TIM & NANCY RESIDE joined the ranks of Bright Tomorrows in 2001 with Tim as Executive Director. Married in 1971, Tim and Nancy are known for their authentic “overcomer” message of hope and inspiration. Their decades of lived experience, since Tim’s 1979 bipolar disorder-related mental health breakdown, is what informs all that they say and do in the support and education of others.
Tim is an ordained minister who spent over forty years in church-related ministry. He completed 108 credit hours of study in Practical Theology, inclusive of 36 hours at the doctoral level, and possesses a Master of Arts degree. Nancy has held numerous positions in the world of business, academia, and ministry. She has been a secretary to the president of a major church denomination, an insurance company administrative secretary, a secretary to multiple university professors, a national minister’s conference secretary, a pastoral administrative assistant, and a senior administrative assistant in Human Resources with T.D. Williamson Inc. in Tulsa.
As a MENTAL HEALTH CONSUMER, Tim, together with the partnering assistance of Nancy, has offered Christian faith-based peer support since June of 2001. The terminology “mental health consumer” (MHC) refers to an individual with a mental health condition who is currently receiving treatment or support for that condition. It is a nomenclature that refers to someone who is proactively consuming mental health services with an awareness that they have a choice in their treatment plan, unlike the more passive status indicated by the term “patient.”
By private appointment, as a couple drawing on decades of lived experience, Tim and Nancy also offer themselves as MENTAL HEALTH CONSULTANTS* to those seeking assistance in navigating unchartered mental health and illness related troubled waters. They also, as MENTAL HEALTH COACHES, offer practical advice and assistance, as well as coping insights and tool resources, to those who desire to learn how to optimize their health and live more stable and resilient lives.
After some years in this capacity, it became increasingly obvious to the Bright Tomorrows Board that BT was proving to be an expression of Tim & Nancy’s personal life story, lifework, life ministry, and life mission. It was determined in January of 2009 that Tim should be installed as the President of Bright Tomorrows. In that same year Nancy officially joined the BT Board as Secretary-Treasurer. She is loved and respected for her practical wisdom, sensitivity, and quick compassion. These qualifications are in great measure attributable to her life choices as a faithful wife, mother, ministry partner, caregiver—and now her favorite role, grandmother of five, and great grandmother of one!
*Disclaimer: Tim & Nancy Reside are not certified mental health clinicians nor counselors and do not provide diagnosis, endorse specific treatments, or prescribe medications.
JIM GRINNELL, Vice-President of Bright Tomorrows, is a pastor and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. He attended ORU where he obtained a Master of Divinity degree and later OSU where he also obtained a Master of Science degree in Family Relations. He is a past member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Jim is also certified as a sex therapist with the American Board of Christian Sex Therapists.
Before retirement, Jim specialized in marriage and premarital counseling, affair recovery, and treating sexual issues. Jim has served as the past president of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies, Tulsa chapter. Jim and his wife, Laura, have been married since 1978 and have four children and fourteen grandchildren.
TIM PETERSON, Bright Tomorrows Board Trustee, is a Licensed Marital and Family Therapist and a Licensed Professional Counselor. He earned his Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from Northeastern State University and completed a two-year post-graduate program in Marriage & Family Therapy through the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences.
Since 2001, Tim has worked at Laureate Clinic, where he currently serves as the Clinical Supervisor of Outpatient Services and maintains a part-time practice specializing in the treatment of depression and anxiety, as well as marital therapy. Tim has served on the Executive Board of the Mental Health Association in Tulsa and on the local and international board of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies. Tim and his wife, Diane, have been married since 1982 and have three adult sons.
JAY HOFFMAN, Bright Tomorrows Board Trustee, received his Bachelor of Science degree in Earth Science from Penn State in March of 1974 and continued at PSU in their Graduate School for Meteorology until May 1975. Jay married in July 1975 and moved to Denver, Colorado, with his bride. In 1979 he began a career in Water Treatment and has continued in that profession since moving to Tulsa in 1981. Jay has been an active volunteer in church work, including Youth Leader, Church Deacon, Sunday School teacher, Bible Education Program Leader, Family Share Group Leader, and Church Board Member.
After Jay’s first wife died and went to be with the Lord in December of 2005, he attended and became one of the leaders of a Widow / Widowers Support Group at Christ United Methodist Church for 7 years. In 2010, God brought another lovely lady into his life, and he and Deborah were married in October of that same year. Between them, they have five children and sixteen grandchildren, and since 2015 they have as guardians been parenting two great-nieces.
Advisory Board Members
ROB SELLERS, a Certified Public Accountant for over 35 years, assists clients with financial systems and business-related matters. Since 2001, Rob has been assisting Bright Tomorrows with the financial and administrative needs of the organization. Rob works with individuals, businesses, and non-profit organizations to assist with their financial, tax, and operational needs.
Rob is a member of the Oklahoma Society of CPAs (OSCPA) and the National Association of Registered Social Security Analysts. He is a trustee of OSCPA’s CPA-PAC organization and has been a board director and chairperson of various OSCPA committees. Rob is also a past recipient of the OSCPA’s Outstanding CPA in Business and Industry and President’s awards. Aside from his professional commitments, Rob is actively involved in his church and in a number of civic and charitable organizations in the Tulsa area, including being the past president and board member of the South Tulsa Community House, a social agency providing educational, medical, and food-security services to a disadvantaged 61st & Peoria area of south Tulsa. Rob has been married to his wife, Kim, since 1981 and has two grown sons, Brian and his wife Rebekah, Blake and his wife Madison, and two grandchildren, Andrew and Charlotte.
CRAIG WANN received his Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication from Northeastern State University in 2007. He has over a decade of experience in website and application development, including 6 years working at Church on the Move in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Craig helped to start up an “emotional health ministry” during his time working at the church. Separate from that contribution, he continues to involve himself at his church by leading a small group.
Craig currently runs his own Tulsa web development firm known as CodeZone. He serves Bright Tomorrows by combining his passions for technology, marketing, and entrepreneurship with his calling to those struggling with emotional health issues. He and his wife, Kristi, have been married since 2007 and have two children.
MATTHEW RESIDE is an AVLA integrator—someone that specializes in designing and installing audio, visual, lighting and acoustics for a variety of settings, including churches, schools, live theater and concert venues, etc. Matt developed and honed his skills by training under multiple technicians and AVLA professionals and became Level 1 Audio Certified at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center.
Matt has owned his own company, Lone Wolf Audio LLC, for 21 years. He also contracts his services to other companies across the country. Over the years Matt has assisted Bright Tomorrows by serving them as a consultant with regard to their AVLA needs.
Matt is the son of Tim and Nancy Reside. His father lives with bipolar disorder, thus exposing Matthew to the life-experience of living in the presence of mental illness. Matt is empathically very attuned to people who live with mental health challenges, as well as those who are either their support or caregivers.
Most important to Matt is his family. He is married to his lovely wife, Nella, a native-born Jayhawk Kansan. Together they live in Owasso, Oklahoma with their daughter, Rylee-Ann Mattison. Matt has two adult daughters, Alexia Dawn, and Eryn Lynn-Jordan, and a granddaughter, Rory Lynn Reside.