About Me

I've been a believer in Jesus Christ for over fifty years.

I accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior in 1970, as a young eighth grader.  After going forward at a Baptist Church service, good ol' Arch Baker, a deacon extraordinaire, led me in the "sinner's prayer", and Jesus came into my life.  I was 14 years old at the time.

When I was a sophomore in high school, I went to a small prayer meeting with a girlfriend.  It was there that I was introduced to the baptism of the Holy Spirit.  I had no idea what had happened to me, but after that night my life was on fire for Jesus.  Yes, I was one of those "Jesus freaks" back in the days of the Jesus Movement.

In 1974, at a Youth Camp at Forrest Home Christian Conference Center, I had a clear call from God to go into full time ministry.

My pastor at the Baptist church took a chance on me and in 1976, at the age of twenty, I became a part-time youth pastor, in charge of the High School Ministry at Fullerton First Baptist Church.  I was a junior in college at the time.

I’m a musician – my Bachelor’s degree at CSUF was in Music.

In 1986 Pastor Mark asked me to join his staff as one of his assistants.  I served at that church for eight years.

In 1994, after much prayer and counsel, we decided to step out an plant a new Calvary Chapel in the city of Fullerton.  We did this with the full support and blessing of our home church Calvary Anaheim.

On November 20, 1994, a small group of families began to meet at the Fullerton YMCA.  I served for 25 years as the Senior Pastor of Calvary Chapel of Fullerton.

The bulk of the notes and messages archived on this website come from those 25 years at Calvary Chapel of Fullerton