves as a leadership coach for clergy, churches, and others and as a church consultant—especially in the area of spiritual formation. She has worked with nonprofit organizations, such as Pathways to Promise as a consultant on community engagement projects.
Robin married her longtime partner Connie Edwards in April 2019, and they live in Columbia with their black kitty, Simon. She enjoys reading, gardening, photography, and painting.
To schedule an appointment with Pastor Robin, please email Cait Guinn at bethel1855@gmail.com or call 573-442-4775.
Steve Jannetti
Director of Music Ministry
Steve Jannetti has been called as our new director of music ministry as of September 14, 2025. Steve was born and raised in Connecticut. Interested in music from an early age, he began playing songs he heard in kindergarten. He worked with a neighbor until he began piano lessons at age 8. He loved singing and was in choir throughout middle school and high school. Following high school, Steve attended the University of Connecticut and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Voice. He was a member of the Concert Choir, Chamber Singers, Voices of Freedom Choir as well as a vocal soloist and ensemble singer in Opera Workshop.
In 1993, 1996, and 2001 Steve sang at Carnegie Hall with the orchestra of St. Luke. The first concerts were under the baton of the great conductor, Robert Shaw. The last concert was under the baton of Don Neuen from the Crystal Cathedral. Aside from these experiences, he has been involved in church work for 40 years and has worked with various genres of music.
Currently, Steve teaches elementary music at Cole R-V Elementary School in Eugene, Missouri, and accompanies many instrumentalists and vocalists for district and state music festivals in Missouri. He also has experience accompanying many musicals in various locations, most recently in Camdenton, Columbia, and Jefferson City.
Steve and his wife Valerie have been married 32 years and have 3 sons: Josh, Matt and Jake. His hobbies are landscaping, cooking, and crocheting, as well as volunteering at Hope House in Lake Ozark.
Cait Guinn
Church Administrator
Cait Guinn has been our Church Administrator for 14 years. She has been attending Bethel since she was 10 years old and has seen Bethel grow in so many wonderful ways!
Cait has many tasks as the Church Administrator. She answers the phone, keeps the calendar, schedules the use of the building and property items, publishes our newsletter, manages the website and Facebook page, and creates the PowerPoint slides and prepares the bulletins for Sunday worship.
Cait is the glue who holds us together, works closely with other staff and board members, and keeps Bethel running smoothly.
Cait has served on the church board several times leading various committees, especially the in the area of disciple development. She works closely with the children and youth associate to organize all of the children’s events at Bethel. She loves spending time being a mom to her two daughters Cianna and KaiLea. She enjoys a wide variety of food and cultural activities. Her husband is a local chef of three restaurants in downtown Columbia. She enjoys attending and volunteering for local events, hiking outdoors with her border collie Kona, and loves art and music of any kind!
AnnaLyn Adams
Pianist/Accompanist
AnnaLyn started her piano journey at age four playing alongside her older brother as he practiced from his fancy books. She began formal lessons at age six and swiftly outpaced her mother’s personal knowledge-base, thus self-teaching everything else she knows. She learned to play the organ at age 14 when her mother discovered piano/organ duets, and the two of them have never been the same since. AnnaLyn has spent most of her life behind the piano or on stage singing with her fellow musicians across the country, performing with the Wright State Honors Choir from Dayton, OH; the Weber State Chamber Choir from Ogden, UT; and playing various roles in multiple community theaters along the way. She also attended the Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities at Weber State University as part of the Vocal Pedagogy program. In her free time, AnnaLyn loves playing video games, reading two or three books at the same time, and creating new words to fit situations when words fail to appear in her mind on command.