About

Ministry

David Stine and his wife, Taryn, are the Lead Pastors of DC Metro Church. In the Summer of 2007, they (as well as a team from Celebration Church in Jacksonville, FL and other areas around the country) moved to the DC Metro area in with the vision of, Building a God-First Culture Throughout the DC Metropolitan Area. They launched the first campus of DC Metro Church, only minutes from downtown Washington DC, in Alexandria, Virginia on September 9, 2007.

Before moving to the DC Metro area, David was the Associate Pastor at Celebration Church in Jacksonville, FL. He oversaw their Deerwood Campus (4000 weekly attendees); as well as, functioned as the Executive Director of the EDJ School of Ministry. After years of functioning as a Youth Pastor, Pastor of Family Ministries, and Associate Pastor his path has converged with the creation, development, and oversight of the EDJ (Every Day Jesus) School of Ministry where he was able to help students find their calling, discover their ministry gifts, and realize their dreams of being plugged into the vocation of full-time ministry within the local church.

In Jacksonville, David and Taryn also Pastored a weekly Young Adults Ministry called LateNite, which targeted Young Adults and Young Married Couples in the Jacksonville Metro area.

Education

David has a Bachelors Degree (B.S. Business Dec. 1998) from Louisiana State University where he gave his life to Christ under the direction of his then College Pastor, Stovall Weems, who is now the Lead Pastor of Celebration Church of Jacksonville.

It was also at LSU that David met his wife, Taryn. The two of them met at a College/Career Conference at Taryn’s home church called Healing Place Church in Baton Rouge, LA (It was called Trinity back then…)

At LSU Taryn finished her Bachelors Degree (B.S. Accounting May 1999) as well as her Masters Degree in Accounting (M.S. Accounting May 2000) where she went on to work for KPMG, where she spent several years working as a C.P.A. before entering into full time ministry at Celebration Church as their Director of Womens Ministries.

After several entry years in ministry David went on to attend Seminary Training at Regent University. There he completed his Masters Degree (M.A. Practical Theology – May 2003) from Regent University’s School of Divinity where he also most recently finished his Doctor of Ministry Degree (D.Min. – May 2007).

Interests

Besides attempting to live out the God-First life through one of their life verses, Matthew 6:33 “But seek first His Kingdom and His Righteousness, and all these (other) things will be given to you as well, David and Taryn have many other pursuits as well.

In 2005, they stared a consulting business, Level 5 Service, which helps companies to promote customer engagement and employee engagement.

Several times per year they also enjoy visiting family and friends in their home state of Louisiana, as well as attending LSU football games, and just about anything that involves good Louisiana food, coffee, and fun.

However, their first pursuit is family – of which they enjoy spending time with their very active son, Isaac (born May 25, 2005), and their youngest son, Josiah “Siah”, who was born January 13, 2008.  David & Taryn were also thrilled to find out that their newest addition to the family will arrive in June of 2010.