Brent Detwiler has served on the Sovereign Grace Ministries leadership team since its inception in 1982. He serves Sovereign Grace churches throughout the southeastern United States and supplies leadership for our international involvement in parts of Asia and the Caribbean.

Brent received a B.A. degree in biology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) in 1976. After receiving a Master of Divinity degree from Melodyland School of Theology in Anaheim, California, in 1979, he returned to IUP as a campus minister for Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship. In 1980 he became the first senior pastor of what is now Sovereign Grace Church in Indiana (PA). Two years later, Brent and his wife, Jenny, were sent out to Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland, so he could serve on the emerging leadership team for Sovereign Grace Ministries and as the executive director for the Leadership Training School and later School of Ministry (forerunner of the Pastors College).

A year later, in 1983, Brent and his family moved to northern Virginia so Brent could serve as interim senior pastor of the newly adopted Fairfax Covenant Church (now Sovereign Grace Church). In 1985 and 1987, the Detwilers relocated for six weeks and three months, respectively, to help establish Sovereign Grace churches in Daytona Beach and Orlando, Florida. In 1991, they were sent out from Fairfax (with Bob Kauflin and his family) to plant CrossWay Community Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. Brent served there as senior pastor through 2002. From this church base, he now serves our larger mission.

Brent and Jenny have four children and two grandchildren. They live in the University City area of northeast Charlotte.