Evergreen Presbyterian Church in Salem

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The Staff at Evergreen

Our ministry team is dedicated to equipping the wider community at Evergreen to serve and glorify God. We're a strong team committed to excellence, service, and partnership. Feel free to approach us with questions, prayer needs, or simply to say hello.

Pastor 

 

Dr. Christopher Bechtel

Pastor Christopher Bechel was selected to pastor Evergreen Church in January 2012.   He graduated from Covenant College with a BA in 2004 and from Covenant Seminary with an MDiv in 2008.  He was a Youth Leader at Faith PCA (Tacoma) from 2004-2006 and did his Internship at Cornerstone PCA in St Louis, Missouri from 2006-2008. 

Christopher worked as a Tutor from 2006-2009 both at Covenant Seminary and New College, University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Since 2009, he has been a Research Fellow at the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics. Christopher recently completed his PhD in Hebrew Bible at the Uninversity of Edinburgh. While a full time PhD student, Christopher regularly participated in shepherding God’s people by teaching the Word and leading worship at Holyrood Abbey.

Christopher is married to Jackie, who has a BA from Covenant College. Recent jobs included editing a Scrabble dictionary for Harper Collins and serving as media contact for the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics. While at Holyrood, Jackie took part in: a children's outreach, care of elderly and ill, and a committee rethinking home groups. The Bechtels have two children.



Christopehr Bechtel

Interim Pastor

 

Kirk Seyfert  email


Elders


Robert Seyfert
Jay Yang




 
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