The Rev. William Beasley is passionate about bringing people together for evangelism, mission, and worship, bringing souls into the transforming presence of Jesus Christ. William Beasley graduated from Wheaton College in 1976 and spent a few years in the work force before attending Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, graduating in 1984, during which time he helped start a new congregation in New Haven, Connecticut. Father Beasley has been active as a senior pastor for the past twenty-seven years. During that time, along with his wife and children, he has planted numerous English-speaking and Spanish-speaking congregations in Wisconsin and Illinois. He served as senior pastor of Church of the Resurrection in Chicago from 1987 to 1998. In 1998 he planted Church of the Redeemer and simultaneously launched several congregations in diverse communities in collaboration with lay catechists. Father Beasley currently works directly with Archbishop Bob Duncan with the Anglican Church in North America in helping to establish new congregations in the Upper Midwest as well as throughout North America in the Greenhouse Regional Church Movement. He is both a regional leader and a rector of multiplying congregations. William resides in Wheaton, Illinois and enjoys the steadfast support of his wife, Anne, who is a deacon ordained in 1987. He has four children: Andy, who serves as a US Navy helicopter pilot; Sarah, who works at Wheaton College in the chaplain’s office and coaches track; Nate, a professional juggler and a graduate of University of Illinois who is now working with Greenhouse Regional Church Movement on that campus, and Sammy, who is a sophomore in highschool on the soccer team.
