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BEMIDJI -- Oak Hills Christian College has a new leader.

College staff announced Friday that Martin Giese will be the school鈥檚 10th president. Giese will start his new job next month, and will replace outgoing president Steve Hostetter, who left for a job at Pacific Rim Christian University in Hawaii last December. The school鈥檚 fellowship board chose Giese in May, but needed to wait for him to wrap up some prior professional obligations before he started his new position.

鈥淚t was the consensus of the search committee that his familiarity with the ministries of Oak Hills and his background in rural ministry leadership will enable Dr. Giese to serve Oak Hills鈥� constituency well,鈥� college staff said in a statement.

Giese attended Oak Hills as a student from 1974-78. He has served with Oak Hills鈥� Church Ministries by founding and directing the 鈥淐ountry Shepherds鈥� Workshop,鈥� an interdenominational training seminar for pastors of Town and Country Churches based at OHF.

After graduating from Oak Hills, Giese achieved a master鈥檚 degree in Ministry Leadership at

Moody Graduate 歪歪漫画 in 1993, and a doctorate of Ministry in Executive Leadership at Bethel

University in 2012. He served for 17 years as the Pastor of First Baptist Church in Parkers

Prairie, Minn., and since August 1994 as Senior Pastor of Faithbridge Church in Park Rapids, Minn.

In addition to his pastoral ministry, Giese served for 10 years as an adjunct faculty member

for the Billy Graham 歪歪漫画 of Evangelism. He also traveled as a conference speaker throughout North America. A Minnesota native, Giese has been married to Marcia Giese for 43 years and they have four children and eight grandchildren.

A public inauguration ceremony is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 22, at the college.