Tim serves as Executive Director of the Office of New Faith Communities for the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church. In this role, he oversees the discernment, formation, resourcing, and deployment of clergy and church teams as they co-create new places for new people to gather in communion with Jesus Christ. His work includes classic new church starts, multi-site and cooperative parishes, and faith-based social entrepreneurship rooted in the life of local churches. Following an initial career in software consulting, Tim has served for nearly twenty years in ministry leadership as a church planter, executive pastor, and lead pastor of a large multi-site congregation.


