October 20 - 24, 2025

Our annual Keenagers Conference is an exciting and spiritually refreshing time for adults 50 and over amid the extraordinary fall foliage of the Western North Carolina mountains. Hear from an inspiring guest speaker, enjoy great live music and engaging fellowship, and take part in plenty of fun activities like guided nature tours, a fall festival, and Reformed Bingo. It will be an experience you won't soon forget! Call our office today to register!

2025 Speaker: Pastor Wallace Tinsley

Wallace and Ruth Tinsley live in York, South Carolina. They were high school sweethearts, as Ruth’s family moved into Wallace’s hometown of Chester SC when they were 16 years old. By God’s grace, both grew up in Christian homes, both recited the catechisms, both were active members of PCUS churches, and both committed their lives to Christ at age five. Wallace was led to the Lord by his grandmother, in whose home his family lived. Ruth responded to the gospel with her parents, following family devotions. Both graduated from Chester High School. Ruth graduated from King College and Wallace from Davidson College. Their wedding in June 1973 took place six months before the first General Assembly of the PCA in Birmingham. Ruth’s dad, Ed Robeson, had been active in Concerned Presbyterians, and both Wallace and Ruth were ready to enter the new denomination when it should be formed.  

They served the first three summers of their marriage at Bethel PCA Church near Union Springs, Alabama, entering Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia at the end of the first summer. They became charter members of the first New Life OPC Church in Jenkintown, living on the same block as Jack and Rose Marie Miller, who had a great impact on their lives. After two years of studying under a marvelous faculty, they spent an intern year at Second Presbyterian Church in Greenville, SC, laboring directly under gracious and Christlike Ruling Elders, as the church was between the pastorates of Gordon Reed and Paul Settle. Following the third year at Westminster and the completion of Wallace’s MDiv and a ThM in Old Testament, they returned to Second Pres, where he was ordained in 1977 by Calvary Presbytery (then the whole state of South Carolina) and served as Assistant Pastor and then Associate Pastor under Paul Settle for 3½ years. In 1981, they responded to a call to serve at Filbert PCA in York SC. 

Ruth’s parents, Ed and Austin Robeson, moved to Ridge Haven in 1980, where Ed served as the first Administrator of Ridge Haven for ten years, from 1980 until 1990, overseeing much of the early development of the camp and conference center. Austin’s mother, Clara Austin Mastin Averett, lived with them for ten years and had a gracious impact on the Ridge Haven community, so these relationships offer clues toward understanding some of the names of the buildings at Ridge Haven. Wallace directed the first four Senior High Conferences at Ridge Haven, with a three-way cooperative effort of the Committee on Christian Education and Publications, Calvary Presbytery, and Ridge Haven, as the programming was beginning to be developed. Wallace and Ruth explored the then future Ridge Haven by topographic maps with Paul and Georgia Settle, picking their way through and crawling under the rhododendrons and mountain laurel from Frozen Creek Road to the waterfalls just after the property had been donated to the PCA by Ken and Polly Keyes. 

Wallace and Ruth have four children, whom they homeschooled for 18 years, and fifteen grandchildren. Wallace’s parents lived with them for 8 years and Ruth’s parents for 4 years, at the end of their lives. Wallace retired from the pastorate in 2022 after serving as pastor of Filbert PCA Church in York for 41 blessed years. They continue to live in the house that was once the Filbert manse, and they continue to be active in the life of the church at Filbert and in Fellowship Presbytery of the PCA. Wallace authored a Bible study guide on the life of Joseph, View from the Top, originally designed for the PCA’s WIC, at the request of Georgia Settle.  

Wallace presently serves on the Board of Released Time Bible Education for York School District #1, which allows an interdenominational team to transport students in grades 5-8 off the public school campus to churches, in order to teach the Bible and present the gospel of Christ with no content restrictions. He also serves as chairman of the board of directors of Consummation Ministries, which oversees the writing and preaching ministry of O. Palmer Robertson since his and Joanna’s return from the mission field at African Bible University in Uganda. 

2025 Worship Leader: Greg Hill

We are pleased to welcome back Greg Hill as our musician for Keenagers. Greg Hill is a native of Gadsden, AL where he began playing piano at age four and formal training at age 6. He graduated from Westminster Christian School (Gadsden), Belmont University (Nashville, Bachelor of Music in Church Music) and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (Ft. Worth, Masters in Church Music). Greg enjoyed educational emphasis on choral and instrumental conducting, as well as studying voice and organ.

Greg has served in the PCA for 27 years. He has been the Director of Worship, Music and the Arts at Oak Mountain (Birmingham), Westminster (Gainesville, GA), and at Christ Church (Atlanta) and Village 7 (Colorado Springs). Colorado Springs is home now for the Hill family, although they long for and tap into their deep southern roots often, especially on SEC Football Saturdays and whenever there is fried okra around.

One of Greg's passions is teaching and training on how to develop "Singing Congregations" with strength and understanding as well as "how to's for congregants leading congregants" in worship. He enjoys amateur landscaping, travel, and outdoor water activities. One of his favorite things is family time. Kristi, his wife of 26 years, has her own businesses, Kristi Hill Music and Kristi Hill Coaching, providing faith-based coaching for women in seasons of change and transition. Cooper is almost 21 and attends Pikes Peak State College and Vivian is 14 and began her first year of High School this fall at the Village School.

For more information on Keenagers, please call the Ridge Haven office at 828-862-3916. Office hours are 9 am - 5:30 pm (Monday - Friday).