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Pastor Dan Secrist Senior Pastor

Our senior pastor, Dan Secrist, was born in Olympia and spent most of his childhood right here. Some of his ancestors actually came here in covered wagons and homesteaded in the mid-1800s. His grandfather pioneered churches in this area, and his father was a carpenter whose accomplishments included building 9 churches.

He attended Assembly of God churches and was active in ministry at an early age with youth, Bible quiz and missions. He graduated from Northwest University in Kirkland, WA and returned to Olympia to become the youth pastor at Evergreen Christian Community.

In 1970 he joined Youth With A Mission and ministered around the world for the next 9 years. He pioneered works in Spain, Morocco and Argentina. To date he has visited 80 countries and continues to carry a burden for getting the gospel into all the world. A keen interest of his is reaching out to the persecuted church, particularly in restricted countries. Some of his more recent trips include Guatemala, Cuba, Sudan and Argentina.  He is fluent in Spanish and preaches in the Spanish language.

In 1977 he married Susan Forcier and they have 2 children: Justin and Tembi.

While in Argentina, they felt God's leading to pioneer a church in the Northwest and on December 9, 1978 they began the first service of what today is Faith Assembly of Lacey. The church has experienced remarkable blessings of God and continues to grow and reach out to the community and to the world with the Good News of the love of God. Staff continues to be added, freeing our pastor to pursue his vision of prayer and preaching, leading and reaching out both at home and abroad.

His beloved wife, Susan, died in January of 2007 after a 12 year battle with breast cancer. Just 10 days later their first grandchild, Micah Jacob Secrist, was born.

After a year of being single he married Anita Wheeler on April 5, 2008.  They attended Bible school together have known each other for 44 years.  Anita’s first husband, Paul Wheeler, pastored for many years until she was left a widow in 2001.  Her calling and life experience prepared her well for ministry here.

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