Dianna Lynn Potter

Pastor of Compassion and Outreach

Dianna Potter

Dianna grew up on Long Island, NY attained her Associates Degree in Business Administration at Suffolk County Community College and her Bachelor’s in Business Management at SUNY Old Westbury. She has been employed the area of bookkeeping and June 1989 accepted a position in the airline industry.

Dianna became a Christian in early 1989 and from the very beginning sensed a call to ministry. Within the first three months of being a Christian, she became involved in outreach and prayer. While living in NY she ministered in the areas of outreach, prayer, youth mentoring and feeding the homeless in NYC. Dianna began working towards her Master’s degree part time in 1997 at Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack NY and relocated to Kansas City to continue her studies at Nazarene Theological Seminary in 2000. Dianna earned her Masters of Divinity in 2006 from NTS.

Since 2000 Dianna has lived in Raytown and served at Southwood for the majority of those years. She also served as an associate pastor in the inner Kansas City area. Since 2006, she has served at Southwood as a bi-vocational pastor in the area of Compassionate/Helping Ministries, Outreach and Prayer while continuing her full time employment (currently in the airline industry). She is passionate about: prayer, seeing people come to a full understanding of what it means to be a child of God, helping people access resources and change life patterns detrimental to their finances and health, and connecting people to God and Loving God and Loving people regardless of who they are or where they come from. 

In addition to serving at Southwood Dianna is involved in chapters of an International Christian motorcycle organization and an International Women’s motorcycle organization in the Kansas City area. Dianna started riding motorcycles in 2000.