Bart Tarman is the former Chaplain of Westmont College, having spent 18 years on their faculty and staff. His first ten years after graduating from the University of Denver were spent on the Young Life staff as an Area Director in Littleton, Colorado. Bart also served as the Associate Pastor at El Montecito Presbyterian Church in Montecito, California for five years. Bart and his wife Linda lived in the Washington D.C. from 2002 to 2008 where they worked with Members of the House of Representatives and the Senate prayer groups as a liaison on behalf of these groups to the countries of Latin America. They have been associated with the National Prayer Breakfast for over 30 years. Their travels have taken them on multiple trips to many countries in Central and South American countries, but also to the Middle East and Asia. He has been deeply impacted by seeing the essential relevance and cross-cultural nature of Jesus and the principles he taught.