Leadership Staff

Leadership Staff

Senior Pastor

Michael Garman

Pastor Mike was born in England and raised in Southern California. Raised by godly parents, Pastor Mike attended church every Sunday from the time he was a young child. He felt God’s call of salvation on his life at the age of nine. Upon graduating high school, he began attending bible college to learn more about the bible. It was at bible college that Pastor Mike’s passion for studying and teaching God’s Word came alive and he felt God’s call…
Director of Worship & Women’s Ministry

Shelanie Voorheis

Director of Worship – Director of Women’s Ministry Shelanie is a classically trained pianist and accomplished vocalist. She has been performing vocally and instrumentally since she was very young. She is thankful for the many opportunities given to her as a young girl to offer her musical gifts to the Lord during special music times at her church, as well as for the opportunities she has been given to perform for large audiences in her college and post-college days. Shelanie has…
Pastor of Student Ministry

Chris Esparza

Pastor of Student Ministry The Lord called Chris to salvation in 1994 during his junior year at UC Santa Barbara. After graduation, Christ led him into his first ministry as a high school pastor, where he discovered a passion to help students know Jesus in a profound way. He has had the privilege to reach students in other capacities as a teacher, pastor to youth and college students as well as a director of a pregnancy center education outreach to…