Ministry Staff
Kevin MacLean
Lead Pastor
Pastor Kevin is thrilled to be joining the body of Christ at TRFEFC as the Lead Pastor. Prior to coming to Thief River Falls, Kevin served as an Elder and Worship Pastor with LifeSpring Community Church (Spring Grove, IL), a church he helped plant in 2010. Before LifeSpring, Kevin served for a year as the interim Worship Leader and Children’s Education Director at Lakeland Church (Gurnee, IL). Kevin is licensed with the EFCA and received his Masters of Arts in Religion from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Deerfield, IL). He and his wife, Alison, have been married for almost 22 years and have six amazing children: Anna, Nathan, Lily, Sháuna, William and Colin.
Kent Hudson
Associate Pastor
Kent joined the pastoral staff in June of 2018 as an interim associate pastor and became our associate pastor in 2019. He has been very active in a variety of lay leadership roles at TRFEFC including senior high youth director, worship leader, and elder (vice chair of elder board) to name a few. Kent and his wife Janell have two adult children, Erika and Andy (wife Tirzah), and one grandchild, Hadassah.
Support Staff
Ester Hanson
Administrative Assistant
Kim Schmitke
Care Coordinator
Sarah Dahlin
AWANA Coordinator
Nikki Lee
Nursery & Children's Church Coordinator
Pat Hetland
White Cross Coordinator
Elders
Bob Hultgren
Worship Commission
Rob Almquist
Nurture Commission
Kevin Barth
Facilities Commission
John Gallagher
Finance Commission
Ehren Hanson
Discipleship Commission
Mark Schmitke
Outreach Commission
Ron Trontvet
Church Chairman