Curt & Mineke Audet first joined VVBC when Curt began serving as our interim pastor on June 13, 2021. Eight months later on February 13, 2022, he was unanimously approved as our new pastor. Pastor Curt has served in pastoral, evangelism and discipleship ministry since the early 90’s.
Pastor Curt’s Bio
Born in Waterbury, Connecticut, Curt was raised with one sister and one brother in a loving home. Curt moved several times in Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont. In 1982, at the age of 13 Curt joined his mother, brother and sister to hear and receive the Gospel message at a Billy Graham Crusade in Manchester, New Hampshire.
As a teenager, Curt began to grow in the Lord through Bible studies his family would have together. In that time period, Curt began to sense a call from the Lord to pursue pastoral ministry. He says,
“During this time in God’s Word with my family, I began to have a strong desire to help people learn what I was learning in Christ and to be a part of encouraging other people. It was like this: I began to see myself as one beggar telling another beggar where I found the Bread. And that Bread of Life is Jesus.” – Pastor Curt
His goal then–as well as now –was to focus on discipleship, teaching and preaching the Bible.
In response to his calling, Curt began attending Faith Bible College, a correspondence course of study he could do while working as a carpenter in Vermont where was living. A year of this study then led Curt to make the move to Chicago in 1989 to attend Moody Bible Institute where he earned his BA in 1994, and began working on his MA in recent years. In the mid to late ’90s he served as the pastor of Leavitt Street Bible Church on the near north side of Chicago. He worked with LSBC until 2000.
Serving with Fox Valley Bible Church from 2000-2009 brought Curt to the St. Charles, area . From 2009 to 2021 Curt served at Harvest Bible Church in Elgin and Aurora. He worked as a carpentry as well through these years both in Chicago and in St. Charles.
Since coming to Valley View Baptist in the summer of 2021, Pastor Curt has taught the church through consistent, expositional messages, working through the Book of Hebrews, Acts, Matthew and other passages.
In January 2022, he introduced a year-long Chronological Bible individual reading plan for the church members and is continuing to encourage VVBC members each year to read and to get together to discuss the daily readings. He has gone above and beyond to come alongside our members to shepherd through many situations, showing his commitment to VVBC even before becoming our pastor.
FAMILY
Pastor Curt has been married to his wife, Mineke, since 1990. Together, they have four sons: Gordon, Benjamin, Timothy and Peter along with thirteen grandchildren. Pastor Curt and Mineke moved their family from Chicago to Saint Charles in 2000 to serve alongside Fox Valley Bible Church on Randall Road. Pastor Curt’s ministry at VVBC is currently bi-vocational as he is also accepts carpentry jobs when available.
Mineke Audet – Pastor’s Wife
Mineke grew up in Vermont where she and Curt met at Vergennes Union High School. She came to the Lord at a Steve Green Concert at age 18. Mineke has worked with special needs children and adults over the years. Mineke loves being Curt’s wife, the mom of their sons, and really loves being a grandmother, now of 13 beautiful children. Mineke has served together in ministry alongside Curt since before they were married in 1990. Mineke loves children’s ministry, AWANA, singing along with others in the choir, and strengthening and helping Curt. She leads a ladies group called “Daughters of the King” every third Tuesday which involves Scripture and crafting as well as encouraging other women in their walk with the Lord.