About Our Church

Brandon was born in Portland, Oregon, before being raised in Washington. He graduated from Bellevue Christian School. He later graduated from the University of Washington with a degree focused on accounting and technology systems. With the help of his partners, Brandon co-founded Attunix Corporation, a technology services firm, and served as a Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer (COO) until they sold the company in 2018. Brandon is a bi-vocational pastor who enjoys creating meaningful organizations. When Brandon moved to Bozeman, he soon realized God wanted him to use his “God-given” vocational skills for the Kingdom. And so, after much prayer, he felt the Lord calling him to join Ashley Denton in planting MVCC. And serving MVCC has been an unforeseen joy in his life. When not working at church, Brandon can be found working on one or more technology startups or enjoying time with friends and family. Brandon met his wife, Cara, during college, and together they have four amazing children: Caitlin, Lilly, Alex, and Sam. In 2018, the family decided to uproot their lives and found a new home in Bozeman, Montana. Each day they feel blessed to call the Bozeman area home. And they wonder how they survived so many decades “literally” under a dark cloud in Washington. Brandon enjoys apologetics, reading, skiing, outdoor activities, and sport shooting in his free time, but above all, he loves spending time with his family.

Jacob Trausch

Worship Leader

Jacob is our Worship Director at Mountain View. He was born and raised in Irvine, California. At a young age, he became interested in music and quickly began serving in music ministry at church. In 2021, Jacob moved to Bozeman to attend Montana State University. Although technically moving to Montana for school, he was actually drawn here because of the endless opportunities to fly fish. However, the Lord used his move to Bozeman to expose him to believers who taught him to care deeply about Christ, God’s Word, and the local Church. Jacob is grateful to have been able to serve as an intern and worship leader in the college ministry of another church for a few years, where the Lord solidified and grew his passion for worship ministry, before attending Mountain View. Now in his senior year at MSU, he will be graduating in the spring of 2025 with a B.S. in Secondary Education with hopes to teach high school history.
Jacob met his fiancé Marian within weeks of first moving to Bozeman and they plan to get married this fall. In his free time, you can find Jacob fly fishing, backpacking, skiing, playing guitar, and spending time with friends and family. Jacob’s desire is that God alone would be glorified and that the saints would be encouraged by singing truth each week.

Originally from Lakewood, Colorado, she followed the Lord’s call to move to Montana for school at MSU and couldn’t imagine living anywhere else. While completing school she served as a Children’s Director of another church and fell in love with children’s ministry. She loved being able to use both her passion for teaching and love for the Lord to help further the Kingdom. Torie graduated with a B.S. in Elementary Education K-8 and used it to teach in both public and private schools before the Lord called her out of the classroom and back into Children’s Ministry here at MVCC. 

Torie met her husband Adam the first week in college and they have been inseparable ever since. They have one daughter, Joanna, and a sweet dog, Denali. When she’s not teaching, you can find Torie spending time with her family, outdoors exploring God’s vast creation, in the kitchen baking, or curled up with a book and a cup of tea. In all things it is her desire to see God glorified and His name lifted High!