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Senior Pastor John L. Bayles & wife Karen Bayles
Pastor John Bayles and his wife, Karen have been associated with Twinbrook Community Church (formerly Halpine Baptist Church) for over 36 years. Pastor Bayles served in a lay-leader capacity from 1973 to 1978 when he became the first full time Administrative Assistant to the pastor at that time.
He led the worship services and developed a Christian Education training and counseling ministry before taking a leave of absence from 1982 to 1985 to study at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary (M.Div. 1985), in Boston MA. In 1985 he returned to Maryland to plant a church in Germantown MD – Grace Fellowship. He returned to the Rockville area in 1998 through the merger of Amaranth Fellowship of Germantown (formally Grace Fellowship) and Halpine Baptist Church.
For the past ten years Pastor Bayles has served as senior pastor. He and Karen have four children: Christine Bayles-Kortsch, living in Philadelphia with her husband Daniel and two sons, Jack and Owen; Katherine Bayles, living in Richmond, Virginia; David and his wife Candace, living in Germantown, Maryland; and Daniel and his wife Vivian living in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Read about Pastor Bayles’s Pilgrimage as a Reformed Christian