In June of 2004 Dwight came to Senior Pastor The River Church. 

Dwight served as an attorney in Western New York for 11 years before God called him to close his law practice in 1991 to attend Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Following seminary Dwight pastored in three different churches in the Southeast.  While serving as senior pastor in Virginia Dwight also assumed the responsibility as the Supervisor of Virginia and West Virginia  overseeing the Foursquare churches in those two states.  On a national level he has served on the Executive Council and on the Presidential Selection Interview Committee for the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.

Pastor Dwight’s passion is to see people come into relationship with Jesus Christ and grow into their God given design.   Dwight believes that each person has a God sized and God given dream in their hearts.  It is his commitment to help people discover, become equipped and released to fulfill that dream.  

Linn serves as Co-Pastor alongside Dwight speaking from time to time on Sunday mornings.  Her responsibilities include overseeing Girlfriends (the women’s ministry of The River Church), mentoring women and biblical counseling.   

Although heavily involved in ministry at The River Church, Linn’s greatest joy is on the home front spending time with their eight children (ranging in ages 4 to 25): Abigail (25) is married and lives in California with her husband Ryan.  Tyler (22) is serving in the United States Army.  Autumn (18) lives on her own and works for the airlines.  Dwight, Linn and Emma (14), Graham (13) and Liberty (9) returned last August from China where they were able to adopt Isaiah Samuel (4). They are now in the process of adding another daughter from China.  She is 6-1/2 yrs. old and they have named her Jubilee.  Please pray for a speedy process so Jubilee can come home ASAP. Linn has completed 20 years of home schooling and continues teaching the three school age of the bunch.  

Dwight and Linn have been married for 29 years.   To get to know Dwight and Linn a bit more, read their public journal of their adoption of Isaiah Samuel. and now Jubilee.  It can be found at JourneyToMe.Com.  Go to the tab Adoption Stories and do a search for Isaiah Samuel.