Very Rev. Brian Wolthuis
Rector, Canon, Dean
Brian first knew a call to pioneering work in late college as he was meeting his wife and best friend, Amy. He was immersed in the revival season at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, and in the Vineyard Movement, where he began to discern a calling to ministry and church planting. After graduating from Hope College with a degree with Art & Philosophy, and marrying his beautiful bride, Brian completed a pastoral training internship at Lakeshore Vineyard and then served as an associate Pastor, living on rice, beans, and ramen noodles. In 1999, he and Amy resigned from their work to explore more simple ways to be the church. This journey took them to California and back to learn community with a band of Jesus-followers under the leadership of Todd Hunter. Once back in Holland, Brian and Amy dove into a life of organic and practical ministry and sacrificial hospitality. Brian became a licensed builder to bring home the bacon, helped start three different businesses with missional intent, planted and pastored a house church for seven years, founded 3-Sixty (a neighbor-led nonprofit), and started a family. The intensity of these years (whew!) led a deep re-evaluation in 2008-09. Since, he has sought to learn and live a more centered and sustainable life. This turning taught him how to pray and rest, lean on Grace and the Holy Spirit, laugh more, and toward the discovery of his true vocation as an Anglican Priest. Brian was ordained as a Priest in the summer of 2013, while planting All Saints Anglican Church. He, his wife Amy, and four dynamic and creative teens, continue to live in the core of Holland, MI. This is still where they are working out their faith through loving neighbors, building disciples and learning how to cook a mean rice & bean bowl, sometimes now with bacon.
Fr. Miguel Cruz
Assistant Priest
Miguel was born on the East Coast and raised there and on the east side of Michigan. Like Father Brian, he was at Hope College in the 90’s just after the revival had swept through the campus. Miguel fell in love with West Michigan and one West Michigander in particular – his wife, Brien, whom he met at Hope. After college, he got his M.Div. and was then ordained as a minister of Word and sacrament. His first pastoral calling was to a Reformed church in upstate New York. The Cruz family started to grow in New York, with their daughter being born in 2006. In 2008 Miguel and Brien moved back to West Michigan, where Miguel has served in various ministry roles – solo pastor, program manager at a homeless shelter, worship leader, pastor of discipleship and house church pastor. During that time, the Lord blessed Miguel and Brien with two boys, rounding out their family of five. Since 2017 Miguel has helped build a non-profit ministry from the ground up called Coram Deo Association of Churches. Coram Deo has a dual focus of multiplying leaders and multiplying healthy churches. Miguel’s main work is on the multiplying leaders side, where he serves as the coordinator of formation programs. Together with the Coram Deo Ministry team, Miguel has helped equip over 400 pastors and lay leaders across multiple denominations (and non-denominational churches) in 14 states from coast to coast. In early 2019 the Cruz family started attending All Saints. Miguel and Brien were confirmed in November of 2020. Miguel was ordained Deacon in November 2022, and was then ordained a Priest in October 2023. In addition to his continuing ministry at Coram Deo, Miguel is excited to be the newest member of the pastoral team at All Saints!
Dcn. Tim West
Deacon
Tim is a grateful recipient of God's grace, a husband, and a father. By day he serves the church as an editor for a Christian publisher. A native Tennessean, he enjoys the temperate Michigan summers but wishes they would last a bit longer!
Josh Bowman
Director of Operations
Josh Bowman joined All Saints Anglican Church as the Director of Operations in July 2023.
Josh previously served as a scholar and teacher of Political Science, teaching courses in political philosophy, American government, environmental politics, and law at Hope College, Heidelberg University in Tiffin, OH; and Louisiana State University. He completed his MA/PhD in Politics at the Catholic University of America (2016) in Washington, DC and a B.A. in Political Science at Lee University (2008) in Cleveland, TN. In addition to higher ed, he has experience in non-profits, politics, editing, customer service, has published a book (suitable for curing insomnia), and written numerous online articles and book reviews.
When not working for All Saints, he is the Executive Director of the Ciceronian Society, which equips Christians scholars to serve the church as a center of cultural and civic renewal.
Josh was born and raised in Monroe, MI and was baptized at Trinity Lutheran Church (LCMS) in 1993. He and Melissa met at Lee University, were married in Melissa's home state of Illinois, and moved to Washington, DC where they had their first son, Micah. At different times, Josh has been a member of the LCMS, Church of God (TN), and the PCA, but he and Melissa were received into the ACNA (Christ Church in Alexandria, VA) in 2012. They welcomed Lydia in 2017 while living in Baton Rouge.
Josh enjoys spending time with his family and loves any excuse to just hang out with the people of God. He loves to sing, hunt, fish, hike, and camp. He is an avid reader of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, a connoisseur of chocolate chip cookies, a Wolverines fan, and an unapologetic bibliophile.
Melissa Rosin
Operations Coordinator
A lifelong Michigander, and a Hollander for 30-some years, Melissa brings an organizational trellis to the team and grammar policing with a wicked red pen. She's worked in marketing for a manufacturer, in a family business, as customer service for a local clock and furniture maker, in a legal office and for two other churches - always gravitating toward roles that support and help her coworkers to succeed.
She met her husband Tim while in Zion Lutheran Church’s youth group in Kalamazoo and married him in Zion, too. Together they have raised, learned with, laughed and cried with, applauded and agonized over two thoroughly wonderful adult children: a sailor and a farmer. They joined the Vineyard movement for a time, and then waited three long years for Fr. Brian to plant All Saints. They're now fully committed LutherAnglicans.
Chris Marlink
Formation
Chris is a west Michigan native, born and raised in Zeeland. He moved to the big city (Holland!) and earned a degree in Religious Studies, Philosophy, and political science from Hope College. While a student, he married his high school sweetheart, Becky. Together they have four children and make their home in Zeeland where they host intimate community gatherings as an expression of their love for community, beauty, and creativity.
Chris grew up in a Christian home and worshipped in the Christian Reformed and Reformed Churches where he helped lead worship for many years. They were confirmed into the Anglican Church in 2019, and love being a part of the All Saints Community.
A throughline in Chris' life is an abiding interest in and passion for formation. He and Becky have served as marriage mentors, and Chris worked for several years on a Christian educational non-profit startup. He's now deep in the process of helping his teen children transition into adulthood and develop their own spiritual practices and relationship with their heavenly Father.
Chris helps with the ministries of formation at All Saints Anglican, working to make formation in the way of Jesus visible, conscious, and intentional. He considers it an amazing gift to help people experience greater union with God and aid them on the journey to Christlikeness.
John Valles
Media & Technology
John Valles joined All Saints to help with Media and Technology in July 2024.
John’s professional career is a decade and a half of solving problems and serving guests. He’s fenced, fed, worked, tilled, and planted for a ranch; coordinated a feed warehouse; washed dishes, cooked, served, and delivered delicious food; designed and printed t-shirts, and ran and maintained the machines they came off of; stocked, inventoried, and run a restaurant; constructed and designed graphics for patent litigation cases; and coordinated excellent customer service for in-store and online shopping experiences for his neighbors in Allendale, Michigan.
John was born in Odessa, TX. He born into the faith as a Methodist, grew up Baptist, was baptized a Presbyterian in 2016, and confirmed an Anglican in 2023.
John met his wife, Emily, online in 2013 because they both listened to the same podcast at the time. She introduced him to acquaintances of hers who would become their best friends that same year, and just four years later John and Emily were married in 2017 in her home state of Michigan. They’ll be greeting their first child in September 2024.
John’s first love after God is Emily and their now-growing family. After that, in approximate order of time investment: illustration (Toonstop is John’s art brand specialized in character design and teaching); assembling eclectic knowledge in health and wellness, cooking, building, technology, and the arts; and continually mastering the art of making his wife laugh.
Dale Nye
Little Liturgy
Lydia Wolthuis
Music
Lydia is a lifelong Anglican, has grown up at All Saints and was confirmed in 2014. From an early age, she has been captivated by music and began serving as a music leader in the church at age 9. Through years of piano lessons with her grandmother, she built a classical music foundation before branching out to guitar and mandolin. She spent 4 years studying and teaching at the Michigan Academy of Folk Music before traveling to Romania for a 6-month internship. For years she has been building her own catalogue of original music which she is now working to produce into her first album. When she's away from her instrument, you can find Lydia climbing at the local climbing gym, cooking up something new in the kitchen, or laughing with her 3 siblings.