Cherrydale Baptist Church [+]
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
To love God and people above all else

About Us

Meet Our Staff

Steve King, Senior Pastor
Pastor Steve King has been serving as the Senior Pastor at Cherrydale since October 2 of 1983. Entering his third decade of ministry, the challenges and opportunities are as inspiring to him today as they were more than 30 years ago. Pastor King has watched God accomplish marvelous things in the lives of His people, and under his leadership at Cherrydale, the church family reaches out to all areas of the Northern Virginia/Metropolitan DC region and throughout the world.
 
Pastor King loves people and communicates biblical truths with an extraordinary balance of truth and love. God has used Pastor King and the leadership of Cherrydale to embrace a vision to “spread a passion to love God and people above all else.” Through his weekly sermons, his compassionate counseling, and visionary leadership skills, the congregation of Cherrydale pictures a bright future as they move forward in this new millennium to reach the lost and broken community in their midst.
 
Wally Birdseye, Adult Ministries Director
Wally came to know Christ through the children’s “Back to the Bible” radio broadcast at the age of 5. He attended Cherrydale Baptist Church his entire life and participated in leading many ministries throughout those years. Marilyn and Wally have three children and 5 grandchildren. Wally’s desire is to see people connected with God through both our Sunday Classes and Small Group ministries. Acts 2: 42 says, “And the church continually devoted itself to teaching, fellowship, and prayer…”
 
Bob Glahn, Executive Pastor/Small Groups Pastor
Pastor Bob grew up in Falls Church and was led to faith in Christ by a classmate in High School. God has blessed Bob and his wife, Tannie, with four children, Kate and Rob, who are grown, and Alisha and Keenan, who are in middle school. Bob served with the missions program since he joined the Cherrydale staff in 1988. His responsibilities now include overseeing staff and church operations. Bob loves boating and camping. His prayer is Psalm 67, that those of every nation may praise the God of their salvation.
 
Ed Grudier, Missions and Outreach Pastor
Ed grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and came to faith when he was 18 years old. Shortly after getting married, God began to work in the hearts of both Ed and Kathy, instilling a deep desire to see the nations reached with the good news of salvation. They served for 14 years in cross-cultural ministry, most of the time in Turkey, along with their two children Philip and Amy. Ed's ministry focus at Cherrydale is to help those who are Knowing and Growing to find practical ministry outlets to Go and share the good news, particularly to those who have never had a chance to hear.
 
Ed jogs, mostly because he is middle-aged, but he loves to play basketball, play board games with his wife and children, and eat mint chocolate chip ice cream.
 
Ashleigh Hall, Interim Student Ministry Director
Ashleigh came to faith at a young age and has attended Cherrydale Baptist Church since birth. Her faith steadily deepened throughout her time in the CBC Junior and Senior High ministries, particularly towards the end of high school. When she left home to attend James Madison University in 2003, she became involved with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship on her campus and was greatly challenged to grow in her desire for the Gospel to be made real and lived out in her life. Shortly after graduating from JMU with a B.S.W. (Bachelor of Social Work) and minor in Spanish in May 2007, she felt called to return to the very Student Ministry that she grew up in and has a passion and love for working with these students. She loves to see a ministry comprised of young Christ-followers who want to live for His glory and be transformed by the power of His Truth! Ashleigh lives in Arlington and is engaged to John Lamkin. They will be getting married in early 2010.
 
Steve Lewis, Young Adults Director
Steve trusted in Jesus to be his Lord and Savior at an early age, and since then has been continually learning what it means to follow Him. With his life, Steve wants to know and love God, experience His best, and to be used by Him to help other people do the same—for God’s glory!
 
He graduated from Cedarville University with a B.A. in Organizational Communications. He is currently pursuing a Masters of Divinity degree at Capital Bible Seminary. Steve and his wife Amy were married in August of 2006.
 
Kendall Lord, Worship Pastor
Since his teens, Kendall has served in churches from several widely diverse denominations. As Cherrydale’s Worship Pastor, he brings that considerable experience to his ministry here. An accomplished keyboardist, Kendall oversees all of our worship-related ministries. Aware of our tendency to focus on “what we like” in worship, Kendall reminds us that worship is not about what delights us, but rather what delights the heart of God.
 
Herb Owen, Family and Children Pastor
Herb Owen was born in Richmond, Virginia where he attended Varina High School. He received the B.A. degree from Bob Jones University with a major in Bible and a minor in New Testament Greek. Then he received his M.A. with a major in Bible. He was ordained to the ministry in 1972.
 
He has served as children’s pastor at Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, Church of the Saviour in Wayne, Pennsylvania in suburban Philadelphia before going to Shades Mountain Independent Church in Birmingham, Alabama, where he was Children’s Pastor for almost six years. During this time he also taught Children’s Ministry courses at Southeastern Bible College. He joined the staff of The Chapel in Akron, Ohio in 2002 as Pastor of Kids ministry. He concluded his ministry at The Chapel December 31, 2008 in order to serve as Children and Family Pastor at Cherrydale.
 
He is married to the former Marilyn Morrison (the daughter of a pastor) who is fifth grade teacher. He’s the father of Timothy and Jonathan. 
 
Tim McGhee, Technology and Facility Manager
Tim is an American with the heart of a Thessalonian, the soul of a Roman, the mind of a Berean, and the strength of a Colossian. With experience in retail sales and management, expertise in web development with an emphasis on information structure, a passion for production, and a love for the Word of God and the God of His Word, Tim meets a unique set of needs at Cherrydale Baptist Church as our technology and facility manager.  In addition to his official responsibilities, he is committed to raising up the next generation of godly leaders by serving in our student ministry.  He is active on Twitter and Facebook, and is grateful for every day he has to be alive.
 
 
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Church Office is closed today due to this weekend's snowstorm.