South Campus

What an honor and a joy it is to serve Beltway Park as Executive Pastor.  Having served previously as a Children’s Pastor in Lubbock, God led us in 2003 to move to Abilene and to serve this growing Body of Christ called Beltway Park and I can assure you it’s been a tremendous blessing to be a part of this church family.

I grew up in the church and became a Believer at a young age.  I’ve seen the Lord use every season of my life for His glory.  God has been good to me! 

Part of that goodness in my life is my wife, Bobbie.  She has always been my biggest cheerleader and encourager!  Our years together have given us four amazing kids. Geoffrey (married to Sarah), Sarah, Emily (married to Tyler) and Landon.  We are also Pops and Lolly to two beautiful granddaughters, Berkley and Ellie Kate. 

About a year after our family moved to Abilene, a friend of mine called and said “Now that the honeymoon is over, how is it there?” Many years later, I can answer the same as I did the day he called me.  I’m still on my honeymoon!  I love Beltway Park and this amazing group of friends who have become family. 

I'm excited to see where God takes us next!!

I was born and raised in the wonderful state of Wisconsin.  So yes, I do love America’s Team, the Green Bay Packers.  On June 7, 1997 I had an encounter with God that forever changed my life.  I’ve had the privilege of leading worship now for 20 years serving many churches, ministries, and mission fields. It’s been the most exciting, trust-building, faith-building journey my family and I have been on.

In 2003, I married my beautiful wife Alicia.(she is from Lubbock, TX).  We have 3 incredible children.  My heart could not be more proud watching them grow into the powerful people they are called to be.

This journey in ministry brought our family to Abilene, TX in February 2016.  The year prior was a year filled with the Lord initiating the conversation about the move to Beltway Park and Him opening all the doors for us to get here.  My wife was ready to get out of the snow, so she may have prayed a little harder!! 

It is a privilege and honor to be a pastor at Beltway Park.  It is even more of an honor to lead this church in worship every week. 

The things I enjoy when I’m not leading worship: spending time with my family, bow hunting A LOT, and watching the Packers.

I feel so blessed to be on staff at Beltway!  I’ve loved the local church since I was a child, and always wanted to be about my “Father’s work” and serve.  Becoming a member of Beltway in 1988, and then joining the staff in 2001 has been a highlight of my life.  It’s been incredible to see how the Lord has moved during the past three decades, and get to partner with Him in advancing His Kingdom.

It’s been fun moving into the role of Digital Strategist and Communications Pastor, which means I get to dust off that old Marketing degree.  My day consists of working with a super creative and talented team, which includes marketing, communications, website, graphic design, and the online campus.  It’s exciting to know we have the opportunity of sharing Jesus within Abilene and the Big Country area, but now also the world through digital technology. 

The Lord has blessed me with a wonderful and supportive husband, Doug.  We have three grown daughters, two sons-in-law, and three precious grand-babies.  In my spare time, I lead life groups and Bible studies, cheer on my TTU Red Raiders, and watch football.  I absolutely LOVE movies, and music is a passion of mine.  However, more than anything, I just love spending time with my family!

I’m amazed how God has orchestrated my life and wasted nothing along the way to prepare me for this current role of service.  My heart is to share Jesus, and see transformation take place in people of ALL ages, so that it will change generations to come.

I was born and raised in the great metropolis that is Lubbock, Texas. In 2003, in February of my junior year of high school, my family moved to Abilene. Yes, if you’re curious, that is not the easiest time to move from a private school you’ve gone to since Kindergarten into a public school that had as many kids per grade as the entire school I came from.

My first Sunday at Beltway, my family went out to lunch with another family in our church, and I left that lunch pretty enamored with the girl who sat across from me during lunch. A few months later, we started dating, and got married in 2006. My wife Sarah grew up at Beltway since she was in middle school. We’ve been around this community for a long time! It has shaped us, encouraged us, challenged us, built us up, and pushed us further when we needed it. Sarah is incredibly talented and creative. She works for a construction company in town and runs a floral business in her spare time. When people ask me who does the handiwork around our house…it is Sarah. We have 2 beautiful daughters, Berkley was born in 2011, and Ellie was born in 2013.

I started working at Beltway in 2007. I have held multiple jobs around here. I was a part of our student ministry for about a decade, and then I became our College Pastor in late 2016. I was then the North Campus Pastor until 2021, and now I am our Weekend Services Pastor.

One of the things that I am most passionate about in ministry is helping people realize how the Lord sees them. As a creator who made them intentional and with a purpose. As a protector who wants to be there to guard them. As a Father who wants to be “Abba” to them. As a savior who wants to spend eternity with them. As a healer who wants to heal both the physical, spiritual, and emotional wounds for them. As a connector who wants to see them connected to the community that is the local church. This list could go on and on and on, because we serve such an amazing, faithful, and kind Lord!     

I am incredibly blessed to serve the people of this amazing church on the senior and teaching teams as the Missions & Outreach Pastor.  I have a genuine all-star team that the Lord allows me to lead!  We are focused on reaching the lost in our city, helping with the physical and spiritual needs of the forgotten and fallen, and reaching the nations through Beltway short-term mission trips and partnerships all over the world.

My amazing wife, Erin, also serves on staff at Beltway. Nowhere else is God’s goodness to me more clear than in Erin. We have six beautiful children – Kennedi, Xavier, Marie, Joshua, Cristian, and Hannah. They are our joy.

I am originally from Abilene.  I was raised in the church, but went through some major storms as a kid, the biggest one being my mother’s death from an overdose.  I landed at Beltway as a high schooler who was faking the whole Jesus thing.  Because of the heart of students and pastors, and the genuine desire for God I found at Beltway, I gave my life fully to Jesus. Through the storms I faced, I learned to lean into God and depend on Him. He’s faithful!

We found ourselves back in Abilene, and at Beltway, in January 2021, after serving as missionaries to China for almost five years, and pastoring in Wisconsin and then Illinois.  We are blessed to be back with family and friends!

I started attending Beltway Park in 2005. I became a member in 2007. I started attending Celebrate Recovery at Beltway Park in 2008 seeking freedom from a 30-year drug and alcohol addiction. It was there that I found freedom through Jesus Christ. As my relationship with Jesus grew, I began realizing the desire of my heart was to help the helpless and less fortunate.

After working 32 years in the welding industry, I answered the Lord’s call for me to come into full time Ministry at Beltway Park in 2015, serving as Pastor of Boots on the Ground Ministry.

 My job duties include providing support for my team leaders, spiritually and logistically, and helping volunteers connect to a team that will be a place where they can serve. Additionally, I make visits and assess the many calls for help that we get, to see if we have a team that can help with their need. Sometimes my job is to find help outside our ministry, connecting the caller with someone who can help with a need that we do not provide services for.  Most importantly my job is always to look for the spiritual need as we connect with the physical need.

I also coordinate classes and Church services for our Beltway Prison Ministry Team, serving at the Taylor County Jail, Kairos Inside at French Robertson Unit, Kairos Outside, and I serve as a Certified Volunteer Chaplain Assistant at the Middleton Unit. I also serve in the Recovery Community in Abilene to help those who struggle with addictions of many flavors.

I am a lifelong motorcyclist and have had the great privilege of forming and coordinating an Interest Group with likeminded motorcycle riders here at Beltway. My greatest pleasure is practicing being the spiritual leader of my family.

I was born in Grand Junction, CO and my family moved to Haskell, TX where I grew up in a loving small-town community.  Just after High School I moved back to GJ, CO and attended Mesa State College and pursued a career in Real Estate.  I migrated to Denver, CO where I continued to grow in Corporate America and became a Vice President for a Fortune 500 Company.  While in Denver, I met my husband Franz Hallgren and we were married in 2003. 

After being blessed with two beautiful daughters, Ruby and Layla, I left my 14-year career to become a stay-at-home Mom.  Franz and I moved to Haskell, TX to live close to my family and came to Beltway’s re|engage program and found so much more.  Being at Beltway became a journey of faith, learning, growth and then leading in different areas of ministry as Jesus took us through our next steps.  I began working in the Child Development Center, Student Ministry and am now the Women’s Groups Pastor for Beltway Park.

I have a heart of optimism and faith, looking for the gold in people and their situations.  I know, personally, that there is nothing too big, no situation too far gone, for the sacrifice Jesus made on the cross.  It is my passion and desire to come alongside people to pray and encourage them to find healing and wholeness in the name of Jesus, challenging them to take the steps they need to walk out their life with Him.  I have been told I have a keen eye to identify gifts and talents in others, and then call them up to serve in those areas and that is something I truly love doing!

I am honored and blessed to serve and love being part of a church family that says “come as you are” with a warm and welcoming environment that brings so many aspects of ministry to bind up the broken-hearted, learn what true freedom is, and strengthen the healthiest of believers.  I truly believe there is something for everyone at Beltway!

I love being part of what God is doing here at Beltway Park! It has been one of the great joys of my life to see people of all ages take their next steps in following Jesus here!

My relationship with Jesus began at an early age. I grew up in a Christian family, with my dad being a pastor for most of my life. I asked Jesus to be Lord & Savior and was baptized at age 8. I am so grateful for the grace of the Lord in my life, as I have walked with Him since that day.

I came to Abilene in 2001 to attend ACU, and majored in Youth & Family Ministry. I met my future wife, Joanna, during our freshman year at ACU, and we married in May 2004. We have four incredible children: Kaylee, Abigail, Emma, and Caleb.

I joined the Beltway Park staff as an intern in June 2004. I love seeing children and students taking their next steps with Jesus and partnering with families along the way! I am more convinced today than ever that God is faithful and is for us!

I came on staff at Beltway in August of 2014, as an administrative assistant over Adult Ministry. The leadership at Beltway soon found out what my true bents of ministry are in the area of evangelism and personal ministry.  In 2017, they placed me over Benevolence and Pastor on Call.  Father God impressed on me that He would build the house, if I would just listen and obey Him daily.  He helped me to build a wonderful serve team of seasoned believers that work alongside of me to further His Kingdom.

In Benevolence, we meet a need to give them the real gift…the gospel of Jesus Christ.  We hope to be instruments of the Lord, to bring about transformation in the hearts of every broken, downtrodden, and hurting person that walks through the doors of our church.  We use the principles of missions by meeting a physical need, but our ultimate desire is to bring salvation, resulting in breaking the worldly cycle, and every soul progressing into the fullness of God’s Love and Grace.  I LOVE serving alongside the Beltway family!  

Our family began attending Beltway, became members in 2012, and quickly jumped into a life group.  I served as AWANA Commander, a life group leader, and in Men’s ministry, before joining the Beltway staff in 2016.  I worked as the Early Childhood Pastor before taking on the role of Elementary Pastor.  I have the pleasure of serving with a fantastic group of people who love the Lord and love kids.

As Elementary Pastor, I get to help children (1^st – 5^th grades) take their next step with Jesus.  We have live worship on Sundays, biblical teaching, bible classes, and we have Wednesday night service and our AWANA Ministry during the school year.  Each summer we enjoy our one-week Kids Camp at Bonita Park, NM.  God truly does speak to children and use them to show us His heart for all of us.

My wife, Erin, and I have four wonderful children – Abbi, Zoe, Sam, and Ollie. They are each a joy and blessing to us, and show us daily God’s delight in us as His children.

I was born and raised in Waxahachie, TX.  I enjoyed baseball, video games, and anything competitive. I was saved and baptized in high school, also dedicating my life to ministry.   I graduated from ETBU and received my Masters from Logsdon Seminary at HSU in 2008.     

I love being a part of Beltway Park and serving with this staff. Beltway is a place that allows individuals an opportunity to grow in their relationship with Jesus and do that in community.  It’s nice to be in a church that takes the BIG, makes it feel small and simple, in order to connect and build community and friendships.  I am truly grateful to be in such a spirit-filled, healthy, and fun place.

I gave my heart to Jesus at nine years old at a youth camp I didn’t want to be at. I’m pretty sure I was there to give my mom a week’s rest from me but God had a much bigger plan. I started in the ministry in 1985 in the Evangelical Methodist Church in Odessa when I was 29 as the associate pastor. I am so blessed to be one of five pastors on my mom’s side of the family. I’ve led two churches as senior pastor before joining the staff at Beltway in 2005. I am blessed to get to minister in our marriage ministry and lead re|engage for couples, Unite for premarital and seriously dating couples and Foundation Groups for newlywed couples.

Marsha and I knew each other during high school but didn’t start dating until 1976. We celebrated our 42 anniversary in August of this year and can’t believe how fast those years have gone by. We have been blessed to raise two grown kids, Shane and Stacy (married to Monty). You just can’t understand what it is to love someone as much as you do your kids until you have grandkids. We have five incredible grandkids, Garrett, Mayce, Bryce, Blake and Braydon.

I love getting to minister to couples in every area of marriage and relationships. I love seeing God transform a marriage from one that is on the brink of divorce into a healthy, Godly marriage that He is using to change lives and marriages around the world.

I grew up in Plano, TX and moved to Abilene in 2009 to attend Abilene Christian University and play football. I immediately started attending Beltway Park on Sundays and soon got plugged into College Park. I was challenged by the community of passionate college students who were sold out to Jesus.  Long story short, I tore my ACL two times in nine months and had to give up football.  In this time of pain, God began to show me the call He had on my life and birthed within me a desire to reach others. Beltway has also had a profound impact on my wife as she and her family have been involved at Beltway for 20+ years.

Ashley and I were married on December 20, 2014.  I thank God for blessing me with the girl of my dreams!  Our daughter, Analeigh, was born in December of 2017 and has brought much joy to our family!  She also does a really good job of keeping us on our toes.  We are Cowboys fans, Baylor fans, and love traveling to the beach. I also enjoy backpacking and ice cream (cookies and cream)!

I am passionate about reaching and discipling students.  I believe Jesus loves using young people to spread His kingdom throughout the earth!  My family and I are humbled and excited to be a part of what God is doing in and through the people of Beltway Park.

My heart is to help people connect with other followers of Jesus and to do all I can to help others grow and mature in their relationship with Him.  That’s why I love what I do in working with our Groups ministry here at Beltway as well as with our Growth Track.  My job is my passion, and it is such a blessing to fulfill my Kingdom calling here at Beltway.

I joined Beltway as a pastor in 2006 immediately after graduating from Denver Seminary, having known several other staff members and pastors from Lubbock, TX when I was a student at Texas Tech University.  It was also in Lubbock that I met my awesome bride, Adina.  We married in 2001 and have two boys, David (born in 1998) and Connor (born in 2004).  We are officially a blended family in that Adina was a single mom with David when we married.  I officially adopted David in 2003, and then Connor was born the next year.

I absolutely love time with my family, hiking and exploring the great outdoors (my long term goal is to visit all our National Parks), good coffee, writing, meaningful conversation with friends, and snacks.

I grew up in Canadian, TX and was blessed to be raised in a wonderful home full of love and grace. Even know I don’t know how my parents were able to deal with the “heck” that I gave them all those years because even though they overwhelmingly loved me, my life was lived in darkness and my heart was not awakened to reality of life in God. But to almost everyone, I was the one that had it made and had it all together. Even I thought that, but I was lost in my own deception and sin.

I graduated from Canadian High School in 2009 and this life of loss continued through college. It was during my college years where I met the most the most incredible woman and person I had ever known. She was so different and now I can see clearly what I was so drawn to in her: It was the LIFE of God in her. By God’s grace, she married me in 2012. Because of Amber, there was a lot of outward change that took place in my life, but my heart was still lost in darkness. I claimed to be a Christian and I thought I was but now I realize I had no real relationship with God. There was no surrender, there was no dependence, there was no trust, there was no true following, there was NO love. Life revolved around ME, what I wanted, what I desired, what I thought was best. I did church, but I wasn’t the church. I was walking the path of my own way and was so good at wearing multiple masks.

In 2013 I graduated from Texas Tech in Lubbock and moved to Abilene where Amber was attending college at McM. I was an absolute mess for the first 4 years of our marriage. Looking back, Amber would say during this time that I tried really hard to take care of her with the love that I could give but I had little to no concern for anyone else. I would have to agree. Because of the condition of my heart, my life revolved around taking, not giving. This caused devastating amounts of damage to her and those around me because of the life of sin I was living and the choices I was making. The energy of my life was focused on trying to be someone I felt like I could never be (good) and hiding the darkness I believed would never leave (bad). I know this sounds absolutely bleak, but I’m building up to the good part! So stay with me. 

My end came at the end of 2016, life had crushed me. My strength to live was gone, the darkness was suffocating, and despair had overtaken me. My ability to control, manipulate, and maneuver my life was taken from me. I no longer could “numb” the depression and darkness that was pulling death’s curtain over every part of me. I felt like I had fallen into a place where there is no escape. Sounds like the end right? Well it was, the end of ME.

It was in this very place that I was awakened to the realization that my entire life was a “zero”, not just a little bit of my life, my whole life! And for the first time, I truly experienced godly sorrow for the wickedness of my sin, all the pain, all the hurt, all the suffering that my life had caused others in its entirety. God granted me repentance! It was at this moment that God was placing me into death so that He could bring me into HIS LIFE! He baptized me into Jesus through His Spirit and I was awakened in the power of His resurrection! 

In this moment everything changed for me, LOVE was born inside of me because the light of LIFE was alive in me! Simply put, it was my moment of death to life! (Born again!) God was opening me up to the spiritual understanding of scripture like Galatians 2:20 and Romans 6. 

When all of this took place, did I have all the language for this? Definitely not! But God revealed this to me: In my darkest season of life, I was running as fast as I could away from God but He was passionately pursuing me! God was at work. In the natural, it looked as if the enemy had won his victory over me, over my marriage, over my destiny, over my generational line, but in the Spirit, God was orchestrating my birth into HIS KINGDOM! It’s both amazing and perplexing! 

At the time of TOTAL LOSS, where death was the only thing visible, God rescued me! He pulled me out of death and put me into the LIFE of His Son! Because that is who He is and that is what He does! He restores, redeems, and makes new ALL things! Has it been perfectly smooth? Hardly! We’ve walked through many difficulties, trials and challenges. But because of God, I’m now running with Him instead of running from Him. I’m now leading my family to Him instead of away from Him.

My precious wife, bless her! The gratitude and thankfulness that I have for her is too deep for words to express. She could have left me in my darkest hour but she stayed and declared God’s love, mercy and forgiveness for me and over me. I experienced God’s living grace and her unity with the Father through her life! The same goes for her family and my family.

God’s patience, mercy and compassion still astound me to this day. There aren’t powerful enough words to describe the wonders of his grace, forgiveness and love! By the incredible power of His grace, God made the impossible - possible. Remembering and experiencing how God takes sweet brokenness and transforms it into something totally NEW, from darkness to light, death to life, is what stirs up His JOY within me! We have to remember His faithfulness to live in His joy.

Unashamedly I can say: Until 26 years old, my reckless life was summarized by these words: (pride, darkness, depression, anger, lost, broken, selfish and dead) 

But now because of JESUS my life is found alive in His words:

(Humility, light, joy, peace, found, whole, surrendered and LIFE) & many more! 

JESUS is the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE! God wants to place all of us into HIM! His purpose will be accomplished. 

I know that was a lot, but thank you for staying with me through it! Today, my marriage is alive and resting on the ROCK, we have two wonderful kids: Caroline Grace and Isaiah Daniel. We are experiencing a unity together like never before because of the unity that we have with our Father! My family has experienced the wonders of His grace time and time again! Beltway Park Church is our home and we are so thankful to be apart of this incredible family! 

Oh yeah! This is a bio for my position at Beltway Park Church! So how did I get here? Well right after God changed my life, I was in a season of searching because everything now looked completely different. There was a lot of unknowns and I wasn’t sure where He was leading me, but I was trusting him regardless. My family and I were completely in His hands. I found out about the internship program at Beltway. 

I spent a season as an intern with Beltway Park where I was able to work with Missions, College ministry and Student ministry. In this time I was asked to interview for a co-director position over Kids Club/Summer Club at BPC. I’m so thankful I was accepted for this position! It was during this time that God really developed His “Father heart” within me and gave me the vision to see everyone as family! Here is where my passion to live, speak and show others the love of God became everything to me!

I have been on staff with Beltway Park since mid 2017. Currently I have the incredible honor and privilege to work alongside Nathan and Faith in Student Ministry! I have been in this role since December 2019 and I’m beyond thankful for the opportunity to pour out God’s love and encouragement to our younger generations. The motivation of my heart is to see people awaken to the reality of LIFE in GOD. I want people to know God as Father and see who they truly are because of what Jesus has accomplished. I want them to know it’s not something for later, it’s something for now!

God’s pursuit of you is never-ending! It is eternal. He won’t stop until he has your heart and even when he does, His pursuit of you will continue! So with all encouragement, let go and surrender. Because in the end, LOVE WINS.

I’ve been teaching the Word of God since 1981 and in full-time ministry at Beltway Park since 2002.  My role as the Prayer & Freedom Pastor allows me to develop, coordinate and teach kingdom and freedom principles to all ages.  Our ministry trains and equips prayer partners in areas of freedom, intercession, healing, and prophecy, while also partnering with other ministries in order to activate believers to hear the voice of the Lord and release strategies to win spiritual battles.

I love to travel nationally and internationally imparting and teaching truths that set the captives free, turning them from darkness to light.  It is my passion to partner with other ministries and churches to build up leaders, by equipping them with Freedom material and tools to impart to their regions.

I’ve been married to my husband, Dirk, since 1981, and we serve together in the healing ministry as well as overseas missions to Ireland.  We’ve been traveling to Ireland since 2004.  We are parents to four grown children and their spouses, and proud grandparents of thirteen.  We love to spend time on our land and in our prayer garden interceding for Abilene and the nations.

After finding freedom and victory in my own life, by applying the Word of God, I believe the Lord has called me to encourage other believers to do the same.  My love for Jesus is the driving force that empowers me to equip others in order to set captives free, and help individuals cultivate a more intimate relationship with God.  My desire is to see the Body of Christ set free, walking in its true identity and using its gifts and anointing to advance the Kingdom of God here on earth.  I enjoy living the Restored, Renewed and Renamed life!

 Feeling so blessed to be back on staff at Beltway. I started working here after I graduated high school in 2005. I was born and raised in Abilene and grew up attending Beltway in the summer of 1998 when they were still meeting in the Chapel. I was a 5^th grader. We felt at home and have been here ever since.

Eventually I met my wonderful husband, Geoffrey Turner, in the North Foyer of the South Campus. I’ll never forget how handsome he looked that Sunday. Yall, he was wearing a vest and khaki pants! We got married on June 30, 2006, and we’re still having fun! We love to cook, travel, and take Copper (our golden-doodle) on walks. We have 2 beautiful daughters: Berkley Grace (born in 2011) and Ellie Katherine (born in 2013).

Berkley is a creator, artistic and a reader. She loves to sing and can name a song on the radio or Spotify before her dad or I can. She is loyal, brave and an includer; all characteristics that remind me of Jesus. She challenges me to think outside the box, try new things and be brave too.

Ellie’s name means pure light and that is who she is. This girl deposits joy everywhere she goes, keeps us laughing, and loves deeply, just like Jesus! She challenges me to be a compassionate, selfless helper. Ellie is always thinking of others. She enjoys crafts, all things girly and lots of glitter.

In this new season of ministry, I am thrilled to see what God desires to build using technology as a tool to advance His Kingdom, to love those we cannot see who are connected to Beltway Park through the Online Campus. Covid opened a door for people to attend church online and I’m so thankful for our leadership who insists on keeping that door open as we continue to engage, care for, develop, and grow the community who connects with us online.