Pastor Tim

Tim has been the Executive Pastor since 2011. Prior to that, he planted an EFCA church in Pennsylvania for 12 years and spent more time than that in the restaurant industry. Tim has a degree in Accounting and an M-Div from Bethel Seminary. Tim and Michele have been married 34 years and have four adult children: Alyssa, Drew, Josiah, and Haley.

Roles at Calvary

Tim’s main jobs are providing a strong ‘trellis’ (personnel, facility, finances, communications, etc.) on which our mission to make disciples of Jesus with passion for Christ and compassion for people can grow.

Person Who Impacted You the Most

Well, it sounds cliché, but clearly my mother. She loved Jesus, I mean really loved Jesus, with her tender heart from her first conscious thoughts as a child. She was a servant, self-sacrificing, a magnet to the lost, the least, and the left behind. Her name was Delight. I have only found one other woman in my life with the name ‘Delight.’ She is now with Jesus, but her life is all over mine, as well as that of my six siblings.

Little Known Fact About You

My mother taught me her exact process for making her caramel walnut sticky buns (Mom called them ‘caramel rolls’). Often these will show up in Coffee Connection on a Sunday morning. Michele and I keep nursing the idea that when we are really old, we will open a little coffee shop for 3-4 hours a day to serve the best Colombian coffee and Delight’s caramel rolls. (Don’t even think about asking for the recipe).

Turning point (or defining moment) in your walk with God?

This one is easy – when I was invited to teach Old Testament and New Testament Survey to 7th and 8th graders at Schaeffer Academy in 2010. Taking nearly 400 students over a dozen years from cover-to-cover in Scripture has been the single most gratifying task of my life. It has given me a new sense of the cover-to-cover landscape of God’s love letter to us (the teacher really DOES learn the most). It also motivated me to capture this course in a podcast (wordpictures) so my grandkids some day can take this same journey through Scripture.