Pastoral lead team

Sebastiaan and Eva van Wessem are the lead pastor at Thousand Hills. Sebastiaan grew up in the city of Hilversum, and has a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Amsterdam and a Master of Theology from Continental Theological Seminary / University of Wales. Sebastiaan is the founder and coordinator of the Europe Advance church planting network and serves as the General Secretary of the Dutch Assemblies of God (VPE). He regularly preaches both in the Netherlands and abroad, visiting places as far apart as the United States, Brazil, Suriname, Spain, Belgium, Austria, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Eva originally comes from Austria, she has spent most of the last few years living in Hilversum. Eva works as an office manager, but she also spends one day a week in the church office and is involved in communications and pastoral care.
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Jim Rossi is the Senior Associate Pastor at Thousand Hills. Originally from California, USA, Jim spent almost twenty years living in Brussels, Belgium where he taught at the Continental Theological Seminary before moving to the Netherlands almost six years ago. Besides helping Thousand Hills, Jim currently serves as the Vice President of Azusa Theological Seminary located at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) in Amsterdam. Also, he is currently a PhD candidate in Old Testament at the VU and the Field Moderator for the USA Assemblies of God – Netherlands field. Jim has been in ministry for 40 years and married to Dar for 38 years.

David and Margaret White have been Thousand Hills members since July 2007. Originally from Scotland, they moved to The Netherlands in 1987 and in 1999, spent a 2-year period in North Carolina, USA. David formerly worked as Clinical Quality Assurance Auditor in the pharmaceutical industry now retired and started his own Quality Assurance consultancy company. He is experienced in church development in the USA and The Netherlands. Margaret leads the Pastoral Care ministry in Thousand Hills together with Jobine Gunnink, and David is the business manager for Thousand Hills.