Our Team

Steve Johnson (steve.johnson@efca.org)
Director

Steve's expertise includes capital campaigns, vision building and strategic planning. He has a personal vision for creating an environment in which ministries can excel.  Steve uses his gifts and talents to help churches create such an environment by focusing on 1) vision building and strategic planning and 2) fund raising to provide needed financial resources for ministries.

Joining Ministry Campaign Services in 1997 and serving as its first director, Steve has over 28 years of fund raising experience and brings to his position an understanding of the funding process, long involvement in leadership positions in the local church, and an understanding of what God is doing in and through the evangelical church today. Steve is a member of Five Oaks Evangelical Free Church, in Woodbury, MN where he attends with his wife Deb.

David Viland (david.viland@efca.org)
Consultant

David has been involved in fund raising for over 20 years, in campaigns from $25,000 - $4.5 million, both in not-for-profit organizations and churches. One of David's passions is to see the local church vibrant in its mission as a result of healthy, biblically based leadership and governance. David first worked with MCS in 2001 and joined the staff in 2006. He has served as Church Administrator/Executive Pastor of Bethel Evangelical Free Church in Fargo, ND. While there he led the church through a large capital campaign, a major building & ministry expansion program, and an operational reorganization. The campaign was officially a $3 million dollar campaign that grew to $4.5 million in the second phase.

As Senior Consultant for Ministry Campaign Services, David facilitates strategic planning sessions, provides church governance training, and conducts/teaches the DiSC and Uniquely You spiritual gifts and personality profile instruments. He has a varied background of health care management, church administration and leadership in churches from 50-2,500. Previously, David served as a Long-Term Care Administrator, working primarily with church affiliated senior care/living environments at both the campus and corporate levels. David, along with his wife Donna, is a member of Bethel Church, Fargo, ND. They have two married daughters and 5 grandchildren.

Bob Gentzel
Senior Consultant

Bob brings a wealth of experience in local church ministry to the MCS team. He has many years of local church, stewardship, and fundraising experience that equip him well for work with churches. Bob's undergraduate degree is in Bible and Christian education.  He has Master's degrees in Pastoral Ministries and Philanthropy and Development.

For 16 years, Bob was in pastoral ministry--eight years as a senior pastor and eight years as a church planter. He and his family pioneered new churches in Alaska and Washington. Bob has been working as Senior Consultant for MCS since 1998. His unique combination of education, local church ministry, and funding resource development has prepared him well.

Bob has served as a teacher and elder in his local church, and speaks frequently in area churches. Bob and his wife Jamie have a son and two daughters.

Dean Engebretson
Consultant

Dean is a Senior Consultant for Ministry Campaign Services. In addition to capital campaigns, Dean works with church leadership regarding vision casting, leadership development, funding God's vision through stewardship campaigns, and church governance. As an ordained pastor, Dean has served the EFCA movement for 27 years. His ministry includes a church plant building project in northern California; an associate pastorate and stewardship campaign in San Jose, CA; 16 years as senior pastor in suburban Minneapolis completing two building expansions and three stewardship campaigns; and three years as Senior Consultant with MCS.

Dean's other ministry positions include chair of the North Central District EFCA Board, President of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Alumni Board, and Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Evangelical Free Church of America.

His education includes a Master of Divinity degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.  Dean has further training in T-Net Discipleship Training, Purpose Driven Churches, Willow Creek Leadership Conferences, EFCA Coaching Network and Doctor of Ministry courses in preaching and leadership development.

Dean and his wife Trudy live in Pinehurst, North Carolina.  He consults for MCS as well as serving as Senior Pastor of Christ Community Church.  Dean and Trudy have a married son living in Minneapolis and a son in college.