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Olam Fellowship Leadership Team
Olam Fellowship is overseen by a group of pastors and elders.

Bart Ford, Pastor

Bart Ford serves Olam Fellowship as Pastor. Bart grew up in St. Joseph, Missouri , attended Westminster College in Fulton, MO and the University of Missouri School of Law. For 30 years he worked in banks and for other companies doing estate planning. Playing the pipe organ has been one of his loves and playing and singing hymns started his spiritual walk. In 1986 Bart moved to Grand Junction, CO, then to the Front Range in 1990. He joined an Episcopal church in Boulder and soon gave his life to Jesus. Since then, Bart has helped found Church of the Holy Spirit in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, and then was drawn to The Harvest, a messianic charismatic congregation in Denver. After being in their training school for 5 years God had Bart join Peder and Jessica Olsen in founding the Englewood Lighthouse congregation. In 2008 the Lighthouse sent Bart out to join Craig Hill of Family Foundations to establish Olam Fellowship.

 
Craig Hill, Elder

Craig Hill teaching Empowering RelationshipsPastor Craig Hill and his wife, Jan, live near Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. Craig and Jan give senior leadership to Olam Fellowship, as well as Family Foundations International (FFI).

FFI is a non-profit Christian ministry through which life-changing seminars are conducted in many nations of the world. Craig has written several books, including his best seller, The Ancient Paths. Through his past experience in business, missions, counseling and pastoral ministry, God has given Craig unique insight into marriage, family, financial and interpersonal relationships. This has resulted in his ability to identify for many people, root causes of relational conflict, compulsive habits, low self-esteem, workaholism, lack of financial provision and other undesirable life patterns, which are repeated from one generation to the next. By interweaving personal stories with biblical truths, God has anointed Craig to pierce through the veil of the mind to minister to the depths of the heart, resulting in real life change for many.

 Craig holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree from Carleton College in Russian Area Studies and Geology and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the University of Chicago.

Upon completion of his formal education, Craig worked as a corporate manager in the oil and gas exploration industry for several years. Being an experienced pilot, he later founded and managed a Learjet charter service. During these years, Craig (being fluent in the Russian language) frequently took time off from his business endeavors to minister the Gospel to the peoples of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.  Craig met his wife, Jan, through Youth With a Mission.

Having a specific interest in ministering to marriages and families, Craig pursued an internship and later a volunteer staff position at the New Life Counseling Center in Denver. He subsequently taught counseling and missions on the faculty of the Marilyn Hickey Bible College. In 1987, the Lord raised up Craig as Senior Pastor of a local church where he and Jan served for seven and a half years, until he was called by God to devote his full-time energy to the ministry of Family Foundations International.