About Us

Our History

The church of Timberline began our first worship celebration in January of 2003. For several years Timberline existed as a “nomadic” church. We met in other churches, furniture stores and schools. The Timberline name was chosen as a step of faith when we first formed as a church, believing God had called us to the Timberline Lodge property in Strasburg, PA. Although the purchase was complicated and drawn out over an 18 month timespan, the Timberline Lodge became ours in May of 2004.   While we now owned the property it would be years before we would be able to conduct church services in our own building.  The property was in an extreme state of disrepair. After a significant investment of time and money, the Timberline property was slowly redeemed, restored and rebuilt. We moved our offices to the Timberline property in January of 2005 and after extensive renovations to the main building we held our first worship service on site in July of 2009.

In 2021 Timberline Church went through a major transition/milestone. The founding pastor of Timberline, Marlin Nafziger, after many years of faithful service stepped down from full time pastoral ministry. For several years prior to this, in preparation for his retirement a succession plan had been built to ensure the continuity and leadership of the church. As a result Benji Martin came on staff in 2017 as a pastoral intern and then as an Associate Pastor. Joining him, Keith Sensenig, a long time member of Timberline, stepped out of a  family Plumbing and Electric business and into the Lead Pastor role in 2021. Together, these two men stand to lead Timberline in this next phase of its ministry and mission.