Born in Eureka, CA. to Ernie and Gloria Beeson, Russell has lived in Colorado since he was three years old. He spent much of his life in and out of Christian churches serving in various ministries, but he did not know the Lord. At the age of 36, and in a life and death situation, Russ met the Lord on the side of a mountain. Russ bargained with the Lord and said that if He saved him from death and delivered him out of the situation he was in, he would forever belong to Him. Indeed, God delivered Russ and his life has forever been changed! From that moment on, Russ went forward with an ever growing and passionate love for the Lord, and with a deep desire to serve the Him, Russ came to know the Lord who is Salvation, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of Israel.

Within two weeks after his year 2000 mountainside experience, Russ found a church and began attending. A year later, Russ sensed a full-time call to ministry and so he enrolled in the Heritage Institute of Ministry in Aurora, CO. But, no matter how hard he tried, Russ struggled to get some very basic questions answered; questions like, “If the Bible is the Word of God, why has two-thirds of it been done away with?” “Why doesn’t anyone in the Bible celebrate Christmas or Easter?” “Why does God command festivals that we don't pay attention to?” “Why don't we as Christians keep the Sabbath like God commanded us to?” Yet no one was able to answer any of these seemingly simple questions, at least not from the Word of God.

In 2002, Russ was presented with an incredible perspective on the Word of God; and almost immediately, these once difficult questions began to be answered, and straight from the written Word of God. Russ learned that the God who does not change really does not change and he began a new walk, trying as best he could to walk out the Wrod of God as Yeshua (Jesus) and His disciples did. Russ found out that Yeshua and the apostles were actually Jewish! Russ graduated with a Certificate of Messianic Studies and also completed the Harvest's Leadership Training Program in August 2009. Russ was licensed in September 2009 and currently serves as the Executive Pastor at Kehilat T'nuvah (The Harvest) in Thornton, CO. Russ married his beautiful wife Erica in 2006, and all together they have four children, Lindsey born in 1986, Brent in 1995, Philip in 1997, and Avigail in March of 2009.