What do you love the most about your job?
The relationship with people and the meaning it gives to my life

How do you and your ministry serve the congregation?
I serve the church by working with the pastors and helping them in their role. I watch over the finances and buildings. I try to make everything run well so that what I do is behind the scenes.

What do you do or where do you go to relax?
I go to the Big Sur up at San Simeon and totally kick back.

What is your favorite movie?
It's a wonderful life with Jimmy Stewart

What are your hobbies?
I love participating in sports especially golf and tennis and I really love to read

What is the last good book you read?
The book Integrity by Henry Cloud was a very good book and I am reading the book True-Faced

Where did you grow up?
I grew up in a quiet Swedish Midwest town of Rockford, Il.

What would we be surprised to know about you?
I played the Trombone in the band for seven years. I wanted to be good but I have a tin ear.

How did you come to WACC?
Pastor Bill and the Holy Spirit - I'm not sure who influenced who the most

What do you love the most about your job?
Getting to meet all of the wonderful people at WACC - what a great community of loving, caring brothers and sisters. Thanks for being so welcoming to our entire family.

How do you and your ministry serve the congregation?
My role at WACC and my wiring as a person is caring for others. I hope to continue the great tradition of care in our church community. I will also be involved with the care of our missionaries. Our goal is to begin a recovery program shortly for those struggling with addictive and compulsive behaviors. Another dream in the works is to begin an Institute for Leadership Development. What an exciting place to work.

What is your favorite movie?
Princess Bride

What are your hobbies?
I love the outdoors, I love to hike, fish enjoy nature.

What would we be surprised to know about you?
Though my graduate work is in counseling, my undergraduate degree is in Forest Management. I also worked as the Assistant Dean for the College of Natural Resources at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

What is the last good book you read?
To Know and Love God by David K Clark

Where is your favorite place to vacation?
The Grand Caymans

Where did you grow up?
I grew up in Racine Wisconsin - on Lake Michigan just 60 miles north of Chicago

What do you love the most about your job?
Seeing people develop bigger world views.

How do you and your ministry serve the congregation?
We encourage them to engage in the Cause of Christ, globally.

What do you do or where do you go to relax?
Any golf course or chair with a book in hand.

What is your favorite movie?
Schindler's List

What is the last good book you read?
Sacred Romance by John Eldredge

Where did you grow up?
Whittier

What would we be surprised to know about you?
I am a twin.

What do you love the most about your job?
I love helping others experience God’s presence and power in their life in new and deeper ways. I love sharing the truth and reality of Jesus Christ with people who have given up on God or feel that faith is irrelevant for their life.

How do you and your ministry serve the congregation?
My title is lead pastor of Spiritual Formation. What that means in I am here to help the body of Christ grow in loving God and loving others. I am also here to serve on the teaching team on weekends and oversee the women’s ministries.

What do you do or where do you go to relax?
I would sit in my living room back in Minnesota and look out onto a little pond next to our house. That is where I would go to pray, read, write my sermons, and encounter God. It was my holy ground. I am still waiting for that new place here in CA.

What is your favorite movie?
My Big Fat Greek Wedding

What is the last good book you read?
I can’t pick just one!!

Where did you grow up?
I grew up in a small town, Redwood Falls, Minnesota (population 6,000!!)

What would we be surprised to know about you?
I am friends with the former president of the Minnesota Atheists. When I was on the teaching teach at Calvary, I interviewed him as part of a message I did one Sunday on “I have a friend that doesn’t believe that God exists” Two out of his three reasons he doesn’t believe in God is because of how he watching Christians treat others—the Church needs to hear this.

What do you love the most about your job?
Working with people, teaching and preaching God's word.

How do you and your ministry serve the congregation?
Support and encourage marriage, minister to men by understanding their needs, train, educate and relate to growing families, teach and preach God's word, hopefully inspiring others to seek God, meet with and council those in need.

What is your favorite movie?
Family Man

What do you do or where do you go to relax?
Mountains, Beach, Golf Courses, anywhere with our trailer.

What is the last good book you read?
The Great Omission by Dallas Willard

Where did you grow up?
Whittier

What would we be surprised to know about you?
I'm color blind

What do you love the most about your job?
My job assumes that people are ready to talk about more than sports and politics. What makes life worth living is what seems to be just under the surface of the mundane details of our lives. I love talking with people who are willing to start there.

How do you and your ministry serve the congregation?
I'm involved in college ministry and prayer. So with prayer, we pray for a lot of people each week. When people fill out prayer requests and put them in the plate on Sunday morning, every one of those really does get prayed for. With College ministry (Illuminate), I love training the next generation of church leadership. They inspire me.

What do you do or where do you go to relax?
I love playing with my kids. I'm getting into golf too. Paradise is reading sitting on the porch in the morning with a cup of black coffee, reading the paper. It makes me feel like a grown up!

What is your favorite movie?
About a Boy. It's about finding the courage to do the hard things in life. It's about not just living safely.

What are your hobbies?
Sports. Reading. Long walks on the beach. Submarine maintenance. Training for the annual Mr. Universe competition. Helping Tiger Woods with his long game. I'm also Roger Clemens new strength coach. The usual.

What is the last good book you read?
Thomas Keating's, The Human Condition

What would we be surprised to know about you?
I have a lot of hobbies.

How do you and your ministry serve the congregation?
I have the privilege of mobilizing our congregation to meet needs in our community, oversee our Connections ministry, which is our ushers, greeters, connections volunteers and parking lot attendants, oversee our church-wide special events, support our communications department and assist in women's ministries.

How did you come to WACC?
At the end of high school, my good friend, Mary Pickett, invited me to the youth group at WACC. I've not left since!

What do you do or where do you go to relax?
San Clemente beach. The ocean does a lot for me.

What are your hobbies
I love spending quality time with my friends and family, laughing with my roommates and learning new things. I enjoy being outdoors, going to the movies, going out to eat, exercising and listening to music.

What is the last good book you read?
Just Walk Across the Room, by Bill Hybels

Where did you grow up?
Whittier

Where is your favorite place to vacation?
Hawaii. ALOHA!

What is your favorite dessert?
Baskins Robbins Cappuccino Blasts, no doubt!

What would we be surprised to know about you?
I used to do field reporting for a jazz station in Long Beach called KKJZ, 88.1 FM. Growing up, I wanted to be a broadcast journalist.

What do you love the most about your job?
Being creative, and using my skills in a ministry setting.

What do you do or where do you go to relax?
Watching movies at home, experimenting with still photography, venturing into nature by myself.

How do you and your ministry serve the congregation?
Add light, amplify sound, and project multimedia to our congregation to enhance their worship experience. In other words, make things look and sound neat.

What is the last good book you read?
"His Needs, Her Needs"

What is your favorite movie?
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Where did you grow up?
Atascadero in Central Coastal California, and here in Whittier 10.

Where is your favorite place to vacation?
Joshua Tree, Owens Valley, and the Eastern Sierra Mountain Range

What is your favorite dessert?
Chocolate Thunder from Down Under

What do you love the most about your job?
I get to have fun all the time.

How do you and your ministry serve the congregation?
We hang out with the craziest people in the church.

What are your hobbies?
Surf, TV, and eating good food.

What is the last good book you read?
Ben Hogan's Five Lessons of the Modern Fundamentals of Golf.

What is your favorite movie?
The Goonies

Where did you grow up?
Whittier

Where is your favorite place to vacation?
The next place I have never been.

What is your favorite dessert?
More dinner. I don't eat much sugar.

What would we be surprised to know about you?
I love talk radio.

What do you love the most about your job?
I love working, playing, serving and just "being" with women! When I am working with women, I feel God's pleasure!

How do you and your ministry serve the congregation?
I work with a team of women who provide ministries and events that give opportunities for encountering Jesus, becoming personally acquainted with him, and growing intimately in a relationship with him. We also offer venues where women can connect with other women and form significant friendships. These are just a few of the many things Women's Ministries provides at WACC.

What is your favorite movie?
I like a variety of movies but Citizen Kane is one old favorite.

What do you do or where do you go to relax?
John and I love the ocean and going up to the Big Sur is our favorite way to relax and unwind.

What are your hobbies?
Traveling, reading (I enjoy participating in a book club), genealogy (I am a member of the DAR), eating out, spending time with friends and family, partying and serving Christ and people.

What is the last good book you read?
The Kite Runner and The Day of a Thousand Suns

Where did you grow up?
In the Midwest, northwest of Chicago.

What is your favorite dessert?
Hot fudge sundae

What would we be surprised to know about you?
That I am a fan of Stephen King. I love his books The Stand, The Storm of the Century and Misery!

What do you love the most about your job?
I work in a gym & my office smells like socks.

What do you do or where do you go to relax?
I go golfing to relax and I come home all frustrated.

How do you and your ministry serve the congregation?
15-Love...stuff like that.

What is your favorite movie?
Monty Python & the Holy Grail

What are your hobbies?
Hobbies flew out the window when I became a "dad"

What is the last good book you read?
Excluding the Bible?.....I was required to read "Of Mice & Men" in high school...does that count?

Where did you grow up?
That's debatable

What would we be surprised to know about you?
I'm not always this serious.

What is your favorite movie?
Hard to pick just one. I've only purchased a few movies on DVD including Lord of the Rings, Saving Private Ryan, and Toy Story. For right now I'd say Thin Red Line, the 1998 version directed by Terrence Malick because of its cinematography, contrast of nature and horrors of war, and the poetic, psychological study of life's biggest questions. Toy Story is pretty darn good too, best buddy film ever.

How did you come to WACC?
I knew Pastor Bill from our Chicago days in the 90's. I had moved to California several years before Bill came out to be the Sr. Pastor WACC. We met up once he move out to CA and I visited the church a few times. Eventually I was looking to get back into church ministry and WACC was in need of a new pastor. That was in 1996.

What do you love the most about your job?
Feeling God work through me while helping others connect with Him.

What do you do or where do you go to relax?
The ocean or mountains. My bed is nice too. I highly recommend spending decent money on a good bed. After all we spend a 1/3rd of our life in it.

How do you and your ministry serve the congregation?
Me and the rest of the tech team attempt to provide a technically seamless worship service. If you don't notice us then we have done our job well. We also get to be part of planning and creating media for services.

What are your hobbies?
My job. Not all of it but most. Isn't that what they tell you, find a job that is your hobby and work will never work a day in your life. Don't tell Bill A. or John O, I still have to pay the mortgage.

What would we be surprised to know about you?
I've completed all the course work for an M.A. in Human Development. Could never get through that darn thesis project.

Where did you grow up?
South Florida. Boca Raton to be exact. Which is about 50 miles north of Miami.

Where is your favorite place to vacation?
Moniceto, and Yosemite or anywhere my family can be together and have nothing to do.

What is your favorite dessert?
Which one isn't? Love the sweets but probably a really perfect, warm, soft, chocolate chip cookie w/ nuts and a cold glass of milk.

What do you love the most about your job?
Kids! They never cease to amaze me, challenge me, and keep me honest. They're the best!

How do you and your ministry serve the congregation?
We love to make church fun and relevant for kids while providing a chance for 'grown-ups' to learn and grow at their own level.

What is your favorite movie?
The Little Princess among many others! (The newer version - not Shirley Temple)

What is the last good book you read?
Blue Like Jazz

Where did you grow up?
Burbank, California. It was fun because Disney, Warner Brothers and NBC studios were all in my backyard!

Where is your favorite place to vacation?
Lake Powell or Lake Tahoe on a houseboat; Hawaii; or anywhere my husband and children are!

What is your favorite dessert?
Ice Cream!

What would we be surprised to know about you?
I played a tightrope walker in the musical 'Carnival' in High School where I met my husband who played a gypsy!