Pastoral Network
The elders/pastors of PRN agree with it's Ministry Vision and Beliefs.
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Bill Butler
After college Bill began his career as a high school teacher and coach. Bill left teaching to begin a 20+ year career as a business owner and corporate executive. In 1994 the Lord called Bill to leave the corporate world and into ministry. After 2 years of preparation the Butler family began as a missionaries in Papua New Guinea to the Fore people group. Bill has served as a missionary, church-planting partnership facilitator, pastor and church planter in the USA, Asia, Africa, Central America and Pacific Rim Islands. In 2005 Bill became the Southwest Regional VP of Advancing Churches In Missions Commitment (ACMC) and also began Great Commission Alliance (GCA) building multi-denominational and multi-mission agency church planting partnerships in Restricted Access Nations. Bill and Joyce returned to Albuquerque to plant a church in the East Mountains in 2009. Bill continues to consult, teach and train. In 2024 Bill retired from Canyon Bible Church but continued to preach in churches needing temporary pastors/preachers which led him to work with other pastors to begin Pastors Resource Network to serve churches and pastors.
Luke Fender
Luke was born and raised in Wisconsin, spending most of his childhood in Milwaukee, and a year each in England and Germany. Luke was blessed to grow up with considerable exposure to gospel-centered Christian communities through the parenting and influence of his father, Peter, and church youth programs. However, it was many years later as a skeptical and selfish engineering and physics graduate student that these seeds were watered by glimpses of God in creation, a renewed interest in his word, and ultimately the conviction that He sent the Word to personally call even the most skeptical and wretched to Himself. In 2001 Luke married Melissa and moved to the mountains east of Albuquerque eventually finding their home at Mountain Christian Church (MCC) in Cedar Crest, NM where they currently worship (https://www.mountainchristianchurch.org/).Luke holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and works at Sandia National Laboratories; however, his strongest passion since 2005 has been to serve the local body of Christ with biblically faithful and theologically sound teaching. Luke has served two consecutive terms (2019-2025) as a Pastor/Elder at MCC where he currently leads an apologetics small group and is the local Outpost Director for Stand To Reason ministries (www.str.org). He enjoys recreating in the mountains on skis, bikes, or on foot (in that order) and camping with his family (Zoe Ellen, 12 and Josiah Peter, 8).