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Biography
Mike
Tuttle's involvement in International Youth Corps in 1973 and 1974
helped to prepare him for missions work. After graduating from Conquerors BibleCollege in 1975, he worked for one year in Germany
under the Foreign Missions Division's Missionary Helper program and the
college's ministerial internship program. Then he returned to the
states where he did some evangelist and youth work and served as the
assistant to the pastor in his home church in Beaverton, Oregon. He was also the manager of a Real Estate office, involved in training sales persons and working with property developers.
In
1978 he married Dianna Sparks. In 1982 he returned to Europe with his
wife and infant son, Matthew to pastor a military church in Baumholder, Germany, under the Associates in Missions program. Their daughter, Anna was born two months after their arrival in Germany.
In
1984 the Tuttles were commissioned as fully appointed missionaries to
The Netherlands. Since being in Holland, they have reopened the work in
Hoofddorp, reestablished the work in Dordrecht, helped to start an
international work in The Hague, opened home study groups, started a
refugee ministry, bus ministry, an active children’s ministry and
children’s Bible School, became involved in campus ministry, began a
radio broadcast and a training program for the multi-cultural nation in
which they live.
Along
with the duties of being the senior pastor of three churches and the
President of the UPCNL, Brother Tuttle also serves as the chairman of
the Switzerland Task Force and is the Area Coordinator for Western Europe.
The area of Western Europe includes 17 nations and territories with a
population of 330 million people from the Mediterranean to the North Sea.
Brother and Sister Tuttle reside in the small town of Zwijndrecht, south of Rotterdam and near the church in Dordrecht.
Birthdays
Mike: 11 July, Dianna: 1 September, Matthew: 30 April 81, Anna: 21 November 82
Anniversary
16 June
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