
Living Word Pastors
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Mac & Lynne Hammond
Senior Pastors
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Pastors Mac and Lynne Hammond
Mac and Lynne Hammond are senior pastors of Living Word, a large and growing body of Christian believers in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. Mac is the author of several internationally distributed books. He is broadly acclaimed for his ability to apply the principles of the Bible to practical situations and the challenges of daily living.
While helping her husband pastor Living Word, Lynne Hammond travels internationally as a teacher and author on the subject of prayer. The desire of Lynne’s heart is to impart principles of corporate and Spirit-led prayer to the Church throughout the world. Under her leadership, the prayer ministry at Living Word has become an internationally recognized model for developing effective pray-ers in the local church.
After nearly 40 years, Living Word’s church attendance has grown from twelve people in 1980 to an active church body of more than 10,000 members. Today Living Word sends the hope of the Gospel across the country and around the world through numerous outreaches and brings practical help and the message of God’s grace and love to an ever-growing number of people!
Jim Hammond
Executive Pastor
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Jim Hammond
Jim Hammond, along with his family, moved from Mississippi to Minnesota in his early teens. Jim has worked in various areas at Living Word since 1991 including Facility Maintenance, Accounting, Living Free Recovery Services, Maranatha Christian Academy as Athletic Director, and as Pastor Mac Hammond’s Executive Assistant for two years. Jim lived in Singapore from 2003-2005, where he studied at Rhema Bible Training Center. Pastor Jim is currently the Executive Teaching Pastor at Living Word and preaches sermons on an average of 38 weekends per year and has been consistently in the pulpit at Living Word since 2005. He provides oversight to LW’s missions department and Spanish-speaking church plant, Iglesia Espanol. Pastor Jim was a varsity basketball coach at Maranatha Christian Academy for 17 years. He coached both the boys and girls varsity teams over different periods of time, and eventually took the Maranatha Girls Varsity to the Minnesota State Tournament four times, where they won two back-to-back Class A State Championships in 2011 and 2012. Pastor Jim has made over 50 missions trips to the country of Indonesia and from 2006–2011 was able to oversee the planting and construction of five different churches on the Indonesian Island of Bataam.
Directors:

Brian Sullivan
Chief of Staff

Treena Haase
Deputy Chief of Staff

Rick Bruce
CFO

Ryan Watkins
Pastor

Heather Sibinski
Pastor

Layne Johnson

Kevin Fletcher
Accelerate Bible Training College Pastor

Susan Fletcher
Accelerate Bible Training College Pastor

Deb Larson
MCA Head of School

Ken Olson
Prayer Pastor

Tim Amstutz
Pastor
Campus Pastors:

Brandon Lyles
Northwest Site Pastor

Lexy Hill
Northwest Worship Pastor

Adam Krube
Northwest Connections Pastor

Lauren Stacy
Northwest Next Gen Pastor

John Gapp
Online Pastor

Angela Watkins
LW Women’s Pastor

Hugo Bellido
Iglesia Español Pastor
Kids, Youth, and Next Gen Pastors:

Dustin Sherry
Next Gen Pastor

Sabrinna Sherry
Assistant Youth Pastor

Ashton Harrison
Youth Worship Pastor

Virginia Shunkwiler
Kids Pastor
Birth–Kindergarten

Mark Harper
Brooklyn Park Kids Pastor
Grades 1–5
Guest Experience, Member Services, and Life Groups:

Folu Gisanri
Guest Experience Pastor

DuWayne Petersen
Member Services Pastor

Tammara Gisanri
Life Group Pastor
Living Word Pastors:

Trent Fletcher
Accelerate Bible Training College Pastor

Jessica Fletcher
Accelerate Bible Training College Pastor

Deb Campbell
CUFI MN State Director

Kent Otey
Missions Pastor

Nick Kinn
Evangelism Pastor

Baltimore Medina
Care and Counseling Pastor

Michael Minton
Care and Counseling Pastor

Roxanne Keller
Care and Counseling
Lay Pastor
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