Brian Spitzer
Iowa Church Planting Leader and Coach
PBSpitzer@aol.com
Grandview Baptist Church
4316 N. Ripley Street
Davenport, IA 52806
Phone: 319-391-4308
Fax: 319-386-5831

Brian has been a wonderful asset to our church planting movement in Iowa. For the past 3 years, he has been the chairman of the Quad Cities Vietnamese Church Plant Task Force and has been coaching our Vietnamese church planter since the beginning. A graduate of Dallas Seminary, Brian is presently an associate pastor at Grandview Baptist Church in Davenport where he has served for the past 10 years. He and his wife Barbara have been married for nearly 25 years and have two children: Bradley, age 19, and Brenda, age 16.

In His Own Words: "Working with church planting has been some of the most exciting times because I have seen God work in new and miraculous ways. The churches involved with this effort have seen their own congregations infused with new passion and spiritual vitality as they have reached out to the Vietnamese community with the love of God and the gospel of Jesus Christ."

Frank Cook
Systems Development & Church Planting Board Liaison
upbcfrankcook@aol.com
Union Park Baptist Church
821 Arthur Ave.
Des Moines, Iowa 50316
Phone: 515-265-5258
Fax: 515-265-5259 

Iowa was blessed when Frank moved into our district. Having been in ministry since 1973, Frank has ministered as a youth pastor, church planter, associate pastor, and senior pastor. He is a graduate of Denver Seminary and is currently  working toward a D.Min. degree from Bethel Seminary with a concentration in organizational systems. He has served as the chairman of the Church Planting Board in two of our BGC districts. He and his wife Kathy have two grown sons.

In His Own Words: "My passion is to help enable churches and church planters to expand God's kingdom by planting healthy churches."

Jarol F. Duerksen
Church Planting Recruitment
Jarol7@juno.com  
103 Ravencrest Drive
Iowa City, IA 52245
Phone: 319-338-4910
Fax: Call first

Jarol brings a lot of life to Church Planting in Iowa. He has been a pastor for 29 years in four churches. While on staff in Concord, CA, Jarol planted a church in Antioch, CA. He has a passion for planting churches in Iowa and serves on the district church planting task force team since it's inception. Most recently he just wrapped up 10 years of pastoral ministry in Iowa City. He and his wife Leah have been married for 41 years and have two daughters and a son-in-law who is also a BGC pastor.

In His Own Words: "My passion is for BGC churches and individual believers in Iowa to catch the vision that planting a church is not a loss of people and funds, it is a wise investment that will bring rich dividends."

Dan Maxton
Associate National Director
dmaxton@teamerica.com
TeAmerica
3301 Golf Rd
Eau Claire WI  54701
Phone: 715-839-0868 
Fax: 715-833-2107 

In His Own Words: "My passion is to see a growing number of our BGC pastors and churches catch the vision of raising a family of daughter churches and experiencing the joy of parenting."

Skip Hansen
Iowa District Head Dude
skip@iowabgc.org
PO Box 535

Eldora IA 50627

Phone: 641.858.3284

Fax: 641.858.2476

Skip Hansen assumed the responsibilities of Executive Minister of the Iowa District in January 2001.  He had previously planted and pastored churches in Alamosa, CO, Guernsey, WY, and most recently, Decorah, IA.  Skip obviously brings to the group a passion and a gift for reaching the lost and for expanding God's kingdom through church planting!

Skip received a BA from Kings College, NY, and a MA in Christian Education from Denver Seminary.

Skip and his wife, Linda, have two very talented and gifted adult daughters