NICOLE BLOYER
Children's Ministry and Administration

Originally from Kansas, I moved to Bend with my husband Andy in May of 2008. We visited Antioch our first Sunday in town and immediately felt like it was home. I ended up coming on staff part-time about a month later to do children's and general administrative work.

GARY CHRISTENSON
Creative Arts Director

I met my wife last year while living in Maui. We became engaged on the island and got married in southern California in October of 2006. After the honeymoon we packed up a rental car and moved here to Bend, just cause! We moved here without knowing anyone, we didn't own a vehicle, we had zero hookups, and no sweet jobs. It was a step of faith in our new life together and we couldn't be more stoked about what God is doing here in Bend!

COURTNEY CHRISTENSON
Director of Compassion and Advocacy

Gary and I moved to Bend in November, 2006, the week after our honeymoon. We didn't know a soul in Bend, didn't have jobs, didn't own a car and we moved into a duplex we rented over the Internet. Since that week, we have been through too many crazy, terrible, wonderful and unexpected adventures and twists in the road to not be convinced that we are right in the center of God's will. Currently, I work two days a week at Tetherow Realty as a Sales Office Coordinator and hopefully I will be spending the other three days a week at Antioch working on the "abroad" portion of Antioch's commitment to be a Missional church. I am thrilled that God's plan has led us to Antioch and am incredibly excited to see what He is going to do.

RICK GERHARDT
Apologetics Director

I’m an Avian Ecologist (bird guy).  By God’s grace, my passion for owls and other birds of prey has enabled me to travel to much of North and South America and the Caribbean conducting or presenting my research.  But I’m even more excited about the overwhelming evidence God is graciously providing our skeptical generation for His existence and the way Christianity uniquely makes sense of the world.

KIM HUNT
Art Director

I have lived in Bend off and on for 10 years. My favorite thing to do is travel and read! I currently work fulltime for Antioch as the Office Manager.

CAITLIN QUERIO

My bio has changed significantly in the six months.  In May I graduated from college, in June I got married, and at the end of July my husband & I packed our lives up into a u-haul trailer and road-tripped across country from Chicago to Bend.