Biography Information

Tim McLain Rolen has been the Senior Pastor of New Hope Community Church in Clovis, California since 1992. New Hope is a congregation that has grown from 150 to averaging 600 in Sunday Morning attendance. Tim has been Senior Pastor here for the past 16 years, but has been preaching since he was 15 years old.

Tim attended Hoover High School in Fresno, California, and graduated from California Christian College in 1977 with a BS in Biblical Studies and in 1978 from Fresno Pacific University with a BS in Communications.

Tim is very active in the community. Tim has served on a variety of school district committees, worked and was Sales Manager for the Fresno Bible House for 10 years. In addition to being Senior Pastor at New Hope Community Church, he has been on the Board of the Fresno/Clovis Pastors Prayer Breakfast, a Clovis Police Chaplain, and Director of the Fresno/Clovis Men's Retreat.

Tim's hobbies are reading, bird hunting, and sports.

He and his wife Shelly were married on Dec. 27th, 2007.  He has two sons, Brant and Chad and Shelly's one daughter, Ashlee.