Kurt D Wolfe followed the footsteps of his father and rejected church and religion until he entered the 7th grade and began to hang out with a Methodist youth group. Through their friendship and their teaching about the love Christ he came to believe in Jesus Christ and began following Him.

Kurt graduated from Washburn High in 1970 and went to one year of community college, but he was undisciplined in his studies and also experienced a broken heart.

He went down to speak with the Army, Marine and Navy recruiters and ended up serving four years in the Marines, entering in 1971 just as the Viet Nam War came to a close.

Kurt was a Communications Navigation MOS with the Air Wing and he became very involved in ministry with Marines.  First with the Santa Anna CSO, and then by starting the Yuma Word Herd while stationed in AZ.

 After his discharge he married Sandy Wells, a Navy nurse he met while in Iwakuni, Japan.  They soon settled in Minneapolis. Kurt returned to school and graduated with a BS.  He worked in marketing for several years before deciding to enter Bethel Theological Seminary full time. Sandy was all for it and they moved into Seminary housing for the next three years with their three little girls.

Kurt had been involved with the PCUSA from eighth grade through the last year of Seminary. At that time he discovered that their leadership did not uphold scripture as authoritative, resulting in their condoning sinful behaviors.

Kurt began looking into serving elsewhere, and the BGC asked him to try and plant a church in the Tampa FL area.  They would pay his salary at a 20% decreasing rate over five years. His family of five moved there and began having services in their home with a couple other people they had met.

Over the course of several years they grew to just under fifty members, and bought a property for the church. The church stayed at around fifty people over the next year and they were unable afford both the property and his salary, despite Kurt's attempt to earn extra income from a part time lawn service he started.

Kurt resigned and took a job selling new and used cars in Tampa while searching for another church. After about a year of searching he learned of an opening at McMicken Heights Baptist Church in SeaTac, WA, from Jack Bergeson, a trusted friend of many in that church. He accepted their call to begin ministry here in April 1991.

The Wolfes have been married 31 years and raised three daughters who are all now married and are involved in the body of Christ. They will tell you that their children and grandchildren are their greatest source of joy from God.