Church Staff

Bob Williams: Senior Pastor

     Pastor Bob has been the pastor of Mount Olive Church since 1995. Pastor Bob is a graduate of Trinity College with a B.A. in Biblical Studies and a graduate of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School with a Master of Divinity degree. He worked for five years with an inner city youth ministry in Chicago and he worked for three years with a social service agency in Chicago as well. He and his wife Becky have three biological children and have been foster parents of five other children.

Tony Bobalik: Minister of Music

    Tony started taking music lessons at age 7 and has been working in and enjoying music ever since. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Karen, and their five children: Rachel, Anna, Sarah, Samuel and Elizabeth. He started attending Mt. Olive in 1991 and has been Mt Olive's Worship Leader since 1996. Tony teaches private piano and also works for Joy Art Music, a music production company in Evanston, Illinois.

Kris Prescott: Director of Ministry Development

     Kris has been a part of the Old Irving Park neighborhood for over twenty-five years. He and his wife, Becci, became members of Mount Olive Church in 1998. In 2001 Kris came on staff as the part time youth pastor, and in 2007 he was brought on full time as the Director of Ministry Development. Kris has a bachelor's degree in social work from Loyola University in Chicago, and has studied at Trinity Evangelical School of Divinity. He has acquired an array of experience in the non-for-profit sector as an intern at both ICRE (Illinois Center for Rehabilitation and Education) and Lydia Home Association, and as a program director at the YMCA, in their athletic and child care programs.

Pictured left to right: Pastor Bob, Tony & Kris