Our Pastor

Early Life

I was born in 1966 in Fairfield CA where my parents were pastoring. My mother and father were very diligent to raise my brother and I to do the right things in life.

It was in Stockton CA that I received the Acts 2:38 salvation experience. At 8 or 9 years old I repented of my sins, received the Holy Ghost speaking with tongues and was baptized in Jesus’ name. I never looked back. For one thing, Mom’s home was a consecrated home and church life wasn’t an elective. Sure I made plenty of mistakes, prone to all the human failings, but my course was set. Living for God was my magnificent obsession!

In 1984 I graduated high school, then graduated Bible College in 1988.

The Wife And Kids

In all of this, I wasn’t too busy or consecrated to find time for romance! Kristi Claborn, whom we all call KC, was always around those years of growing up. Just the goofy girl with the eye glasses too thick. Whoa, did things change when she became a teenager! Who was this luminescent beauty?

So here we are today, married 20+ years with 3 fantastic kids: Drew, Gentry and Alayna. She and the kids have been there through it all! Five years assisting in Fresno Truth Tabernacle, 4 years traveling in a trailer evangelizing, 14+ years here in Chico, right beside me without fail building it all up brick by brick. God has rewarded my wife and I with 3 ongoing blessings!

Ministerial Background

In high school I knew I wanted to be active doing the work of God, but my call to the pulpit ministry was gradual. No blinding light and voice from heaven, just getting busy and then God opened the doors. I entered full time ministry in 1986 on youth staff at the church I attended in Stockton.

In 1987, I began full time assistant ministry at Truth Tabernacle, Fresno CA. This began eminent years of ministerial formation for me. To this day I count Truth Tabernacle as our home church, yet I am very thankful and ever mindful for all of the instrumental people who marked my life along the way.

So here we are today, 23 years of ministry behind us and 14 of that here in Chico, the city that captured our hearts. Lead on Lord, we’re here to fulfill the call.