Don Milstead, Senior Pastor

PastorDon@twc4u.org

Don Milstead has served Trinity Wesleyan as the Senior Pastor since 2006. He is a 1969 graduate of Southern Wesleyan University and currently serves as a member of SWU’s Board of Trustees. His pastoral ministry spans over 40 years and includes previous pastorates in five Wesleyan churches in North Carolina. Pastor Milstead’s wife, Carol, serves as the church organist. They have 2 married children and six grandchildren.

Gary Mosley, Music Director

Gary Mosley has served Trinity Wesleyan since 1988. He is a 1987 graduate of Southern Wesleyan University where he majored in Church Music. In 2003 Gary received his Masters of Educational Technology from MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe, KS. Currently Gary teaches full-time at SWU in the Computer department. His wife, Martha, is the Technology Resource Teacher at Daniel High School. They have 4 children and 2 grandchildren.

Nate Drake, Youth Director

Nate Drake and his wife, Mandy, have been serving Trinity Wesleyan officially since August of 2008 as Youth Directors and unofficially since 2004 as Youth sponsors. Nate's ministry has also included working as a sound technician, and he has also been involved in several dramas. Nate has a PhD from Clemson University and is a Math professor at North Greenville University. He and Mandy live in Central.

Dale Link, Children's Pastor

Born in Guatemala to missionaries Orvan and Virginia Link, Rev. Dale Link began his service to Trinity in 1980 when he and his brother, Glen, began a Children's program at what was then Second Wesleyan. In 1985 he graduated from Southern Wesleyan University, and married Sheryl (Tippey). Dale has also earned a Bachelor of Arts in Secondary Education, Spanish from Clemson University (1992) and a Masters degree in Modern Languages (Spanish) from Furman University (1996).

After serving as pastor for six years at Seneca Wesleyan Church, he then went into teaching Spanish at Seneca High School and currently at Tamassee-Salem Middle and High School. During these years of teaching, Dale and Sheryl have lead the Childrens' Church at Oakway Wesleyan (two years), here at Trinity (twelve years), El Camino Wesleyan, a Hispanic church in Greenville (two years) and now here at Trinity again. Other ministries have included missions trips and children's services for our District Family Camps.

Kevin Keever, Director of Worship Technologies

Rev. Kevin Keever has served Trinity Wesleyan since January of 2009. He is a 1995 graduate of Southern Wesleyan University where he majored in Youth Ministry and Radio/TV Broadcasting. He also has additional studies in Church Music. Prior to his ministry here at Trinity, Kevin has served the Wesleyan Denomination in various roles: Youth Pastor, Music Pastor/Worship Leader, Assistant Technical Director/Stage Manager for Exalt 94' (International Wesleyan Youth Convention), and Video Director for Orlando 96' (Southern Area Wesleyan Convention). Kevin has 2 children and lives in Easley.