Currently we are beginning this new step of loving and serving this community at Cornerstone Bible Church as we learn from them and serve alongside them. My lifelong plan is to eventually set up ministry at a local church in Canada. That is also where I met my wonderful fiancé Ashley, and we have been doing ministry together ever since.
I studied at the Master’s Seminary in Sun Valley, California for four years. I felt the draw into ministry at the end of college (2016), when I observed that more church leadership in Canada was needed, as well as the feely the desire to answer that duty myself. Thankfully, the power of the Spirit through the word convicted me of this, and I mid-way through college I turned my life fully unto what the Lord would desire for my life. In my teenage and early college years I found the desire for myself begin to grow and fight against using my life for the glory of God. I was born and raised into a godly family in Vancouver, Canada, and grew up in the church. As new members, we can testify to Cornerstone being a place where the elders model humility and sacrifice, the saints take God's Word seriously and the church loves one another deeply. Since moving to Orange County, we have been overwhelmed by the kindness Cornerstone Bible Church has shown us. While in Spokane, the Lord answered the prayer of many saints and gave us our two daughters, Margo (adopted in 2010) and Norah (adopted in 2013).Īt the end of 2016, I was brought on by the elders of Cornerstone Bible Church to serve as the Associate Pastor. I was blessed to be hired as Youth Pastor in 2007 and then became the Family and Children's Ministry Pastor in 2011. Following graduation, we moved to Spokane, Washington to serve at Faith Bible Church. During our first year of marriage, the Lord used many circumstances to bring me to The Master's Seminary in Sun Valley, California. In 2000, I married my wife Melissa in Columbus, Ohio. God granted me repentance and faith in the work of Christ on my behalf at a young age. My parents modeled a love for the Lord and His Word, an urgency to share the Gospel and a commitment to do what Jesus said. Whether it has been in the Nursery, Care Group, Bible Study, Missions, Youth Ministry, Administration, or even now as a servant-elder - it has always been my joy and privilege to serve the Lord and His body.īy God's grace, I was born into a home where the Gospel was the main thing. The Lord has blessed me with many opportunities to serve and learn about the ministry of the gospel (in spite of, or even through many struggles with my own pride and sinfulness). I grew up in the Placentia/Yorba Linda area and work as a Family Medicine Physician and Residency Teaching Faculty in Anaheim & Santa Ana. We were married in 2006 and have been blessed with 3 children. By God's grace, I met my wife, Susan, here at CBC and after some persistence and much prayer from many people, she finally said "yes". I learned that I was an even worse sinner than I thought and that God, because of His great love with which He loved us (Eph 2:4), provided not only the payment for my sin through the death of Jesus Christ (1 Tim 2:6), but also the imputed righteousness of Christ through His life and resurrection (2 Cor 5:21 Rom 1:16-17) High, God saved me by His grace around 1992 through the college ministry of Grace Community Church (UCLA Grace on Campus - Go Bruins!).
Having grown up in the church and even attending Christian school through Jr.
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