Lead Pastor
Lynn Parks is Pastor at Oxford Circle Mennonite Church in the Oxford Circle neighborhood in Philadelphia. She also was previously Pastor of Visitation at Neshaminy-Warwick Presbyterian Church in Warminster, PA. She is a graduate of Regent University School of Divinity, is a certified life coach and trained facilitator with the American Bible Society Trauma Healing Institute. She grew up in northeastern North Carolina, near the Outer Banks. Her family were involved in a Pentecostal Holiness church. She and her husband Vandy have been missionaries and church planters in London, England; Cologne, Germany and Philadelphia. She has one daughter, Bethannie, who is married to Kevin, and they are both nurses at Esperanza Health Center. She has a black lab named Belle and a cat named Arwen. She enjoys spending time with her family, reading, teaching, cooking, walking with Belle and exploring new places with Vandy.

Pastor of Outreach
Ron Tinsley aka Pastor Tee has served in various positions at OCMC as council chair, pastoral team member, council at-large, usher and growth group leader. Ron responded to the pastoral call into ministry in 2019 and went though a discernment process at OCMC to take the present position in 2021.

Over the last three decades, Ron has served as a youth minister at churches in Philadelphia and Lancaster, PA, area director of Young Life Greater Wilmington, DE, teacher/administrator at a private Christian high school and as a communications coordinator at an addiction recovery facility. He has also taught college courses at Temple University and Eastern University. Ron is a board member of Timoteo Sports, a Christian sports and mentoring organization. He also has his own branding and design business.

Ron has a MA in Urban Studies from Eastern University and a BFA from The University of the Arts in Graphic Design. He is married with four children, a daughter-in-law and Curry, their protective Pomeranian/German Shepherd. 

The Pastoral Team assists with starting/maintaining ministries, equipping, prayer/prophetic witness, evangelism, preaching and teaching. OCMC utilizes the five fold ministry outlined in Ephesian 4 also known as the APEST model. (Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Shepherds, Teachers).

The Leadership Team is responsible to administering Sunday Service and carrying out duties under the different ministries of OCMC.
Praise and Worship Leader Anne Hess, Prayer Coordinator Tim Leaman, H.S. Youth Leaders Isaiah L. and Nyah T. and the OCCCDA Executive Director.

Kevin Opett is pastor at Alpha Mennonite Church in Alpha, NJ. He has served as one of our pastoral team leaders until he received his calling.