Pastor Randy was born and raised on a farm/ranch in Alberta, Canada. He reflects the saying “you can take the boy off the farm but you can’t take the farm out of the boy” in that he has a love for small towns and rural people. Randy spent several years farming before he realized God was calling him into the ministry. After earning his pastoral degree at Canadian Bible College in 1989, he began ministry as a youth pastor at Fort McMurray Alliance Church. Since then Randy has served as an associate pastor in Linden, Alberta, then as a solo pastor in Townsend, MT. He completed a master’s degree in Ministry and Leadership this year and has been serving as senior pastor at Plains Alliance Church along with his wife, Sharon, since October of 2009. Together, they have a son, three daughters and two sons-in-law.
Pastor John was born in Washington State and at the age of twelve moved to Dillon Montana with his family. Grew up going to church and in 1997/1998 went to Montana Wilderness School of the Bible located near Augusta Montana. After MWSB John went into construction where he was in the Masonry trade for several years. After an injury he went to serve at Camp Bighorn as the Operation Director from 2004-2007. Since January of 2008 he has served as an Associate Pastor here at Plains Alliance. John is continuing his education by taking the Ministerial Study Program offered through the Christian and Missionary Alliance and should see completion of the course in February of 2012. John is married to Gennifer and they have two kids Derick and Kimberly.
Heidi grew up in Eastern Washington. She attended Prairie Bible College for one year and transferred to Pensacola Christian College where she earned a B.S. in Music Education. Heidi, her husband Randy, and their two children began attending a C&MA Church in Thompson Falls, MT in 1997 where they quickly realized they had found “home”. Randy & Heidi were members of the C&MA church in Chinook, MT for three years before settling in Plains, MT in 2002. Heidi was asked to help in the Plains Alliance Church office in 2005.
