Timothy L. Farnes

President Timothy L. Farnes was sustained as Young Men General President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 5, 2025. He began serving on August 1, 2025.

His past Church assignments have included Area Seventy, president of the Brazil São Paulo North Mission (2014–17), stake president, counselor in a stake presidency, bishop, high councilor, counselor in a bishopric, and full-time missionary in the Brazil Porto Alegre Mission.

President Farnes studied economics at Brigham Young University and later founded multiple companies in several industries, as well as a humanitarian nonprofit doing work in Ghana, Africa.

Timothy Lowell Farnes was born on June 29, 1969, in Baltimore, Maryland. He and his wife, Linsey, have five children.