Family:
- Wife, Rebecca, married 49 years (50 on October 18, 2025)
- Five Children, Five Spouses, Seven Grandchildren
- Lindsey, husband Steve, Chief of Staff at Trinity Life Center, Sacramento, CA
- Dustin, wife Jamie, Lead Pastors of Church Eleven32, Allen, TX
- Jude and Genesis
- Ryan, wife Kim, Associate Pastor of Church Eleven32, Allen, TX
- Mason and Sadie
- Kacie, husband Brent, Associate Pastor of Church Eleven32, Allen, TX
- Paisley, Cruz and Clay
- Whitney, husband Jordan, Nursing Student at Collin College, Plano, TX – GRADUATING IN MAY 2025!
Education:
- High School Diploma, Sedro Woolley High School, 1970
- BA in Biblical Studies, Northwest University, Kirkland, WA, 1975
- DMin, Northwest Graduate School of the Ministry, 1999
Experience:
- Bethel Assembly of God, Associate Pastor, Sedro Woolley, WA, 1975-1978
- Licensed with Northwest Ministry Network in 1975
- Ordained with Northwest Ministry Network in 1978
- First Assembly of God, Youth Pastor, Spokane, WA, 1978-1983
- Calvary Temple, Associate Pastor, Auburn, WA, 1983-1984
- Life Center, Associate Pastor, Tacoma, WA, 1984-1987
- First Assembly of God, Lead Pastor, Centralia, WA, 1987-2013
- Inspire Church, Lead Pastor, Sedro Woolley, WA, 2013-2018
- Peoples Church, Associate Pastor, Salem, OR, 2018-present
Travels:
- Missions trips to Kenya, Barbados, Honduras, Costa Rica, Bermudas, for building; Scotland, Nepal, and Spain for evangelism, and I interned in Kenya for three months.
- Vision trips to Romania, Albania, Botswana, and Tanzania (to investigate the possibility of building or improving their Bible Colleges).
Miscellaneous:
- Directed Silver Lake Bible Camps in Eastern Washington throughout Youth Pastor career.
- Organized and facilitated the Billy Graham Crusade in Spokane, Washington.
- Taught New Testament Survey at Albania Bible College, Tirana, Albania.
- Taught Systems of Christian Thought for the LEAP Program, Northwest University.
- Founded and directed a Discipleship Ministry School for nine years with 94 graduates.
- Served on Centralia City Council for six years.
- Presbyter for Northwest Ministry Network for six years.
- Served as a Professor for Pathway for over 5 years (November of 2019 – February 2025)
- Served in ministry with Tom Howard, Walt Buck, Dave Tonn, and Fulton Buntain and been influenced by Wayde Goodall, Warren Bullock, Tom Ming, Les Welk, Bob Stone, Scott Erickson, and Sam Johnson.
- Been a part of an eight-week revival, turn around church growth, and numerous building programs.
- Ministry experience has been in both rural and urban settings, churches that ranged from 85 to over 2,000 in attendance.
- [His resume says…] I love golf, Seahawks, fishing, hunting, and anything outdoors.