Rick and Jan Thompson met at Wheaton Graduate School and their first year of marriage was on campus at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Today, their oldest son, David, is a graduate of TEDS and is serving with Samaritan's Purse as the Director of Operation Christmas Child for Central Europe, Central Asia and Eurasia. Derick is a worship pastor in Chicagoland and leads his band (www.strivemusic.com). Tiffany works in Washington D.C. and continues to be a singer songwriter (www.tiffanythompsonmusic.com). Rick and Jan have a passion to multiplying healthy churches globally with the Evangelical Free Church and now the Great Lakes District.
After thirteen years serving the Hope Evangelical Free Church of Dubuque, Iowa, God called them to Moscow, Russia from 1992-1997 as the EFCM Eurasia Director and a senior pastor of Moscow Bible Church. Rick served as the district superintendent in Texas from 1997-2004 and with the Great Lakes District since April of 2004.
Some of Rick's writings are available on our web page under Resources.