Galyn Wiemers
(written in 2006)
  Galyn is a shop teacher and coach at a public school.

Galyn Wiemers is the Bible teacher for Generation Word. After having grown up in Presbyterian, EUB and Methodist churches, Galyn was saved at the age of 16 in the fall 1976 at a Lowell Lundstom concert. In the spring of 1977 he went forward to recommit his life to the Lord at a David Wilkerson meeting. In 1979 Galyn met Toni Mohr and they were married in 1981. They joined a Baptist church and after college graduation they attended a Bible Chapel aligned with Dallas Theological Seminary. They both graduated from college at Northwest Missouri State as teachers and coaches in 1982. In 1984 God stirred Galyn and Toni's hearts with the Word of God. In 1986 Galyn began teaching the Bible in the classrooms of a church with a membership of 3,500. Over the next five years Galyn's opportunities grew to teaching several times a week in the local church and became a guest speaker at a local Bible college. In 1992 Toni and Galyn moved back to Iowa with four boys to take a job at a high school teaching house construction and wood working. Both Galyn and Toni coached. A Grace Brethren church alligned with Grace College in Winona Lake, Indiana asked Galyn to start a youth group. The youth grew into a weekly group of 75. By 1994 Galyn was hired as the pastor of the Grace Brethren church. In 1999 Galyn was given the chance to teach the Bible everyday in the high school classroom in a Christian school in West Des Moines, Iowa. The family moved to West Des Moines, Iowa with six boys. In April of 2002 Galyn and Toni start Generation Word Bible teaching ministry in their house. Galyn is currently teaching full time in a public school as a middle school shop teacher. Galyn is in his fifth year at Dallas Center-Gimes Middle School in Dallas Center, Iowa where he also coaches. Two of their sons are in college, two are in high school, one is in middle school and one is in elementary. The family attends the Faith Evangelical Free church in Audubon, Iowa where Galyn teaches as the pastor each Sunday and Wednesday. Galyn teaches for Generation Word four times a week, does radio programs, and distributes more than a 1,500 CD's each month.



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