Wes O'Neill, Interim Senior Pastor
Wes O'Neill is a Teaching Elder in the North Texas Presbytery of the PCA. He has pastored churches in Missouri, Oklahoma, and New York. Since 2007 he has been doing interim and consulting work in the North Texas Presbytery with churches in Texas and Oklahoma. He graduated from the University of Maine with a BA in Sociology in 1971, and received his M.Div. from Covenant Theological Seminary in 1988. He has been at Heritage since December of 2008.
Road trips with his wife Kathy, time with his grandkids, art museums, music of almost all kinds, military history, and a goofy Golden Retriever named Amber are some of his delights. Wes and his wife Kathy have been married for 39 years and they have two grown children and six grandchildren.
Shawn Young, Associate Pastor
Shawn is an associate pastor with primary responsibilities in the areas of outreach, small groups, and Christian education. He also shares general pastoral duties in areas such as preaching, teaching, leading worship, and visitation.
Shawn grew up in Minden, Nebraska. He attended the University of Nebraska with a double major in political science and English (BA, 1992). After a couple of years working in Lincoln, he spent two years as a missionary in Zambia, Africa. He then attended Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis and finished his M.Div. in May 2002. Shawn came to serve at Heritage after graduating. He and his wife Jennifer have two sons and two daughters: Easton, Jonas, Selah and Lucy.