Ben York is the founding and lead pastor of Guide Church. Ben, his wife, Ashley, and their four children live in Hilliard where Guide Church began on October 30, 2012. Ben was raised in a pastors home with three brothers and one sister. He was saved at the age of five and surrendered to ministry his junior year of high school and felt the calling to eventually be a Pastor. Ben graduated from a Christian College in Springfield Missouri in 2005.

While there he met his wife Ashley and they were married in the summer of 2005. He served as a youth pastor in Florida, and Oklahoma for the next six years.

When Pastor Ben and Ashley made the decision to plant a church in Columbus, Ohio, with a team of 6 adults and 5 children, they moved a thousand miles away from Oklahoma to start Guide Church.