Pastor Ron Peterson is a 1982 graduate of Tennessee Temple University and has been in full-time Christian service since 1980.  He has served the Lord as a Christian school teacher and coach, Assistant Pastor, church planter with B.I.M.I. in Ohio, and has been the Senior Pastor of three other churches.  Pastor Peterson serves on several boards, including Camp Michiana, Neil Cadwell Evangelistic Association, and Shepherd's Bethel.  He also serves as the state athletic director for the Indiana Association of Christian Schools.

Pastor Peterson is a native Hoosier, born in LaPorte, but raised in Muncie.  In 1977, he married Jami Ringler, a West Virginia native whom he met at Tennessee Temple.  The Petersons have two grown children, daughter Elizabeth and son Shannon.