Stephen (TMU ’10, TMS ’16)
Oliver (7) | Mabel (6) | Luciana (4)
“After graduating from TMU in 2010 with accounting and finance degrees, I became an insurance auditor for the following two years. In that time, God radically changed my heart and gave me rich new evangelistic desires that ultimately led to the pursuit of vocational ministry. After finishing seminary at TMS, we moved to the Seattle area, where I’ve pastored for the past eight years. First as a youth pastor, then as an associate pastor, and beginning last summer, I became the lead pastor at Montage Bible Church in Bothell, Washington.
At Montage, I have the tremendous privilege of preaching God’s living Word every Sunday and praying for the transformation and growth of God’s people. Bothell is a highly populated, upper-middle-class area in great need of sound teaching and a biblical philosophy of how to ‘do church.’
As I finish out my first year ministering here, I would be grateful for your prayers. That God would mature me and make me a gentle, patient, and bold leader. That the people of Montage would grow in unity, joy, and holiness as we seek together to reflect God’s heart in and through this local church body.
I fondly remember and am ever grateful for my TMU (TMC!) days. And to my long-lost friends who see this, I’m still ‘Duwe-ing’ fine. God bless!”
