Staff & Leaders

Staff & Leaders

Associate Pastor

Ben Tyler

Ben came to Faith at age 15 and grew up in a ministry home. Sensing a call to vocational ministry,  he left the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2007 and pursued ministry training at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, IL, graduating with a B.A. in Youth Ministry in 20011. In 2010, he married the love of his life, Kim Tyler, and shortly after began serving in student ministry as a youth pastor in Rockford, IL, (2012-2018) and then as…
Senior Pastor
Pastor John Secrest

John Secrest

Pastor John came to a saving faith in Jesus in 1984 through Campus Crusade for Christ at the University of Kansas. After a season on staff with CCC he and Jessica got married in 1989 and moved to Chicago to attend Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. While getting his MDiv, John served as a pastor at the Arlington Heights EFC (now called the Orchard). The Secrests then served in Budapest, Hungary planting churches with the EFC. After a stint in Business…