The Church Board of Kent Nazarene is pleased to announce that Rev. Ev and Rhonda Tustin have accepted the position of Lead Pastor. They will begin serving some time in March.

Everett and Rhonda Tustin have been married and in ministry for 27 years. They met at Northwest Nazarene University. Both Ev and Rhonda grew up in the Northwest. Ministry is both a calling and a passion for them.

Ev and Rhonda served in Youth Ministry for a number of years including a time at Enumclaw Nazarene. They have served as Senior Pastor at Mountain Home, ID; Georgetown, TX; Bellevue, WA; and Nairobi, Kenya. They currently serve as Global Missionaries with Nazarene World Missions as Directors of Church Development in the Baltics. They live in Poland and have planted several coffee house/churches called Sweet Surrender.

Ev and Rhonda have two daughters. Ariel (26) lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, Justin and their two young daughters. Autumn (21) is a student at Northwest Nazarene University.