Our Team
Christopher Cali, CEO
Christopher was born and raised in Baldwinsville, New York. He attended the State University of New York at Oswego where he first was called into the ministry. Chris served as a youth and young adults pastor in Cicero, New York before moving out to Portland Oregon where he assisted in the planting of the Well Church. Due to the distance from home and his family Christopher decided to move back to the east coast. During the move, Chris decided to attend law school. He graduated from Suffolk University Law School in 2005 and since 2007 has served as the Chief Legal Officer for a multi-billion dollar finance company.
In 2017, Christopher again felt the call to ministry. Sensing this call he returned to school and attended Reformed Theological Seminary where he pursued his Doctor of Ministry degree. In 2023, he was elected by Northside Baptist Church to be their new Lead Pastor. Today, Christopher serves at Northside Church in Liverpool and as CEO of Coram Deo Ministries. Chris is married to his wife Ashley, and they have three daughters, Izabella, Piper, and Hayden.
Joseph Salvagni, COO
Joe graduated from Kentucky Christian College with a Degree in Youth and Family Ministry. He also graduated from the Police Academy to work with Onondaga County Sheriffs Dept. Joe was the owner and operator of Scoops Ice Cream Shoppe and served on staff at Northside Church as the Pastors Administrative Assistant, and previous to that in the Youth Ministry as well as on the events and hospitality ministry team.
For as long as Joe can recall, He has had a burning desire to serve and impact the lives of those around him with his whole heart, mind, soul and strength. In Joe’s earliest career and calling, he worked in the police force, where he found himself seeking out the underdogs, undermined, underprivileged, and undone individuals and leading them toward freedom, security, shelter, safety, and sanctuary. Joe then moved into new opportunities in missions where he intentionally set out to seek out those who had needs bigger than they could fulfill. Witnessing firsthand the troublesome scarcity and insufficient supply of life sustaining water amongst the underprivileged, Joe’s heart broke and his feet set out to fill a need. He spent years bringing the message of Jesus and the blessing of clean running water to the people of the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Haiti and Africa. Joe has taken countless teams to places where people need to be fed: heart, mind, soul and strength. In order to better impact his time in the mission field, Joe fulfilled a passion for seeing people happy by opening an ice cream shoppe, where he cultivated an environment for people to enjoy the benefit of community and bless the ministry with his profit. Joe’s time on staff at Northside was filled with opportunity to see a need and fill a need, continuing to point people to Jesus; heart, mind, soul and strength.
Help is Joe’s modus operandi, his MO, his life word. See the need and fill it, and take every opportunity to hit the ground running for the sake of the Lord’s work and the passion of his life work. Joe looks forward to pressing on in service to His God and God’s people; running the race of life and carrying as many along with him as he can.
Ashley Cali, CFO
Ashley was born and raised in Baldwinsville, New York. She attended the State University of New York at Oswego where she earned her degree in Accounting. After graduating Ashley served as the Controller of an upstate New York Real Estate Company. In 2020 Ashley decided to pursue her master’s degree in theology. She is currently a student in the MA program at Reformed Theological Seminary. Ashley works full time as a mother of three and serves Coram Deo Ministries as its Chief Financial Officer.