Jay Forseth
Jay has been the Lead Pastor of the Columbus Evangelical Church for the last 9 years. He is the former Athletic Director and Vice President of Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana. He holds an undergraduate degree from Northwest Nazarene and a master’s degree from Idaho State University. He and Lisa have two children, Sarah and Josiah. His favorite hobbies are hunting, fishing, camping and keeping up with the Denver Broncos.

Jay is licensed and ordained in the Western conference of the Evangelical Church.

Loren Eder
Loren is the Associate/Youth Pastor and go to guy of the Columbus Evangelical Church. He actually fills lots of roles around here as our Associate Pastor, but is also spending time pouring into the lives of our Jr. High and High School students.

Loren lived and worked on the family farm/ranch north of Columbus for many years.  It was in 2000 that God called him into the ministry to be a servant. Loren holds a master of ministry degree from the Pacific Evangelical School of Ministry and is licensed and ordained in the Western Conference of the Evangelical Church. He and his wife Michelle have two beautiful daughters, Melissa and Emily.

Josh Daniels
Josh is our Children’s Pastor. He is the newest (not to mention youngest) kid on the block. His first taste of this area came from studying at ABC Bible College on the campus of Beartooth Mountain Christian Ranch.

He and his wife Summer are excited to be here and working with all the younger children.