I am both excited and honored to serve as pastor for Lebanon Methodist Church!

I first responded to God’s grace and was baptized at the age of thirteen. I was born in Dallas, Texas where I primarily attended church on the weekends with my grandparents. At the age of nine, my parents and I moved to Iowa before finally settling in Fredericksburg, Virginia a few years later. I spent my first years of working in business and information technology, until at the age of thirty-seven, I sensed the urging of the Lord to serve him in ordained ministry. Upon answering that call, I received a bachelor’s degree in Christian ministry and master’s degree in divinity and theology.

I have served several Methodist churches in the Richmond, Virginia area since 2010. During this time, I’ve had the privilege and honor of serving as a pastor for small, medium, and large churches in mostly suburban and rural areas. I have also served as the director for a district mission center focused on the missional church model. My strengths in ministry are preaching and teaching in which I love to share the Good News of Christ Jesus with all who will receive.

My wife and I have lived in King William County just outside Mechanicsville, Virginia since 2007 where we’ve raised our two awesome, teenage children. As a family we enjoy travelling to the beach, mountains and anywhere in which we can enjoy and admire God’s incredible creation. When not engaged in church activities or travel, I enjoy spending time at the gym and continuing my improvement in martial arts.

It has been at God’s hand that I have been called to serve Lebanon Methodist Church in Hanover, VA. and I look forward with anticipation to all the wonderful things God is going to be doing at Lebanon!

The inside of a church has been home to Nikki Brungard for as long as she can remember. Serving God’s people through church planting, youth ministry, women’s ministry, children’s ministry, and as a conference and retreat speaker has kept her busy as well as homeschooling and discipling three children and serving alongside her husband of almost thirty years. Her ministry adventures have taken her across the United States as well as to Scotland, Jamaica, Mozambique, and South Africa. In addition to loving to travel, she’s an avid reader, a patron of theater, a fan of live sports, and a military mom.