Office Administrative Assistant
Lisa Riley has served as our Office Administrative Assistant since 2008. Lisa provides a warm presence to our church office and our many guests. She also keeps our office running smoothly and provides administrative support to our ministers and shepherds.

Assistant Minister
Ron has served as our part-time Assistant Minister since January 2011. Ron's ministry includes adult spiritual formation, education, pastoral care, administration, and preaching. Ron’s originally from the South Bay (Carson) and earned a BS in Business Administration from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, a Master of Divinity from Pepperdine, and a PhD in New Testament and Early Christianity from the University of Notre Dame. Ron also serves as associate professor of religion at Pepperdine University in Malibu where he teaches and researches ancient Judaism and early to medieval Christianity. His first book, By the Same Word: Creation and Salvation in Hellenistic Judaism and Early Christianity (DeGruyter), was published in 2007. Ron and Shelly and their four boys, Paul, Sam, Joel and Eliot, have been members of our church family since 2006.