Meet the Pastor

Reagon Wilson and his wife Rachel came to ICL in July 2009 from a ministry of pastoral care and encouragement to missionary families around the world. Working under the auspices of Barnabas International in Rockford, IL they spent the last fifteen years in more than forty countries.

Prior to that, the Wilson’s served local churches in Massachusetts, Kansas, and New Jersey. Their 14 year tenure in one church in the New York City suburbs provided a place for their four sons to remember as “home.” They are each now married and scattered (with 12 Wilson grandchildren) from Alaska to Texas, and Washington to Nepal.

Reagon’s childhood was in a globally mobile family living in Japan, Germany, and the four corners of the US. His parents came to faith while living 12,000 miles from home. Rachel spent her childhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The couple met at Harding University. They married in 1971 before either finished their schooling. That means that Rachel is completely responsible for getting Reagon into adulthood and through university, seminary, and graduate school.

Rachel enjoys working with women, with colors, and enhancing the natural beauty of environments. Reagon enjoys working with wood, with pliable people, and with words. He is a published author and a recreational novelist. But their chief objective, individually and together, is to “see to it that no one misses the grace of God”. (Hebrews 12:15)