Our Leadership Team“I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans 15:13 NLT
Our Story
Bill and Stephanie have been married for 19 years and have five awesome kids.
In his younger years, Bill would have been voted least likely to be a pastor. He grew up hunting, fishing, and working in his family’s tractor business. Later he pursued a career in technology and business. He spent his young adult years looking for fun and fulfillment through legendary parties and making money. To his complete surprise, Jesus changed his life at age 25 when a new Christ-following family moved into town and befriended the young adults in the community. You can read about it here.
Stephanie is a gifted speaker and writer. She has spoken a numerous women’s conference and ladies events. You can listen to her speak here. Her articles have been published in different parenting magazines. She had an idyllic childhood in rural Arizona with many siblings and a menagerie of farm animals. She grew up in a Christian family, but with the mistaken belief that following Jesus was mostly about how to follow enough rules to make God happy. She made Christ her leader at an early age, but it took many years of growing in friendship with him before she understood that there is nothing we can do to make God love us any less, and no good we can do to make him love us any more. Understanding his complete forgiveness, total acceptance, and unconditional love revolutionized her life and freed her from fear, insecurity, and shame.
Bill and Stephanie married in 2000 and have five awesome kids. As a team, they have opened their hearts, home, and life to many spiritual seekers. Their goal together is to help people find freedom and fulfillment in a relationship with God.
Why Colorado?
We believe God led us here to this beautiful state and the wonderful city of Loveland! After visiting a few times, we genuinely fell in love with the life, the culture, and especially the people! Everyone has a story. We look forward to hearing yours!
Bill’s bio:
RECENT
- Business teacher for MVHS Semester 2 -2018: Taught Intro to Business and Marketing, Social Media & Advertising, Entrepreneurship, and Business Law.
- Selected as Johnstown’s 2018 Citizen of the Year.
BUSINESS BACKGROUND
- He has owned a digital marketing and a custom software development companies.
- Very early in his career, he led sales in an agricultural tractor and equipment setting company records and then was offered the business, but he declined since he knew God wanted him in a ministry path.
- He has two bachelors degrees, one in Business Administration/Marketing and the second in Computer Information Systems from Northwestern State University.
MINISTRY EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
- Bill finished grad work in theological education a 96 hours Masters in Biblical studies degree from New Orleans Theological Seminary.
- He earned a 4 year doctorate degree in Biblical Studies spiritual formation (how people change, can change, and how God wants to enable a person to change).
- He has led four different churches as lead pastor.
- He was teaching and leadership development/assimilation pastor for a 3,000 member church for 7 years. He spoke regularly to groups over 1,000 and weekly to groups over a hundred. He identified, recruited, and trained leaders.
HIS LOVE!
- He has led hundreds through courses on personal transformation, how to study the Bible, financial freedom, conflict resolution, and sharing your faith by being a real person.
- For 22 years he taught the Bible verse-by-verse to the churches he was privileged to pastor on how to connect with God through Jesus and experience God’s grace and mercy in their lives daily.