Kurt Holm, Pastor
Kurt, his wife Melinda and two boys, Jordan and Taylor, ages 20 and 16, have lived in the Walnut Creek area for over 20 years. Kurt and Melinda met in college at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo and married two years later. After studying at North Park Seminary in Chicago, Kurt completed a Master of Divinity degree at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena. For 14 years he served Hillside Covenant Church in Walnut Creek as Pastor of Student Ministries. Melinda teaches her passion of vocal music with children at Indian Valley School in Walnut Creek and teaches private piano lessons. Kurt loves all sports and extreme adventures including the startup and leading of The Creek.
Chris Gothold, Associate Pastor of Worship and Community Outreach
Chris and his wife Kirsten had their first child, Johann Ezekiel, in April of 2008. Chris and Kirsten met while Chris was the interim High School pastor at Peninsula Covenant Church. After graduating from UOP with a music degree (concentration in trumpet), Chris has done full-time ministry as a youth pastor, camp pastor and worship leader, and has served various short-term stints overseas in Bosnia and Botswana. He continues to study at Fuller seminary and he and his wife have a passion for worship and a heart to see communities transformed. Chris loves the outdoors, including hiking, surfing, camping and backpacking
Sabrina Gilliam, Spiritual Formation
Sabrina and her husband, Terry, have been a part of The Creek since the early days. They and their two boys, Jackson and Carson, enjoy BBQing with friends in their backyard and spending time in Tahoe and Florida. Sabrina is working toward a master's degree in theology with a biblical studies emphasis at Fuller Theological Seminary. Her favorite things to do are reading the Bible first thing in the morning with a cup of hot chocolate, water skiing, mountain biking and sleeping.
Wayne Hofer, Spiritual Formation
Wayne and his wife Caron live in Martinez. They have been married nearly 37 years, have two married daughters, and three grand-daughters. At The Creek, Wayne serves on the spiritual formation team and the Leadership Team. He leads a life group, and with Caron, serves on The Creek hospitality team. Wayne retired from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2001 after 36 years as an electrical engineer. He is a fly fishing fanatic and enjoys woodworking. His passions for The Creek include strong godly leadership, church growth, and understanding of cultural issues that impact The Creek.
Cynthia Sevin / Lori MacDonald, Creekids
Cynthia has always had a passion for teaching. After graduating from Fresno State, she taught science and ESL classes at Antioch High School for nearly 15 years. She has been involved with the creekids ministry at nearly all age and grade levels, in addition to serving on other creek ministry teams. Her passport includes mission work in Croatia, Nepal and France. She and her husband, Eric, are active members of a non-profit organization started by his family. They enjoy spending family time with their two young daughters swimming in their pool, sailing the San Francisco Bay and teaching their girls about God’s love.
Lori brings a wealth of backgkround and enthusiasm to the position of Grade School Director of Creekids. Before she was a full time mom to Connor, born in 2008, she taught math at Castro Valley High School. We have been blessed to have her as a Creekids teacher for the last several years.
JD Sarginson, Youth Intern
JD was born in Walnut Creek and lived in Contra Costa County for most of his life. He grew up in a Christian home with two unbelievably supportive parents, a younger brother, Brad, and a younger sister, Kelly. There was also lots of extended family nearby.
He feels incredibly blessed to have grown up attending Hillside Covenant Church, where he was cared for in the nursery, the high school group, and everything in between. By the end of high school, JD began to let sports move to the periphery of his life, and became much more involved in high school youth group where he began volunteering to help out with the middle school youth group. This led to an internship and then the job of Director of Student Ministries.
He loves working with students, and especially enjoys getting to walk with them as they wrestle with tough questions and begin discovering how to use their gifts to serve God, the church, and the world.
In his free time he loves to read, share meals with friends, play or listen to music, watch movies and follow sports, especially hockey.
