Graduate Profile: Justin Krische

My name is Justin Krische. I reside in Gardnerville, NV. I am the husband to my wonderful wife, Kayla, and we have been married for just short of 10 years. We have two boys, Colston 9, and Samuel 8, and have recently been blessed with a baby girl due May of 2025. I work full time as a senior project manager for a glazing contractor in Reno, NV, and I have had the great pleasure of being a pastor/elder at Carson Valley Bible Church in Minden, NV.

I did not grow up a Christian. I was raised in a very large Catholic family, but religion was just empty tradition and had no love for God. Admittedly, I actually grew up very much hating God. Sometimes during rough patches I’d find myself back in the Catholic church or going to a gospel-preaching church with my sister, but nothing stuck. I was comforted for a time but always wound up going back to the same place of rebellion. Church was just a means to an end.

20 weeks into my wife’s pregnancy with our oldest son, we received the most devastating of news—our child would be born with an incomplete heart, and likely wouldn’t survive. During an experimental surgery inutero, I was brought to my knees by the Living God. At that moment of utter helplessness watching my wife and unborn son go into surgery, the gospel I heard years before became effectual. I recognized my sin against my Creator and repented. I trusted in Christ that day because I knew he was the only one I could depend on. But things got harder before they got easier.

After successful surgeries and a new addition to our family, I felt this urge to go to church. Unfortunately, with my new faith, I resorted to what I knew—Catholicism. It didn’t take but a few Sundays for it to feel wrong. I couldn’t explain why, though. At the invitation of a friend, we started to attend a charismatic church. We spent a few years there. My wife was saved while we attended, we engaged in ministry, we gave, we were “all-in.” I even started “seminary” at a liberal Christian university. But then Reformed theology found it’s way to me via men such as R.C. Sproul. I began to consume every Reformed sermon and book I could find. I was elated by the doctrines of grace. It made sense of the question that was always nagging at me “How did God save me, the most reluctant convert?” I soon found out that not all Christians appreciate Reformed theology as I did.

After moving churches and receiving the call to ministry, I had a desire to go to seminary. At a Sacramento Gospel Conference, I met Bob and was introduced to RBS. It was the perfect fit for me to have robust Reformed Baptist training while maintaining my duties and obligations as a husband, father, elder, and employee. Since then, I have been a part of a restructuring of our congregation’s doctrine and the initiation of our congregational subscription to the 1689 confession. I have witnessed a tremendous outpouring of God’s kindness in our valley through Reformed theology. RBS has had an active role in this with the training of fellow pastors in my area and through men like Brian Borgman. RBS has been a wonderful blessing to this place we call home.

What I have received through the work of RBS and its professors is priceless, and I am eternally grateful. Not only was I equipped for shepherding the sheep of Christ, but I grew in my own fear and admonition of our Lord. In the future I would like to continue with seminary, but for now, I will resume in the ACBC certification process and use whatever time I can, to serve Christ’s church and my growing family.

Soli Deo Gloria,

Jusin Krische