We have been married since 1986, and have three great boys, aged 18, 15 and 12. We have a long history with Paul and Lisa! Caryn and Lisa have been friends since Junior High school, and Lisa and her family played a great role in Caryn coming to faith in Christ as a high school student. As a newly married couple, we were challenged by Paul, who was the youth pastor at Northwest Community Church, to continue to take on greater ministry responsibilities while youth leaders there. John later succeeded Paul in that same role. John also succeeded Paul as a church planter from NCC, Paul planting NCC’s first church plant, John the second. It now seems so natural for us to join with Paul and Lisa on staff with GTN, having the same passion to raise up leaders, and we are looking forward to even greater things from God.

John is a native New Yorker and Caryn grew up in Arizona. John is a graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo, and holds an M.Div. from Phoenix Seminary. Caryn is a graduate of Texas Christian University and is currently pursuing her Master’s Degree in Professional Counseling. They have much experience in overseas ministry, church planting, mentoring leaders and pastoral ministry. Consistent with the mission of GTN, Caryn and John have a great passion to raise up Christian leaders in an area of very great need which is very close to their hearts: New York City. So, they are leaving 23 years of ministry in Arizona and bringing their experience to help relieve the famine of trained pastors in the most influential city in the world.

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