Rick Pinkston, Campus Minister - Rick Pinkston is our Campus Minister and Executive Director of The Wesley Foundation.  He has been appointed to this ministry since 2009.  He is an Elder in Full Connection in the Memphis Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church.  He has served local congregations throughout the Conference.  He is a native of Memphis, and has earned degrees from Lambuth College (now Lambuth University) and Memphis Theological Seminary.  He is married to Nita Parham Pinkston and they have three grown children.  He enjoys golf and is a collector of fountain pens.
 



 

Michael Wheeler (Intern) - Michael is a Missionary Kid to Indonesia and has lived almost all his life there. He moved to Memphis in 2005 and began attending the University of Memphis in 2006. He has lived in Australia, Indonesia, California, Arkansas, and Jackson, Tennessee. Besides speaking English, he speaks French and Indonesian. Michael plays the acoustic, bass, and electric guitar, and drums. He is a camera person at Fox 13 WHBQ and is currently attending the University of Memphis as a Film and Video Productions Major. Michael has very little spare time since he has three part-time jobs and one full-time job, however, with his spare time he is either with friends or doing mechanical work on his cars or someone else's. He still remembers though that there is always time to laugh.
 

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