Our Pastor

Get to know Pastor Jon & the Ruse family

I love Michigan, I was born and raised here.  My dad has served faithfully in ministry his entire life and I hope to follow in His footsteps.  I grew up in Hamilton, MI.  I graduated from Cornerstone University in 2001 with a Bachelors in Religious Education and a Greek Minor.  This is also where I met my beautiful wife Katie.  I served as the Associate Pastor of youth and children’s ministry at Rothbury Community Church for 8 years before the Lord called us to the mission field. We moved to Missouri for training through New Tribes Mission where I graduated with a Bachelors in Intercultural Ministries. After raising support, we moved to Papua New Guinea and served as dorm parents for 2 years before God surprised us with our 5th child. Through this, God clearly lead us back to the U.S. He gave me a burden for pastoral ministry and to see the local church reaching out to its community.

After what seemed like a really long wait, but was clearly God's perfect timing, I received a unanimous call and began serving as Pastor of Seneca Community Church in August of 2014.  The Lord continues to grow and sharpen me as a pastor, and I am blessed to have such a loving and supporting to church family to serve. By God’s grace, the church body has continued to grow spiritually and numerically over the past 6 years…all glory to Him!

We are a warm and fun-loving family. We love to spend time with friends, play games, listen to music, worship together, watch movies, and go on dates; we can even get absorbed in an occasional good book. Our passion is to demonstrate our love for Jesus to our children, the church, and our community.