Tensley Almand,
President and CEO, Atlanta Mission

As the President and CEO, Tensley believes God led him to Atlanta Mission. “Ultimately, to me, coming to Atlanta Mission is the great answer: What should I do with who I claim to follow and what I claim to believe?”

It’s a question that turned the world upside down and led him to an even more exciting but terrifying set of questions: “What’s next? How can we continue to make this city we love better because we’re here?”

Tensley believes Atlanta Mission stands in that crucial gap between broken people and utter destruction and that our city is better because of the work Atlanta Mission does.

Tensley was born and raised in Atlanta. He and his wife Laurie are parents to four kids–Will, Jake, Eli, and Hallie. Prior to Atlanta Mission, he worked in vocational ministry for almost 20 years, and for the previous 12 years, he was the Lead Pastor of Decatur City Church, one of the eight Atlanta-area churches of North Point Ministries.

Tensley graduated from Auburn University with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and a Master’s of Divinity from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.