Rev. Bob Feist

Senior Pastor

Rev. Bob Feist, was appointed to serve as Senior Pastor of Christ Church, effective June 1, 2006 following the retirement of Dr. Bob Pierson.   Rev. Feist served the previous 13 years as founding pastor of St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City. During his tenure the church grew to become one of the larger membership churches in the Oklahoma Conference.       

Bob was awarded the Denman Award for Evangelism by the Oklahoma Annual Conference in 2000 and served as Chair of the Evangelism Committee of the Annual Conference Discipleship Ministry Team from 2003 to 2007.  In June of 2007 he was elected treasurer of the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry.

Bob was born June 11, 1960 and grew up in Great Bend, Kansas.  After graduation from GBHS in 1978 he earned his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Oral Roberts University in 1982.  

He served on the staff of First United Methodist of Oklahoma City as Business Administrator from 1982 until 1985 when he began attending Philips Theological Seminary in Enid while serving as Youth Director at FUMC until 1987.

He married Kathy Murray of Tulsa, Oklahoma at her home church, First United Methodist, Tulsa in June of 1985.  They have three daughters:  Jennifer, Rachel,  and Sarah.  

In 1997 Bob and Kathy moved to Wilmore, Kentucky where he earned his Masters of Divinity from Asbury Theological Seminary in 1990.   From 1990 to 1993, Bob was appointed associate pastor at FUMC, Altus, Oklahoma.  The appointment to launch St. Andrew’s in 1993 was the beginning of an exciting church planting experience.  Over 13 years he led the congregation through 3 capital building campaigns and 40,000 square feet of completed facilities including a Worship Center and Christian Life Center.  In addition to facilities growth, Bob oversaw significant expansion of the St. Andrew’s staff.      

Since coming to Christ Church,   Pastor Bob has sought to build upon the outstanding ministry foundation already in place.   In 2008 Dr. Bob Pierson was named Pastor Emeritus and continues to serve in many ways.   The Christ Church mission is “Making Disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world”.    Working with the outstanding staff,   Pastor Feist’s leadership focus has been to strengthen our existing ministries to children, youth and adults and stretch in some new strategic ways.   The Phoenix singles fellowship continues to serve the community well and Upward Basketball and cheerleading and Stephen Ministry are examples of new ministries that have been implemented.   Christ Church continues its vision of being a “Good Samaritan Church” to the Tulsa metro community.  

Bob grew up playing football, basketball, and baseball and continues an active interest in sports.   He likes to exercise and get outdoors as often as he can.   Much of his spare time involves keeping up with the children and their activities.  The family enjoys going snow skiing, water skiing and other outdoor activities together.