Staff Bios
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Dr. Leo Endel - Senior Pastor
In July of 2025, Leo and his wife Sarah moved to St. Louis to be with their family—especially their grandson, Joshua Leo! They have quickly grown to love St. Louis and adjusted to their new home a lot faster than their adorable, anxious Golden Doodle, Bailey.
He recently retired as the Executive Director of the Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention and as the senior pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Rochester, Minnesota.
In addition to serving as pastor of Florissant Valley Baptist Church, he continues to teach doctoral leadership classes and serves as a dissertation chairperson for Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City. He also teaches pastors and churches how to do strategic planning.
Leo Endel was born in Tampa, Florida into a tight knit Air Force family that moved six months later to Anchorage, Alaska. Before graduating from high school, they moved ten more times living in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Alaska (again), Upper Michigan, California, the Philippines and finally back to Missouri. His dad was from Texas and his mom was from Nevada. When they retired from the Air Force, they settled in Knob Noster, Missouri where his dad taught sixth grade. Leo finished his last two years of high school and graduated from Knob Noster High School. His mom, Pat, still lives just north of Knob Noster.
Leo is a Business Administration graduate of the University of Central Missouri where he received the Wall Street Journal Award in recognition of outstanding academic achievement in Finance. He received his master’s of divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and his doctorate from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary where his dissertation was recognized as the top research project of the Southern Baptist Convention in 2012. In 2014, he was named Midwestern Seminary's Alumnus of the Year.
Dr. Endel has pastored in Leeton, Missouri and Sioux City, Iowa, and Rochester, Minnesota. He has served as interim pastor in Rochester and Bloomington, Minnesota and in Madison and La Crosse, Wisconsin. and has written two books, Life Is All About Relationships and Where Do We Go From Here: Strategy Planning for the Smaller Church.
He and his wife Sarah have two daughters: Rachel Sellmeyer, who lives here in St. Louis, and Lydia Endel who lives just north of Honolulu, HI. His wife, Sarah, is a retired college mathematics professor who lives to love their grandson, and of course, Jesus too!
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Tammy Stevenson - minister of music and discipleship
A St. Louis native, Tammy grew up in Florissant and attended Florissant Valley Baptist Church as a child and teenager. "Hazelwood Central" is the answer to the infamous question, "Where'd ya go to high school?"! She moved to Kansas City and then New York City to study music before returning to St. Louis to join the staff of a sister church. She was pleased to join the Florissant Valley staff in March of 1993. Her husband, John, is a retired guidance counselor and coach. They have two beautiful daughters - one a pharmacist, and the other an English Lit. teacher at Westminster Christian Academy. When Tammy isn't at church, you'll find her with camera in hand (and hopefully a passport, along with her family)!
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Andy Shorley - Minister of Students
A St. Louis native, Andy was born and raised in Florissant, Missouri. He lived in Florissant for fourteen years, before moving to the Lone Star State of Texas to be with his mother. After a brief stay in Texas, Andy returned to Missouri, and moved to St. Charles. Andy is a graduate of Francis Howell High School, and went on to college to get his bachelor's degree in Actuarial Science. After a year working as an Actuary, Andy felt his call to ministry, and is now the Minister of Youth at Florissant Valley Baptist Church. Andy is married with two children.
