Ron has thirty-nine years of pastoral and executive experience. He served as a pastor in Alaska for 17 years and Columbus, Ohio for 18 years. Ron is a native Californian, growing up in the Bay Area. He served for Twenty-five years as a Marriage & Family Life Pastor. For 18 years he served in a church with 10,000 weekly attendees, which allowed him to gain extensive experience in helping couples prepare for marriage, enriching marriage, and reconciling crisis marriages. Ron’s service as the Alaska State Manager for Promise Keepers allowed him to support and encourage men in their roles as husband and father. He has developed curriculum for stepfamilies, marriage enrichment, and single parenting. Education: DMin, Asbury Theological Seminary, MDiv, The Kings Seminary. Books by Ron: The Journey to Oneness: Enriching, Renewing, and Reconciling Marriage Relationships. Parenting Your Children Into Adulthood: Forming Lifelong Friendships with Adult Children.      

Nancy began attending Creekside in 2012.  She joined staff in 2017 and has been in full time ministry since 2007.   She accepted Christ at the age of 13. Nancy was born and raised in Canada, lived in Toronto until 2006 and married her husband Cécil in 2004.  Her hobbies include traveling, singing, reading, watching classic movies on TCM and British dramas on PBS. Her favorite verse is:

• Psalm 116:7 – Return to your rest, my soul, for the Lord has been good to you. 

Michelle began attending Creekside in January 2016 and joined the staff in May 2018. She accepted Christ at the age of 13 at Summer Youth Camp and has served in part-time pastoral staff ministry positions since 1995. Michelle has been married to Earl for 21 years, and have six adult children in their blended family. She was born in Kansas City, Mo, raised in Northern California (Santa Rosa, Redwood City), Washington state (Kirkland), and Ontario, California. After she college moved to Chicago for three years, and moved back to Northern California area for most of her adult life. Michelle has many verses that have guided her life, but the two that she has claimed the longest in her life and ministry really come from:

· Hebrews 12:1-2 – Therefore, since we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and that so easily entangles, and let us run, with perseverance, the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith…

· Romans 12:10-12 – Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves. Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.

Earl began attending Creekside in 2016 and has been on staff since 2019. Having accepted Christ when he was 20, he began full-time ministry in 2008. He married Michelle in 2000, and they have six adult children in their blended family. Earl was born in Corpus Christi, Texas but grew up in the Houston, Texas area, although he has also lived in Sunnyvale, Dallas, and Virginia. Earl loves reading, traveling, and doing home improvements projects. His favorite verse is:

· 1 Peter 1:3-5 – Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.