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I grew up with three sisters, graduated from UCLA as an Economics major, and currently work as a Lead Customer Service representative at the Social Security Office in Anaheim. I live in Cerritos with my wife Cara, our two daughters and our dog.
I did not grow up in the church. My parents were first generation immigrants and ran a restaurant with my grandmother for several years. My father’s dream was to become successful and well known, and he instilled this dream within his children. My sisters and I worked in the family restaurant until it eventually closed in 2004.
I was not a Christian until my early thirties. I was stressed from work, dissatisfied and desperately seeking more in life. I was invited to church by my future brother-in-law and heard the Word of God for the first time. After attending church for a while, I was invited to lunch by my pastor, Donald Moy, who asked where I was spiritually. I was not yet ready to accept Christ as I wanted to read the whole Bible and also had big questions like, Why does evil still exist in the world?
Shortly after that lunch, my future brother-in-law’s briefcase (containing many important documents) was stolen from the church parking lot. The congregation searched, but couldn’t find it. Hours later he got a call from another local church and it was found there fully intact. For me, that was a sign and it prompted me to accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior.
Since then, my career changed, I got married, had children, helped start a church plant, and eventually joined Ambassador Church. I have been constantly seeking God’s will and trying to honor Him with my whole life!
I grew up as the middle of three brothers in the small town of Benton, Arkansas. My childhood was mostly defined by playing with neighborhood kids, stumbling my way through a variety of team sports and attending the local Baptist Church. As a teenager I took greater interest in music at school, church, and—most importantly to me at that time—my friends’ punk band. This led me on a path to study worship music in college and eventually to be a worship director at an international church in Stuttgart, Germany.
After serving there for 3 years, I left to pursue further studies in theology, leading me Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada. During my time at Talbot, I started working in Biola’s department of Spiritual Development, overseeing worship teams in their chapel program. That eventually developed into the full-time position I now hold where I coach and mentor young worship leaders. Spiritual Formation has been very important to me and helped shape me in my journey as a disciple of Jesus.