Leadership

 A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Shawn Leach enlisted in the United States Marine Corps at the age of seventeen. While first stationed at Camp Pendleton, California, God blessed him with a Bible from a gentleman serving with The Gideons International Ministry. Three months later, Shawn had read it in its entirety and began sharing what he had learned with his fellow Marines, first in Iwakuni, Japan and then at Parris Island, South Carolina.
   Four years later, at Oklahoma State University God blessed Shawn again, first by introducing him to Wick Warden, an engineer who would teach Shawn the skills of discipleship, and then to Kelsey Chase, a dietitian who would become Shawn’s wife and partner in ministry.
   Eventually, the Lord led Shawn to enroll at Dallas Theological Seminary. Earning a Th.M. in Pastoral Leadership in 2005, he has since pastored churches in Oklahoma, Nebraska and Kansas. After seventeen years of pastoral ministry, Shawn is convinced that the key to church growth is active discipleship and Bible-based training.
   The Lord has blessed Shawn and Kelsey with twenty-two years of marriage and five lively children. When they are not busy homeschooling their family, Shawn enjoys riding his motorcycle or playing the guitar while Kelsey enjoys reading, studying the Bible and making new friends.