Bible Fellowship Church
Intersection of Rt 131 and Brickyard Rd, Thompson, CT 06262(Note, use the link below, Google and Mapquest show the wrong location.) Get Directions
Steve Atkerson resides in Atlanta, Georgia (USA), with his wife and two teenaged sons. He also has a daughter who is married and walking with the Lord. Steve graduated from Georgia Tech and worked several years in industrial electronics distribution before heading off to seminary. After receiving a Master of Divinity degree from Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary in Memphis, he joined the pastoral staff of a Southern Baptist Church. After seven years in the traditional pastorate, Steve resigned to begin working with churches that seek to follow New Testament patterns for church practice. Steve is now an elder at the house church he helped start in 1990, is president of NTRF, is editor of two books, Toward A House Church Theology and Ekklesia: To The Roots of Biblical House Church Life, has written two works (The Practice of the Early Church: A Theological Workbook, and The Equipping Manual), and contributed to the tape series Searching For The New Testament Church. www.ntrf.org
Beresford Job
Beresford is a fully qualified Englishman. He has an English wife, Belinda, of twenty-seven years and an English daughter named Bethany who is twelve. They live in Essex, England, but try not to make too much of being English.....especially when they are in America! Beresford has been engaged in a full-time pastoral and teaching ministry since 1976 and has always had a special burden from the Lord to see Biblically based Churches come into being, the first of which he started in the late 70's. He travels widely with his family on both sides of the Atlantic helping to both start and nurture such Churches, and has been a recognized Elder in the Church he and his family are part of at home (in England) for over twenty-five years. He makes a comprehensive teaching catalog available of nearly three hundred talks on just about every aspect of the teaching of scripture, and is the author of the book, "Biblical Church: a Challenge to un-Scriptural Traditions and Practices" He can be contacted through the Chigwell Christian Fellowship website at www.house-church.org
Matthew Durning
Matthew Durning was raised in a Christian Home. He has lived in Connecticut for most of his life. In the early 1980's, his parents were early pioneers in the home school movement. He was home schooled K-12. At the age of sixteen, he felt a call from the Lord to go into the ministry. He served one "tour of duty" at Bob Jones University and majored in Pastoral studies. After returning home, he married the love of his life Karen. Today they reside in Putnam Connecticut. They have four children and are home schooling all of them. Matthew has been involved with the House Church movement for nine years now. He is the organizer of the annual New England House Church conference and is a recognized Elder in the local fellowship he is a part of. Before that, He was active in the institutional Church with teaching, preaching, evangelism work, and he also helped plant a church. Matthew and his wife Karen are very heavily involved in the Gideons International Bible Ministry. He has served as President of the Northeast regional camp for the past five years. As a representative of the Gideon ministry, he enjoys many opportunities to speak and preach in area churches. He is a partner with his father in a new home/log home construction business. He can be contacted through email at mkdurning@juno.com
