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Our Staff & Board
- Senior Pastors | Garner & Mary Tullis
Garner & Mary
are the Senior Pastors at Bethel Valparaiso and have 5 amazing daughters,
an incredible son-in-law and three phenomenal grandchildren. They
have been in leadership at the church for over 16 years serving as
Youth Pastors, Associate Pastors and for the past 5 years as Senior
Pastors. Their passion is to “equip the saints to do the work of
the ministry,” to empower others to fulfill their destinies, and
to raise up other leaders who will thrive in a culture of honor and
freedom. They are stuck on loving and healthy relationships—free
people, who in turn feel security and passion to take risks to re-present
Jesus Christ authentically. Their life mission is
"to know Christ" in order to make Him known, until "The
kingdoms of this world have become the Kingdom of our LORD and of
His Christ and He shall reign forever and ever." Email Garner
at Garner@bethelvalpo.com.- Associate Pastors | Benjamin & Carolea Burdick
Benjamin & Carolea
met at a Youth With A Mission school and were married 4 years later
on June 10, 1989. After 8 years of hoping and praying for children,
God performed a miracle and they now have 5 beautiful children (4
boys and 1 girl). After graduating college, Ben served
8 years as a Communications Officer in the Air Force and during that
time also youth-pastored for nearly 3 years. Upon separating from
the Air Force, Ben taught history and Old Testament for 6 years with
an on-line Christian school and served as a part-time Associate Pastor
with a Vineyard Church in Montana. In 2005, the Lord called Ben and
Carolea to go to Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry in Redding,
California where they spent 2 years. After a brief return to aviation
(as a crop-duster) Ben & Carolea came on staff as Associate Pastors
in the Fall of 2007. They have a passion for personal transformation
and regional revival. Along with serving the church, they currently oversee our School of Ministry. Email
Ben at Ben@bethelvalpo.com.
- Worship Pastors | Fred & Andrea Butson
- Email Fred at fred.butson@bethelvalpo.com.
- Youth Pastors | Kyle and Natalie Eichelberg
You can contact Kyle at kyleeichelberg@gmail.com- KinderChurch Pastor | Chelsey Dunleavy
Chelsey
Dunleavy is one of the Children’s Pastors at Bethel Valparaiso. She
has attended Bethel since she was one year old and has volunteered
as a teacher for eight years. She has been working at the church
for two years. Chelsey is currently a student at Valparaiso University
and is studying to become a teacher for students with special needs.
She enjoys serving others and has the compassion to teach children
about God’s Love. Every Sunday Chelsey energetically teaches the
KinderChurch children. She loves to interact with each child on his
or her own level and watching the kids worship and learn about their
Papa God. Chelsey can be contacted by email at chelsey@bethelvalpo.com.- SuperChurch Pastor | Paula Kraker
Paula
and her husband John have been attending the church since 1990 and
they have 4 children, Jacob, Kandyce, John and Levi.
She has worked with children more or less the whole time that
she has attended. Her vision is for the church to raise up generations
of children who are extravagantly in love with Papa God. She fully
believes what the church has been saying for years, "that even
our littlest saints have the same Holy Spirit that the adults do." She
feels that now is the time for the church to be purposeful about
teaching, training, equipping and releasing our children to fully
participate in the kingdom of God, including: salvation, water baptism,
baptism in the Holy Spirit, operating in the gifts of the Spirit,
etc.- Secretary | Cheryl DeVries
- Cheryl and her husband, Tim have attended the church for the last 6 years and she has working at Bethel for the last 4 years. They have 3 children, Elizabeth, Erin and Ashley. Cheryl has a heart for mercy for both the local community and areas that are in need. Her passion is ministering to those in need and to see the Holy Spirit have total control. She is hopefully anticipating healing's, salvations, Baptism of the Holy Spirit and standing room only in the pre-church service prayer time. Cheryl works Monday to Wednesday. You can email Cheryl at cheryl@bethelvalpo.com.
- Administrative Assistant | Tasia Vandermolen
Tasia has been attending Bethel Valparaiso since she was 12 years old. In 2005 she attended the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry in Redding California three years later she Graduated and moved back here to join the staff. She currently works as our administrative assistant and is one of the leaders in our ministry school Bssm Chicagoland and our Young Adult Ministry.
Her Heart is to live from the inside out pulling on the unity of others to see God's heart revealed. To see others get transformed as they discover their freedom in the fathers love. Tasia can be contacted by email at tasia@bethelvalpo.com- Our Senior Management Team
- Garner Tullis, Mary Tullis, Ben Burdick, Leslie Van Hook, Connie Deulley, Fred Butson
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