First & last namePastor Benj Petroelje
Graduate Year2013
Currently in MinistryYes
Job TitlePastor
Organization Name14th Street Christian Reformed Church
Website https://www.14thstreetcrc.org/
City, State/ProvinceHolland, MI
Short BioAfter two years in a pastoral position with young adults in a large, non-denominational church in Brookfield, Wisc., Benj Petroelje moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, where he received his M.Div. from Regent College. After Regent, Benj was an associate pastor at Fleetwood CRC in Surrey, BC, for fifteen months (2013-14). While there he began to see doing a doctorate as vital to his sense of pastoral call. As a result, in 2014, Benj and his family moved to Edinburgh (UK) to pursue a Ph.D. in New Testament at the University of Edinburgh. He completed his degree in spring 2019. Benj began his ministry at Fourteenth Street CRC in December of 2018. Benj and his wife, Amy, have three children.