Pastor van Eyk has served as the pastor of Providence Church since April 2024. Prior to moving to Cumming, Georgia, he served 22 years at Providence Church (OPC) in Greensboro, North Carolina as its evangelist and organizing minister. He is a native of Ontario, Canada, and a graduate of the University of Western Ontario.  After working in the corporate world, Arie moved his family to Greenville, SC, to take up studies at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, where he received a Master of Divinity in 2003. In addition to his regular ministerial duties of preaching, prayer, and shepherding, he serves in our presbytery. He has been married to Wilma for 37 years and has been richly blessed with six children and 20+ grandchildren.

Isaac was raised in Cumming, Georgia, along with his three siblings. Much of his family life was centered around the church and Christian school, with his dad being an elder and his mom being a teacher.  He was carefully taught the reformed faith and a Christian worldview at home, school, and church. The Lord provided many opportunities throughout college to serve as a youth leader for his church, host of a reformed Bible study in college, and an active member of RUF at the University of Georgia. Isaac met his wife, Christine (Pappas) Brown, during their college Bible study in Athens, and they were married in 2002.  They have been blessed with three children. They attended Covenant Presbyterian Church, OPC, in Buford for many years until the Lord moved Isaac and several others to pray and seek after the Lord's will to start a work in Cumming. 

Michael Harper has been an elder at Providence OPC since its inception as a organized church in the OPC. Although he was not raised in a Christian home,  the Lord saved him shortly after high school and has never looked back. He is married to his beautiful bride, Renee, and they have seven children together.

Currently, Michael works in the IT consulting industry. His desire for Cumming, GA is that the Lord would use Providence to continue to spread the gospel and expand his kingdom in our city.

Born in Mississippi and raised in Alabama, Darrell’s childhood consisted of a series of moves up and down the East Coast of the United States during his growing up years. He came to saving faith as a as a young boy and was baptized in a Southern Baptist church in, of all places, Pittsburg, PA.  He was blessed to have always been in a Christian home but it wasn’t until he was in his 20s that he came under reformed teaching. Shortly after college, Darrell met his wife, Melissa, and she introduced him to the PCA church she was attending in Montgomery, AL. Together, they have four children.

They met and were married nearly 30 years ago and have been fortunate to have served in several solidly reformed churches as they’ve moved around the country, including church homes in Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina.  Darrell was ordained as a deacon and then later, as an elder during his time in South Carolina.  They later returned to Georgia and their church home at Providence.

Bill currently is serving as elder emeritus at Providence (OPC). Bill and his wife Marsha professed their faith in Christ Jesus, by his irresistible grace, in 1975. After the Lord called them, it was a short time until they became aware of the wonderful doctrines of grace and the reformed faith. Bill served in a Reformed Presbyterian Church as a deacon and then elder since 1979. Bill helped establish a Christian School in Dunwoody, GA, which is now Covenant Christian School in Cumming GA. Bill was a founding elder at the establishment of Providence Presbyterian OPC in 2017. Bill and his wife Marsha have been blessed with four children and 11 grandchildren. Bill has an MBA in business and marketing and has enjoyed a career in commercial and residential real estate.