Meet Tim.
Tim Keene is a follower of Jesus Christ who has given his vocational life to ministering to teenagers, college students, and young adults. He has served as a pastor, teacher, coach, and camp director, and today leads a division of Camp Carl that includes its gap-year program, the Delta Leadership Residency — a 12-month leadership-development program designed to launch Christian leaders into the world with confidence and direction. Outside of his work, and most importantly, he is a husband of nearly 20 years to his wife Sarah and father to three children: Carter (11), Norah (8), and Lilah (3).
In the Residency, the classroom truly has no walls. Five years as a classroom teacher taught Tim the value of lecture, research, and collaborative learning — but his years as a pastor, coach, and camp director convinced him that the best learning happens in real time, out in the field, with space to reflect and evaluate. He likes to ask, “How can we put tools in the hands of our students and give them the opportunity to hammer away?” His teaching starts with understanding each student — what they already know — and then guiding them further down a path paced to their ability. No two students are created equal, so the process shouldn’t be either.
Tim believes leaders are learners who should continually seek wisdom from every area of life. The richest growth often comes from veterans of a student’s own field — but some of the most creative learning happens when students push past the boundaries of their discipline and find touchpoints in an adjacent one. Learning to make those connections, he says, is where real learners are born. Along the way, his deepest aims are to help students discover who they were made to be and find the courage to live it out — and to form the kind of Acts 2 community where people genuinely do life together.
That conviction — that the best formation happens in the field, with real responsibility and room to reflect — is exactly what Anchor is built on. Teaching in Anchor’s experience-based model lets Tim do what he already does best: put tools in students’ hands and walk alongside them as they learn to build.