Leadership
Transitional Leadership Team
The Transitional Leadership Team are eight servant-leaders from TCC who are leading this church through the first year of public worship, or until the leadership prescribed by the TCC constitution takes place. This team includes Charlie DeZiel, Brian Haydon, Bryan Lair, Luke Rupnow, Stefanie Wiesneski, Nick Wiesneski, and Steph Tracy.
Pastor - Bryan Lair
Bryan is one of the pastors of Trinity City Church. He also works at a coffee house on Grand Avenue and rambles on a blog called One Resolve.
Before coming back to his home state of Minnesota, Bryan served as the College Ministry Director and as an Elder at Evanston Bible Fellowship in the Chicago area. Bryan graduated from Northwestern College in St. Paul, MN, with a B.A. in Biblical Studies, and he also has a Master of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, IL.
Bryan and his wife have been married 7 years, and they have three kids. They both grew up in southern Minnesota and lived in the Twin Cities while attending Northwestern College, which is where they met while serving as Resident Assistants. They currently live in the Merriam Park neighborhood of Saint Paul.
Some of Bryan's favorite things about his city include viewing downtown from the Smith Avenue High Bridge, eating blucy burgers from the Blue Door and deep dish pizza from the Italian Pie Shoppe, and living in an area that is second only to Boston in the number of colleges and universities per capita.
Pastor - Nick Wiesneski
Nick is one of the pastors of TCC. He is also owner and operator of Vantage Point Design, a web and graphic design buisness. After graduating from The University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied Mechanical Engineering and English, Nick worked with Cru in Madison and Brazil. Nick and his wife live in the Highland Park neighborhood of Saint Paul.
As an avid learner, Nick would like to learn how to do almost everything, and enjoys a variety of interests: cars, motorcycles, driving, model-building, target shooting and hunting, reading, writing, poetry, spelling, Frisbee, basketball, exploring and experiencing God's creation, camping, hiking, canoeing, woodcutting, fire-building, woodworking, metalworking, disassembling and/or fixing anything, photography, and photo editing to name a few.
On any given day at TCC, you might find Nick anywhere from the office to the front yard; or from the super-secret attic to the sub-basement boiler room, depending on what's going on that day.
Pastoral Assistant - Charlie DeZiel
Charlie is the Pastoral Assistant to Pastor Bryan at TCC. He works part-time as a software engineering contractor and is a Master of Divinity student at Bethlehem Seminary in downtown Minneapolis.
After growing up in Michigan's glorious Upper Peninsula, Charlie moved to the wilderness of New Hampshire, where he graduated from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in computer science. Since college, Charlie has acquired a mix of ministry and computer science experience. He has served on staff with the Navigators Christian Fellowship at the University of Minnesota and currently volunteers as a Shepherd for the Navigators' nationwide college ministry staff training program. He has also worked as a software engineer for Accenture and as a computational biology researcher for Microsoft and Dartmouth College.
In addition to ministry and the nerdiest of computer research, Charlie enjoys the outdoors, food, people, controlled fires, sweet books, and Batman.