A combination of staff and congregational leaders attend to the operations and growth of All Pilgrims Christian Church.
All Pilgrims Christian Church is served by our pastor, the Rev. Greg Turk; our Minister of Music, Alex Johnston; Choir Director, Scott Fikse; and Office Manager, Jeremy Matheis. Administrative ministry is offered by the Coordinating Council, its officers, and committees; spiritual care is provided by the Spiritual Care team.
The Rev. Gregory Turk was called to All Pilgrims in April 2010. Greg is an unpretentious, kind person who is passionate about leading our faith community to display the love of Spirit to all. He has a passion for healing (including from religious abuse) and spiritual growth, social justice, urban ministry, and reconnecting to eco-spirituality that is so often forgotten in Western Christian traditions.
His background includes serving a Spanish-language church in Fort Worth, Texas, working with gang-involved people in South Central, LA, Ft. Worth, and Kansas City, and expanding our All Pilgrims' ministries to people who are homeless and to the LGBTQ community. In addition to a Master of Divinity degree, Greg has earned a certificate from the Seminary of the Wild Earth's yearlong program. His spirituality includes eco-spiritual wisdom and practices, including Wild Church, to experience the beauty of the Spirit and the sacred, exquisitely mutual interconnection of the human and more-than-human world.
“God loves you, and there’s nothing you can do about it” is a welcoming phrase of Greg's that greets us every Sunday in worship. It is an expression that calls us to follow in the Way of Jesus as we grow into our own wholeness, celebrate our being on our journey together in community, and are given to the good and faithful work of co-creating the world as God dreams it to be.
Some words Greg’s parishioners have used to describe him are high-energy, gifted preacher and teacher, passionate, socially conscious, peacemaker, and a good sense of humor.
