Our Staff

Tim and Joy Watson come to BFA with over twenty years experience in ministry in North America, Europe, and Asia. Tim and Joy both grew up in Phoenix, AZ. They are graduates of Scottsdale Christian Academy, an ACSI school which Tim’s parents helped begin. Tim, an ordained pastor, has served as a campus minister at the University of Oregon, Pastor for International Students, and church planter in Eurasia. Tim is an avid reader, hunter, and fisherman and enjoys studying World War II history. He is currently developing leaders through church-based training and seminars on trauma, abuse, and deprivation.

Joy has taught English as a Second Language in China and helped begin a Christian international school where she served as Librarian and Middle School English Teaching Assistant. She has worked in seven different countries and has served alongside her husband in developing wives of church leaders. She enjoys reading, cooking, and beading with her daughter. Tim and Joy have two children, T.J. and Hannah, and enjoy family game nights and watching movies with them.

Colleges/Universities Attended:
University of Washington, USA, M.A. in European History
Western Seminary, USA, M.A. in Intercultural Ministries
Donetsk State University, Ukraine, Diploma, Russian Language and Literature
Oxford University, England, Visiting Scholar: Early Modern British History
Southern Methodist University, USA,B.A. in History
Southern Methodist University, USA, B.A. in German Language and Literature

Prior Work or Ministry Experience:
As a Nationally Certified Counselor, Jenna gained clinical counseling experience working with children, adolescents, adults and elderly individuals, couples, and families from a diversity of socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds. Her experience includes intensive behavioral day treatment therapy, trauma and play therapy interventions, addictions counseling, and group therapy interventions. Her background also includes children's summer camp counseling and leadership in young women's ministry to students in the public middle and high school settings. Some of her favorite work and life experiences have come through the four and a half years she served in Residential Life as an Undergraduate Resident Chaplain at Lee University and Graduate Resident Assistant to Regent University.

Home Base:
Virginia Beach, VA

Colleges/Universities Attended:
B.A. Human Development and Family Studies, Lee University, 2007
M.A. Community Counseling, Family & Marriage Therapy, Regent University, 2010

Other Background:
Jenna's love for culture and travel began in 1995 as an exchange student to France. In 2001, during her years spent growing up as a TCK in Japan, she realized her life's calling to full-time ministry and the mission field. Jenna considers the vast variety of friendships she has formed over the years and across to be one of life's greatest gifts. She is passionate about walking alongside others in life through mentorship and relationship and longs to see lives made whole through the love of Christ. Her other interests include running, photography, painting, gardening, and baking.

Erin has served on short-term mission trips to Brazil, Italy, and Uganda. After college I spent 5 months volunteering for a non-proft organization called International Children's Network (ICN). They had a children's choir from Uganda named Matsiko traveling around the western United states on tour and I joined them to help as a chaperone and help with merchandise and other tour needs.

Colleges/Universities Attended:
B.S. in Intercultural Studies from Corban College

Jill is head of the English Department and teaches grade twelve and Advanced Placement English. She is a missionary with Janz Team Ministries.

Degrees and Certificates:
Bachelor of Arts, English Education major, US History Education minor, Grace College
Master of Science, Teacher Education, Philadelphia Biblical University
Indiana Secondary Teaching Certificate
ACSI Teacher's License