After graduating from Awalt I went to Foothill
Community College for two years. Went to Germany for
the '72 Summer Olympics with a Christian youth ministry
called YWAM (Youth With A Mission). Received my draft
notice while in Germany and then joined the U.S. Coast
Guard Reserve.Spent 6 months basic training and active
service inAlameda, CA, Newport News, VA and Baltimore,
MD.
Finished undergraduate college work in Santa Cruz at
Bethany Bible College in 1974. Went to work as a
volunteer youth pastor at my home church Foothill
Christian Center in Los Altos where I met my wife,
Valerie, in the summer of 1975. We married in September
1976. The following year I became a full-time youth
pastor at Foothill Christian Center. Served there 5
years. In March 1982 a friend and I co-founded a
church in San Jose called North Valley Christian
Fellowship. I served there as executive pastor and
then co-pastor for 15 years. While there I worked on
my masters degree and graduated from Fuller
Theological Seminary (Pasadena,CA) in 1994. Valerie
and I then founded and pastored a church in Fremont,
California by the name of Fremont Christian Fellowship
from March 1997 to August 2000. In September 2000 I
took a position on the senior pastoral staff of
Fremont Community Church in Fremont, CA and served
there 5 years.
In November 2005 I became the Lead Pastor at Shorelife
Community Church in Capitola, CA whee I am stil
serving today. Valerie and I have been married 35
years. We have three married kids: Josh (33), Ariel
(29), and Nat (25). We have five granddaughters and
one more on the way.