Trinity Presbyterian Church

Meet Our Pastors

Greg Thompson, Senior Pastor, Pastor for Worship
Greg became senior pastor at TPC in 2006. He served as Reformed University Fellowship campus minister at the University of Virginia from 2000-2005. He is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and Covenant Theological Seminary and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Theology at the University of Virginia. Greg and his wife Courtney have three daughters.

Wade Bradshaw, Pastor for Mission
Wade served as a veterinary missionary in Nepal for three years and worked at L'Abri in England for 12 years. He has also served the Lord at the Francis Schaeffer Institute of Covenant Seminary in St. Louis and as pastor of the International Presbyterian Church in Liss, Hampshire, England. Wade and his wife Chryse have four children.

John Cunningham, Pastor for Shepherding
John has served on the staff at Trinity since 2001 and was ordained to pastoral ministry in 2007. He holds degrees from Bowling Green State University, Colorado Christian University and Yale University and is a Ph.D. candidate in Theology, Ethics, and Culture at the University of Virginia. His dissertation is on theological conceptions of beauty, and will look at the thought of Jonathan Edwards. John sees his varied academic interests in art, aesthetics, counseling, philosophy and theology as engaging in the question of what it means to be human in relation to God and the world. John and his wife Susan have a son and a daughter.

Tony Giles, Pastor for Leadership Development
Tony has served in various capacities at TPC since 1984 and has been involved in discipleship ministries since his days on staff with Young Life. He recently served as one of 80 mentor/facilitators for a gathering of 550 young leaders from all over the world to develop the next generation of Christ-centered leaders at the Lausanne Younger Leaders Gathering in Kuala Lumpur. Tony is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and Reformed Theological Seminary. He and his wife Mary Lynn have two daughters.

Mark Hutton, Pastor for Families
Mark was raised in Bristol, TN, and graduated from Carson-Newman College. He and his wife Sherry have three incredible sons. In 1993 Mark entered ministry with Young Life and stayed with them until he joined the staff of First Presbyterian Church of Chattanooga, TN, in 2001 as director of student ministry. In 2003, Mark was awarded the Dora McClellan Brown and Timothy Scholarship from the Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation which allowed him to attend the Beeson School of Divinity in Birmingham, AL, where he earned an M.Div. While in Birmingham Mark served at Altadena Valley Presbyterian Church and as Pastor of Brook Highland Community Church. He joined the Trinity staff in 2006 and was installed as Pastor for Families on March 4, 2007.