BRIAN HARPELL

BRIAN HARPELL has served in pastoral ministry for 42 years, the last 30 years he has been the lead pastor at the First Baptist Church of Everett, Washington. His doctoral degree is from Ashland Theological Seminary in Ashland, Ohio where his dissertation was Employing Spiritual Gifts for Church Growth so he has a passion for empower others to serve according to their gifting and passion.  His fifteen trips to Cuba to speak at leadership conferences and at the seminary resulted in a leadership book, Leading Your Congregation Toward God’s Vision, presently being used as part of the pastoral curriculum at the Baptist Seminary in Santiago de Cuba. 

He and his wife, Lynne have been happily married for 42 years.  They have two married children and two grandchildren.  For 16 years, Brian has been chaplain to the Everett Silvertips ice hockey team, and he continues to play ice hockey twice a week. He has said that ice hockey prepared him for being a pastor.