Our Leadership

Pastor Benj received Christ as a 5-year old, in Japan, where his parents still reside as GNBC-supported missionaries. His passion is to help believers cultivate a passion for God and a compassion for others that will motivated them to serve both faithfully. His desire as pastor is to equip believers of all ages with the tools and knowledge available to them through the Scripture to live Godly lives and to help them reach the lost around them.

Pastor Benj holds a BA in Cross-Cultural Service, an MA in Biblical Counseling, and is currently enrolled in a Master of Divinity program. Some of his favorite classes have been Greek, Hebrew, Systematic Theology, Family and Marriage Counseling, Field Methods of Linguistics, and World Religions.

Pastor Benj is happily married to his beautiful wife, Kate, whom he met in college, and they have two beautiful daughters and two dogs. In his free time, Pastor Benj enjoys hunting, shooting, woodworking, hiking, and riding his motorcycle.

Pastor Benj is currently bi-vocational and is self-employed as a pressure washer and handyman contractor.