Bard Letsinger

203 Green Gable Dr., Victoria, TX 77904

Home 361-485-0055 Cell 361-571-1282 e-mail bardstine@hotmail.com

PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT

To use contemporary, innovative methods to help seekers become believers and believers become fully
devoted followers of God. I am seeking a church or group who is not bound by the tradition of “we have never
done it that way before”, is not scared to take chances and is willing to do whatever it takes to reach people for
Christ.

PROFILE
Over 25 years experience acting and public speaking. Over 20 years experience in the church serving in positions
varying from Lay Youth Leader in a 100 member Bible Church to Couples Pastor at Fellowship of The Woodlands
(now Woodlands Church), one of largest and most innovative churches in the United States. Over 15 years Teaching,
Leading Small Groups/Mentoring, Developing and Implementing Communication Strategies, Developing Internal
and External Communication Materials, Marketing, Public/Media Relations and Leading Volunteers.

EXPERIENCE

Pastor of Spiritual Development/Connection February 2006 – February 2009

Parkway Church (1000 Adv. Weekend Attendance)
4802 John Stockbauer Dr.
Victoria, TX 77904

• Taught main service and led communion, baptism and baby dedication services various times during the
year. Did welcome, sermon intro, offering, announcements and closing or a combination of those elements
for most services.
• Part of the “Creative Team” that developed weekend sermon series and package consisting of music,
graphics, writing in house produced videos, creative illustrations and set design.
• Developed Special Christmas and Easter Services with Creative Arts Pastor, including recruiting and
developed teams of actors, singers, tech teams, greeters, etc.
• Taught the “101-Membership”, “201-Discipleship”, and “301-Spirtual Gifts” class.
• Developed strategic plan for connecting people in small groups and reorganizing Small Group Coaching
structure.
• Researched Small Group and Christian Education materials and oversaw development and reorganization
of Parkway’s Resource Room.
• Organized and oversaw Greeters and Bulletin ministry.
• Developed graphic packages and promotional campaigns (internal & external) for special services and
events.
• Handled and developed church media relations. Became one of the pastors local media came to for
interviews.
• Created “Parkway University” with classes to help the congregation in their spiritual development.
• Organized and hosted conferences such as I Promise and Fireproof as well as developed special community
assimilation events such as fish fries and movie nights.
• Together with my wife did counseling, especially couples counseling and marriage preparation.
• Redesigned weekly bulletin announcements insert to grab reader’s attention and promote better awareness
of church activities and events.
• Assisted in development and printing of annual Fall Small Group campaign where we produced and
published our own study that was done simultaneously by all the churches small groups and coincided with
Fall sermon series.

Examples of teaching style found at http://www.vimeo.com/album/113147

Examples of creativity and humor http://www.vimeo.com/album/114155
Couples Pastor: Small Groups September 2004 – February 2006
Fellowship of The Woodlands/Woodlands Church (13,000 Adv. Weekend Attendance)
1 Fellowship Dr
The Woodlands, TX 77384

• Assisted Pastor of Small Groups in implementing church wide small group initiatives.
• Co-led bi-weekly study and meeting of church’s Division Leaders (Deacons).
• Organized Couples Small Group Connections to help connect couples with a small group.
• Trained and developed new small group leaders.
• Organized and developed special Small Group services, Small Group breakouts at FOTW’s Innovative
Impact Conference, and helped host Saddleback Small Group conference on our campus.
• Assist Executive Pastor with strategic planning and organizing Men’s Wednesday morning Bible
Study “Iron on Iron” as well as prepared and taught lessons two or three times a semester.
• Wrote devotionals for Relational page of thelifecoach.org (now OneMonthtoLive.com)
• Taught “201-Discovering Spiritual Maturity” Class.
• Oversaw Communion and conducted Baptisms after every service.

Administrative Assistant / Registrar / Recruiter July 2002 – September 2004

Grace School of Theology
5800 Alden Woods Drive
The Woodlands, TX 77384 (Held this position while attending seminary)

• Assist new students with their Admissions Applications and Register students for class at the start of each
semester.
• Record student’s grades, update transcripts, and mail out grade reports.
• Manage schools office, phone list and student and donor databases.
• Development promotional materials and mail outs to promote school throughout the community.
• Respond to potential student questions via phone, letters,and e-mail.

Public Information Coordinator May 2000 - May 2002

Food for the Hungry
7729 E. Greenway Rd.
Scottsdale, AZ 85260 (Held this position while attending seminary)
1-800-248-6437

• Created communications pieces such as brochures, annual reports, press releases, child sponsorship
kits, fact sheet, and web pages,on time and under budget.
• Managed organization’s printing, including interviewing printers, obtaining bids on print jobs, storage,
and inventory of printed materials.
• Led Radio Strategy Team. Team members included the Vice President of Marketing, one department
head, and three directors, all people who were above me on the organizational chart.
• Implemented changes in printing procedures, such as rewording printed materials to give them longer
shelf life and using printers that specialized in particular formats, to save organization money.
• Developed organizations Five Year Radio Plan and implemented radio campaigns, including two
successful promotions with the K-Love Radio Network resulting in largest sponsorship drive in thirty-year
history of the organization.
• Traveled to Kenya and Guatemala with radio personalities to inspect organizations work first hand.
The trips succeeded in turning radio personalities from one-time promoters into long-term supporters of the
ministry.
• Developed procedures for contacting media in disaster and non-disaster situations to heighten public
awareness.
• Gave interviews to Mission Network News, Christianity Today, Word Magazine, 48 Hours, as well as
newspaper and television stations across the country.
Station Manager March 1995 - March 2000
KXBJ Radio, Victoria, TX (KSBJ Educational Media Foundation)
327 Wilson Road
Humble Texas 77338
(281) 446-KSBJ

• Prepared yearly operating budget and monitored station expenses.

Was responsible for keeping expenses within the budget.
• Recruited and oversaw army of volunteers who helped at all station
concerts, sharathons fundraisers and special events.
• Set agenda and lead station Advisory Board meetings.
• Developed and implemented strategies to promote the station in the
community with the goal of not only increasing listenership,but also having those listeners take ownership of
the station.
• Produced and promoted station concerts and other special events
including contract negotiations, creating promotional materials and working with local churches to secure their
facilities as venues.
• Interviewed, hired, and released station employees and volunteers.
• Received and deposited listener contributions.
• Increased listener financial support of station by over 600%.

EDUCATION

My goal in attending seminary was to better equip myself for a of full time ministry position in the church. The
majority of my seminary training outside of the Theology and Bible classes has been in Biblical Leadership and
examining effective church ministries with a focus on building and leading Small Groups, Discipleship, Education,
Equipping, and Assimilation Ministries. I have taken the bible track twice over, once at each school I have attended,
to get a better overview of scripture. I am only short Biblical Languages for my M.A. and M.Div, however, I have
complete classes in the use of such tools such as Logos, Bible Works. Lexicons, etc., to do language studies for my
messages.

Grace School of Theology 2002-2004

12 hours left in M.A. Biblical Leadership Program
24 hours left in M.Div. Biblical Leadership Program

Phoenix Seminary 2000-2002

M.Div. Biblical Leadership
42 Hours of work completed.

University of Houston –Bachelors of Science in Communications 1996

SECONDARY TRAINING
Frequently attend conferences and seminars to pick up new ideas and reinforce what I have previously learned.
These include the Willow Creek Arts Conference, Saddleback Purpose Driven Church Conference, Willow Creek
Small Groups Conference, Fellowship of The Woodlands Innovative Impact Conference, Fellowship Grapevine C3
Conference, and hosted such events as Saddleback Small Groups Conference, Saddleback Church Planters
Conference, Gary Smalley’s I Promise Marriage Seminar and Fireproof Marriage Seminar Simulcast.

REFERENCES
Randy Reeves – Executive Pastor Fellowship of The Woodlands/Woodlands Church
One Fellowship Drive
The Woodlands, TX 77384
281-367-1900

Michael Smalley – Author/Speaker/Counselor

9595 Six Pines Dr.
Suite 8210
The Woodlands, TX 77380
832- 631-6091

Scott Weatherford – Senior Pastor Fellowship of the Hills Tallahassee

930 Thomasville Road, Suite 106
Tallahassee, FL 32303
850-443-0880

Roe Ann Estevez -Marketing Director for Free Market Foundation

1801 Touch Gold Court
Rowlett, Texas 75088
214-235-6713

Mike Hurt – Senior Pastor Parkway Church

4802 John Stockbauer Dr.
Victoria, TX 77904
361-572-8340