Rev. Tim Olsen is currently operations director of Sioux Falls Seminary’s Summit House leadership training center within the low-resourced Sioux Falls neighborhood of Pettigrew Heights. One of Summit House’s core values is living out models of creation care. Models include urban agriculture, xeriscaping, rain barrels, composting, and the building of a straw bale shed in cooperation with Architecture for Humanity. Tim is a Southwest Minnesota farm boy who worked for twelve years as a County Extension Agent in Minnesota and Northern New York State. Following a seminary education Tim served churches in Iowa and Minnesota. He describes himself as an everyday environmentalist who has gardened and landscaped sustainably in three states. There is a worm bin in his basement and compost cooking in his backyard. Recently, Tim was in Washington D.C. at the invitation of the Evangelical Environmental Network, in collaboration with the National Wildlife Federation and National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, to encourage Congress to move forward on climate change legislation. Tim has been married to his wife Marty for nearly 35 years. Tim and Marty have three children and four grandchildren.
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