Pastor Dan Budgick
Dan Budgick grew up in church. He was saved as a five-year old boy and surrendered to the call to preach at the age of nine. Upon graduating from high school, Pastor Budgick attended Bob Jones University where he met Judy, and they were married in 1987. Twoweeks after the wedding they were serving the Lord in New Brunswick, Canada. Pastor
Budgick was the youth / assistant pastor for three and a half years. The Lord directed them from Canada to Pennsylvania where Pastor Budgick attended Calvary Baptist Theological Seminary and earned his Masters of Divinity degree. Upon graduation Dan and Judy and their three children moved to Tucson, Arizona. On August 1, 1997, Dan became Pastor of Desert Foothills Baptist Church.
Pastor Andy Wenthold
Andy had the opportunity to grow up in a Christian home with parents that were faithful to church. God saved him at the age of eight after revealing to him his natural sinfulness and need for a Savior. As a senior in high school, he felt God leading him into the full time ministry, and he attended Maranatha Baptist Bible College with a Biblical Studies major. It was during this time that he met his wife Kristen, and they were married in the summer of 2005. After graduating with his master’s degree in 2006, Andy continued to be heavily involved in volunteer youth ministry at his local church in Wisconsin until the Lord directed him and his wife to Desert Foothills in the summer of 2009.
