Favorite Scripture Verse: Philippians 1:6 "... being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus."

 

Favorite TV Show as a Child: Like Dave Willcock, it was "The A-Team." Sadly, I still have the introduction to the theme song memorized...  

 

Favorite Movie: I keep hoping that I'll find another - but it is still Braveheart. What an amazing movie!

Ideal Vacation: It would be some place very warm with great beaches, few tourists, and excellent food. We wouldn't have a lot planned - playing card games late into the night, sleeping in, reading some books, and playing lots of scrabble on my palm pilot by the pool.  

 

You Might Not Know… In the summer before ninth grade, I decided to memorize all of the capital cities of the world and succeeded. And I still remember most of them. (We had moved to a new city and I didn't know anybody. So I decided that I was going to train to be on “Jeopardy.”)

 

For coffee, you’ll find me at: Starbucks having a light roast coffee with a three-pump shot of hazelnut flavoring.

 

Bio: Pastor Matt grew up in Canada in the home of church planters and pastors. He surrendered his life to Christ on a mission trip at the age of eighteen. Upon graduation from high school, he moved to Minnesota to attend Bethany College of Missions. In his last year at Bethany, he did a missions internship in Slovenia (former Yugoslavia). In the fall of 1996, Matt began working at Bethany Church while attending Bethel Seminary in St. Paul. He graduated from Bethel with his Master's Degree in Christian Thought in 1999, and became the Senior Pastor of Bethany Church four years later. He is married to Noemi and they have one little girl named Adriah.