Executive
Minister
Dr. Paul Borden currently serves as Executive Minister
of Growing Healthy Churches, San Ramon, CA, serving more than 215
churches in Northern California and Northern Nevada. As a
international consultant, judicatory leader, former large church
pastor, and professor of homiletics, Paul knows both what is
required to transform congregations and judicatories and how to do
it. His book “Hit the Bullseye†has
been used by over 50 denominations in leading
change.
Previously he has served Executive Director, Teaching
Church Network, Minneapolis, MN; Director of Church Consulting,
Evangelical Free Church of America, Denver, CO; Executive Minister,
Co-Pastor Bear Valley Church, Denver, CO; Academic Dean, Professor
of Bible and Theology Western Bible College (now Colorado Christian
University), Lakewood, CO; Pastor, Bible Baptist Church, Trenton,
NJ.
Paul’s degrees include a Ph.D.
University of Denver (Higher Education Administration). Th.M.
Dallas Theological Seminary and a B.S. Philadelphia College of
Bible.
Find out more about Dr. Borden’s newest book “Assulting the Gates: Aiming All God’s People at the Mission Field†and other books by visiting our Online Store.
Find out more about Dr. Borden’s newest book “Assulting the Gates: Aiming All God’s People at the Mission Field†and other books by visiting our Online Store.
Administrator 
Prior to becoming the Administrator of our team in
1997, Pamela's primary focus was in the area of missions and
stewardship, in addition to her extensive background in banking
operations.
Pamela has been part of several non-profit
organizations and participates with groups of business leaders to
meet the needs of employers and the community. She has
extensive experience serving in church roles including treasurer
and moderator (her favorite) that are helpful in her current
role.
Project
Manager
Tom has been with Growing Healthy Churches since 2001.
Currently he is responsible for supporting our church planters and
managing ministry real estate.
Since 2002 he has also served as the pastor of The
Church On The Corner in Albany, CA in the East Bay by
Berkeley.
Previously he served 25 years in the corporate world
with GTE Corporation, which is now a part of Verizon. During his
tenure he was general manager for a $200 million business unit,
which accomplished significant improvements in quality and
profitability under his leadership.
His passion is preparing people for
God’s plans and purposes for them by teaching
the timeless, transformational truths of the
Bible.
He resides in Pinole, CA with his wife Dorothy.
His son Brett is engaged to Bekkah and lives in Ft. Wayne,
IN. His daughter Megan is married to Matt Meyer and they
reside in Denver, CO.
Tom’s formal education
includes:
- B.S. Business- Economics & Finance, Indiana University, 1979
- MSBA, General Management, Indiana University, 1986
- MBA, General Management, Indiana University, 1988
- MDIV, Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, 2004
Director of GHC Network 
JD has a wealth of experience in planting congregations, leading large growing
congregations, and assessing new church planters.
congregations, and assessing new church planters.
He is currently the pastor of Discovery Church in Elk Grove, CA, a congregation he started in 1998 He has also started two other congregations, one in Colorado and another in California.
He and his wife Lori are have four children and three grandchildren.
Speaker, Author, Design Consultant, & Biblical Storyteller
Teresa Flint-Borden is passionate about serving people – from her immediate family, to God’s family, to needs of the entire human family. She expresses her dedication for relating in holistic ways that interweave creativity, grace, and humor.
Teresa Flint-Borden is passionate about serving people – from her immediate family, to God’s family, to needs of the entire human family. She expresses her dedication for relating in holistic ways that interweave creativity, grace, and humor. As a social advocate, Teresa has received community recognition for her work with unwed mothers, cancer survivors, burn survivors and AIDS research and prevention. In the late 1990s, she embraced the role of advocate to clergy spouses and is becoming known as an expert-practitioner in this arena. She has mentored many women in the judicatory where her husband, Dr. Paul Borden, serves as Executive Minister. He leads churches in his region to adopt systemic change, and Teresa has observed the difficult impact that such dramatic “turnaround church transformation” often has on women in ministry and ministry families.
As her advocacy expanded for those who lead transition out of dysfunctional church systems, Teresa drew more deeply on her own experiences of discipleship, entrepreneurship, and family relationships. This resulted in her book, Women Married to Men in Ministry: Breaking the Sound Barrier Together (Abingdon Press, 2007). Using the book’s aeronautics analogy, moving toward “Mach 10 Ministry” means that women in ministry and/or married to men in ministry are essentially co-pilots; together they must face the critical realities of systemic church change. However, turnaround churches can only be led successfully by those willing to be transformed themselves. So, Teresa brings fresh insight for renewed meaning, purpose, and positive self-development.
Regional Consultant
This nationally known pastoral coach, congregational consultant, and former judicatory executive leads GHC congregations through effective assessments. Bill is a master in aiding congregations in moving from their current levels of ministry to higher and more effective ones that produce disciples.
During his 35 years of ministry Dr. Bill Hoyt has served as Pastor, Seminary Professor, Executive Minister of the Southwest Baptist Conference and a consultant to churches, denominations and other not-for-profit corporations. His three pastorates were in Big Springs, South Dakota; Spring Lake Park, Minnesota; and Escondido, California. For 28 years Dr. Hoyt taught courses in preaching, worship and leadership at both the Minnesota and San Diego campuses of Bethel Theological Seminary.
By virtue of his varied background, Dr. Hoyt has been privileged to observe countless churches from many different vantage points. The breadth of this experience enriches what he has to offer churches, pastors and executives.
Dr. Bill Hoyt is the President of NexStep Coaching and Consulting. NexStep is an organization committed to enhancing the ministry effectiveness of Christian leaders and organizations through executive coaching and consulting for organizational development.
He serves as a Board Member of the Charis Foundation, a North Carolina organization that provides counseling and care ministries to pastors, missionaries, their spouses and families. Dr. Hoyt helped form the Vietnamese Initiative that carries on humanitarian work in Vietnam and has started over 100 Vietnamese churches worldwide over the past nine years.
- Bachelor of Arts, Wheaton College, 1965
- Master of Divinity, Bethel Theological Seminary, 1969
- Doctor of Ministry, Bethel Seminary - San Diego, 1997
Director of Mission & DevelopmentRev. David J. Bennett currently serves as Director of Development and Missions for Growing Healthy Churches. No one is more effective in helping congregations increase their income than David. This former pastor, money manager and foundation fund raiser has been GHC's key staff member in generating literally millions of dollars for congregations and the region.
Previously he has served as a Field Representative for The American Baptist Churches USA; Financial Consultant for Merrill Lynch; Pastor of the Church of the Master in Ohio; Assistant Pastor of The Little Church in the Vale, Gates Mills, Ohio; and Instructor of Bible at the Moody Bible Institute.
David graduated with a M.A. from Ashland Theological Seminary in Ashland, Ohio; Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas Texas; B.A. from Cedarville College, Cedarville, Ohio; and Doctoral work in communication studies and Institute of Holy Land Studies in Jerusalem, Israel.
Pastoral Search Consultant
Richard Brock was raised in Dinuba, California and accepted Christ and received a call to ministry at the First Baptist Church there. He graduated from Lavern University with a BA and from American Baptist Seminary of the West in Covina, CA with his MA. He also studied Church Growth at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena.
Richard Brock was raised in Dinuba, California and accepted Christ and received a call to ministry at the First Baptist Church there. He graduated from Lavern University with a BA and from American Baptist Seminary of the West in Covina, CA with his MA. He also studied Church Growth at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena. Richard served three Baptist churches as pastor. His first Church was at First Baptist Church in New Plymouth, Idaho for three years, then ten years at Tulare First Baptist Church and he served for seventeen years at Church of the Foothills in San Jose, CA.
He left Church of the Foothills to go on the staff of Growing Healthy Churches where he served eight years as an Area Minister/Consultant in both South Coastal Area and Sacramento River where he played a major role in the restructuring of the Region toward Growing Healthy Churches. Now in his role as a Pastoral Search Consultant, he works with churches in pastoral transition helping church leaders to assess their strengths, needs and to envision a great future. He also works in the areas of recruitment of pastors, working with search committees and leading a core of trained interim ministers.
Director of Leadership Networks Dr. Tim Brown, the pastor of First Baptist Church in Clovis California, joined the GHC staff for two days of ministry each month as the Director of Leadership Networks. Tim already serves GHC as the coach to our mentors. He also leads his own pastoral cluster.
GHC, which is in the process of acting much more like a Kingdom Network than a denominational region, is faced with helping leaders within the network stay connected to the mission/vision and to each other. Many of our pastors are leading their congregations to conduct kingdom ministry across the globe. Our church planters are scattered across the United States and in other nations. Therefore maintaining meaningful connection with these leaders is becoming more difficult each year. That is why Tim Brown has been asked to assume this role. GHC is blessed with many gifted leaders who are pastoring established congregations and new church plants. GHC wants to assist these leaders in the Kingdom efforts God is calling them to lead.
Dr. Tim Brown is well qualified for this position. God has not only blessed his efforts as one of the most effective leader pastors in GHC but has opened up doors of ministry across denominations and geographical boundaries. Tim is highly respected by the leaders in GHC and by leaders in many other parts of our nation and around the world. He knows how to network the ministries over which he has a stewardship including ministries in his community, within GHC and beyond our national borders. He also has a desire to help others do the same. It is a pleasure to officially welcome Dr. Tim Brown into this key responsibility.