Church leadership
Tim Pulec
Lead Pastor/Elder
As a child I thought if I prayed for salvation, went to church, and tried to be good I would go to heaven. However, when I was 18 years old, I heard an open-air preacher and realized I wasn’t right with God and the way I was living proved it. In Luke 7:47 Jesus said, “I tell you, her sins, and they are many, have been forgiven, so she has shown me much love.” I can sympathize with this woman. I turned from my life of sin and realized the only way I could be right with God is through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. Less than a year later I began an internship at the International House of Prayer in Kansas City. I stayed and finished the first year of IHOPU. Then I felt led to move back to Dallas, Texas and joined a new church plant. I served as the assistant pastor there for six years. The church dissolved and shut its doors, and I decided to move my family back up to Gainesville, Texas and join the church I grew up in, New Life Bible Church.
Steven Dulock
Worship Leader/Elder
I was born and raised in Gainesville and have attended NLBC since 2001. I came to know Jesus when I was 15 years old after attending church with some friends of mine and was given a Bible. I got locked out of my house after school one day and began reading the Bible in my back yard, and the grace of God hit me like a ton of bricks, and I gave my life to the Lord. Soon after that I began dating my now wife and came to New Life after she asked me to come with her. I grew up in this church and I feel like this church is my family. God called me into music ministry in 2004 after I graduated high school, and I moved to being the worship leader of the main worship service a few years later. My wife Amy is also involved in the worship ministry at the church, and we have 4 beautiful children.
Mike Pulec
Men's Ministry Leader/Elder
I have lived in the Gainesville area for about 24 years and was part of the original group of families that formed New Life Bible Church. I am married to Terri and we have 4 children (all grown). All are married and we have 7 grand children. I have been a church attendee most of my life. God got my attention in 1995 (long story). I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, and started my personal relationship with Him at that time. He continues to grow and change me from the inside out. I love all my brothers and sisters at New Life Bible Church. We are family.
Brent Banks
Elder
I was born and spent my formative years in Gainesville. At one time in my life every relative I knew lived either in Gainesville or Callisburg. At 8 years old I realized my need for Christ and asked Him to be my savior during a service at Bible Baptist Church on Taylor Street. At the age of 12, my family moved to Lewisville, where I attended Junior High and High School. After graduation, I attended the University of North Texas, not really sure of what I wanted to become. I love all sports, especially football, but was too small to give that any serious thought so I thought an accountant would be an area I could make some money. I soon found out that I hated math and was not that good at it anyway. As mentioned, I was saved at the age of eight but at that age how drastic can your life really change. From outward appearances, I lived a moral life but was never “sold out” for God. As a sophomore in college, after listening to a sermon on Isaiah 6, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” I decided to commit my life to Him and ended up transferring to small Bible College in Arlington, TX. I never felt called to be a pastor but called to say YES in whatever field God wanted me. In 1985 Cyndy and I got married and I took a job as a youth pastor in my home church in Lewisville. I wish I could say my life has been totally committed to God since. I’ve had some battles with Satan that he has won but God has been patient with me and always taken care of me and my family. After three or four years the church began to have some financial difficulties and I found a warehouse job, working the graveyard shift for a communications distributor. I have been at the same company now for 27 years. The last 22 years in a sales position that specializes in the Service Provider market ( AT&T, Verizon, etc. ) We moved back to Gainesville in 2006 and I still commute to Lewisville. Cyndy and I have two adult sons, Meritt and Mason, whom I am very proud of. We visited New Life Bible church one Sunday morning and found a group of people that we can call family. With the help of my wife and my family, my aim is to continue to say yes to God, while I grow and mature into the person He called me to be.
Kevin Grant
Elder
I was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Became an Emergency Medical Technician in 1978 and a Paramedic is 1981. I spent most of my career in Sacramento, CA. My wife and I met in 1993. In 1998 my boss invited us to a “friends” day at his church, and at that point Carol and I received Christ as our Savior. We were living in Modesto, CA. We got married in 1999. We kept growing in our faith. We moved to Citrus Height, CA and started to attend Grace Community Church, part of Grace Internation out of Houston. TX. I went through a two (2) year internship program to become a licensed minister, which I did. In 2010, I had lost my job and God lead us to Gainesville, TX to become the EMS Chief for Cooke County. Not long after moving we started to attend New Life Bible Church and have been here ever since. I was the financial Deacon for over eight (8) years and then became an Elder. It is a privilege to serve our church. In 2022 I retired and now my wife and I enjoy serving our church, are leaders in the US Naval Sea Cadets (Navy youth program) and are traveling as much as we can.
Carmelo Rodriguez
Youth Pastor
[Coming soon]