jim@genevacampuschurch.org

Jim is Geneva’s Associate Pastor and serves alongside Mike in preaching, family, and campus ministry.

Jim first came to Geneva as a UW graduate student planning on an academic career. However, participation at Geneva led Jim to ask new questions about his life goals and vocation. After discerning a call to pastoral ministry, he left Madison in 2009 to serve two churches in New York before returning to Geneva in September 2017.

Jim was born in La Jolla, California and spent his high school and college years in Asheville, North Carolina.  He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina-Asheville (B.A., Philosophy), Westminster Theological Seminary (M.Div., Theology & Pastoral Care), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (M.A., Hebrew & Semitic Studies).

He is married to Linda and they have three children: Jonathan, Hannah, and Lucas. When he is not at a concert or in a cafe, he can be found in the woods hiking with his family.

robertkehoe3@gmail.com

Robert began attending Geneva in 2015, along with his wife Ashley and their sons Judah (5), and Edgeron (3), and took on the Vocation Formation directorship in 2016. He grew up just east of Madison, studied political theory at Wheaton College (IL), and philosophy at Boston College. In addition to his position at Geneva, he is a writer and associate editor for The Point Magazine. His work has appeared at the LA Review of Books, Boston Review of Books, Book and Culture, First Things, Madison Magazine, and has been featured at Digg.com, and Arts and Letters Daily. He is also the director of the Magic Moves soccer training program, working with athletes at all levels of competition. As Vocation|Formation Program Director at Geneva, Robert is excited to engage our student population as they seek to identify their calling through the university experience.

katherine.b.austin@gmail.com

Kate received her B.A. in Art Education at Wheaton College, completed the Gordon in Orvieto semester abroad program of Renaissance Art in Italy, and studied stone sculpture at the Chicago Botanical Gardens under masters from Chapungu, Zimbabwe. She taught elementary art in the Chicago suburbs, the Mississippi Delta, and small town New Hampshire, before moving to Madison, Wisconsin to establish roots. In addition to enriching the lives of children at Geneva, she serves on the staff of CIVA, Christians in the Visual Arts, based in Madison. She and her husband, Jacob, have three wonderful daughters, a dog named Blue, and a small flock of backyard chickens.

orangepassantino@gmail.com

Micah has been attending Geneva since he visited in 2010 during his first week of graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The carefully planned, Christ-centered liturgy caught his attention, and during the past four years, his love for both God and the local church have increased through fellowship with Genevans. He recently graduated from UW with a Doctorate in Viola Performance, but his position at Geneva is giving him space to explore a broader range of musical gifts within the context of Christian community. He is grateful for this faith family where he can be challenged, encouraged, and can hopefully inspire people to love Jesus more.

sylvia@genevacampuschurch.org

Sylvia has been a member of Geneva since 1989 and on staff since early 2000. She says that her “nagging” and administrative gifts were honed while parenting five daughters and several foster children, managing their home and being Bob’s wife. Their children are young women now and launching careers and starting families of their own.

Sylvia counts it a privilege to work for Geneva and is thankful for the ways it helped shape the Boomsma home and personal ministry while their children were growing up. After the children went to college, Sylvia became even more convinced of the importance of the church in campus life. She said, “It’s an honor to serve students and watch them develop during their years at Geneva. And it’s a joy to know hundreds of Geneva alumni dispersed throughout the world, serving God and honoring him in their lives and work.”