Regional Director (Central CA)

559-455-3356 // tmccracken@pcanet.org

Tim McCracken - Testimony and Bio

For nearly twenty-nine years (beginning in June of 1988), Rev. Tim McCracken served as Pastor of First Reformed Presbyterian Church in Fresno, CA, before coming on staff with Metanoia Prison Ministries as Regional Director San Joaquin Valley March 1, 2017. 

In 2006, Pastor Tim received a letter from an inmate at the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison (SATF) at Corcoran, CA, which asked, “Do you ever write to prisoners?”   Through fellowship with that man, and through the chapel bible study that formed as a result, Pastor Tim began to realize the vastness of the prison population near Fresno and the uniqueness of both the need and opportunity there.  Fresno is located within an hour and ten minutes of eight prisons (six CA State Prisons and two Federal facilities) holding more than 22,000 long-term incarcerated souls.

Currently (Nov. 2026) through his work with Metanoia, Pastor Tim and his volunteers have been granted the privilege of ministering steadily, weekly, in thirteen of the twenty-five area chapels.

Tim and his wife Lori are the parents of three grown, married children, grandparents of nine, and they both have a great love for music.  Lori is an accompanist, and Tim enjoys a cappella harmony singing.