Shel Boese
Spiritual Director/Pastoral Elder
Shel (Shelby) joined us in August 2017. Shel is here to encourage us in revitalizing. He has served most recently in church transition/revitalization work at Bayshore Church in Sarasota, FL helping them achieve major changes in location, identity/vision, and even a denominational realignment. In that process, he helped facilitate three additional churches in different denominations, network and connect to find better spaces. He led a new site plant/start for a mega church in Toronto,ON called The Meeting House; and was a Christian & Missionary Alliance District church planter, then lead pastor in Sioux Falls, SD prior to that. His first years of ministry were spent as a university/young adult pastor in a large Assemblies of God (sister church to the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada) church, also in South Dakota.
In his free time he enjoys playing board games with his kids, training in the gym, reading theology, and he is looking forward to taking up kayaking again (in waters without alligators!). He also has a keen interest in Eastern Orthodoxy, Wesleyianism, Anabaptism/Neo-Anabaptism and Pentecostalism. More recently he has started looking at the Ana/Baptist intersections in North America.
He has a doctorate (United Theological Seminary, Minneapolis/St Paul, MN) with a dissertation on role of the play of the Holy Spirit in worship and how spiritual gifts empower persons towards liberation (he's a Rev’d Dr., but would rather be called Shel or just Pastor). His Masters of Divinity was earned at North American Baptist Seminary (NABS) now Sioux Falls Seminary and is a current affiliate faculty member and past adjunct instructor. He is open to informal spiritual direction and loves to meet new people. Feel free to text, call, email or connect with him on social media @shelboese.
Spiritual Director/Pastoral Elder
Shel (Shelby) joined us in August 2017. Shel is here to encourage us in revitalizing. He has served most recently in church transition/revitalization work at Bayshore Church in Sarasota, FL helping them achieve major changes in location, identity/vision, and even a denominational realignment. In that process, he helped facilitate three additional churches in different denominations, network and connect to find better spaces. He led a new site plant/start for a mega church in Toronto,ON called The Meeting House; and was a Christian & Missionary Alliance District church planter, then lead pastor in Sioux Falls, SD prior to that. His first years of ministry were spent as a university/young adult pastor in a large Assemblies of God (sister church to the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada) church, also in South Dakota.
In his free time he enjoys playing board games with his kids, training in the gym, reading theology, and he is looking forward to taking up kayaking again (in waters without alligators!). He also has a keen interest in Eastern Orthodoxy, Wesleyianism, Anabaptism/Neo-Anabaptism and Pentecostalism. More recently he has started looking at the Ana/Baptist intersections in North America.
He has a doctorate (United Theological Seminary, Minneapolis/St Paul, MN) with a dissertation on role of the play of the Holy Spirit in worship and how spiritual gifts empower persons towards liberation (he's a Rev’d Dr., but would rather be called Shel or just Pastor). His Masters of Divinity was earned at North American Baptist Seminary (NABS) now Sioux Falls Seminary and is a current affiliate faculty member and past adjunct instructor. He is open to informal spiritual direction and loves to meet new people. Feel free to text, call, email or connect with him on social media @shelboese.