Pastor Ryan graduated from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in May of 2006. During seminary, Ryan served 3 years as the associate pastor of youth and worship at an established Baptist General Conference church plant. He also served one year as the interim director of worship at a large EFCA church.
Prior to seminary, Ryan and his wife served as missionaries with the EFCA in Bucharest, Romania. They spent three and a half years there. Ryan led worship and the youth ministry of an English-language church plant. Kristin taught in a school for missionary children.
Ryan and his family moved to Edgerton in August of 2006 when they began ministering since then by serving at Cornerstone Free Church in Pipestone and training a core group of people from Edgerton in preparation to begin Living Hope.
Living Hope began public services in August 2007 and is growing steadily. Lives are changing as people from many paths of life join in sharing the hope that fills our lives.