Interim Pastor – Rev. Joel DeSelm
Pastor Joel DeSelm has served the Lord as a teacher/coach in the public schools and then as a pastor for over 40 years. Joel has an extensive teaching ministry, having spoken in hundreds of camps, conferences, churches, seminars, and retreats both in the United States as well as overseas. He has led groups to the Holy Land five times and has published two devotional books “Lessons from the Land” and “More Lessons from the Land,” practical tools to connect biblical insights from the land of Israel with the everyday lives of believers.
Pastor Joel and Judy have been involved in interim pastoral ministry the past nine years. They have served five churches in the Michiana area which have been “in between” ministers. His undergraduate degree is from Ball State University, and he holds Masters Degrees from Indiana University and Huntington University. An ordained minister in the Missionary Church, he and his wife, Judy, live in South Bend, IN and have three married sons and six grandchildren.