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Our Mission

The CGN Connect team exists to help our expanding family of churches experience gospel-centered community and care. We are an intentional relational team that wants to support you so that you are connected to God, one another, and the CGN family. Our local and regional connectors engage, encourage, and empower Calvary Chapel, and other evangelical pastors and ministry leaders, to help develop emotionally and spiritually healthy leaders. Our goal is to help you feel connected to supportive community and CGN resources that can help you fulfill your calling.

About CGN

We are a family of churches working together to proclaim the Gospel, make disciples, and plant churches.

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In-Person Gatherings

Our Local Connector Team members will host in-person gatherings at least twice a year. The gatherings generally include breakfast or lunch and provide time to share a meal, forge relationships, and encourage one another. This is also an opportunity to share resources to help our family be equipped and empowered to be emotionally and spiritually healthy leaders.

Online Gatherings

Online cohorts exist for pastors and leaders who are unable to meet in person, or want to connect, collaborate, and care for one another online as well as in person. These gatherings encourage and edify participants to advance the gospel.

Local Connector Communication

Our Local Connectors will text, call, or email those they support bi-monthly. They will also respond to your communication within 48-72 hours. Local Connectors are available to answer your questions about CGN and assist you in joining our expanding global family.

Local Connectors

Brian Brodersen

Orange County

Brian Brodersen is the pastor of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa. He also serves as president of the Calvary Global Network, chancellor of Calvary Chapel Bible College, and co-founder and director of Creation Fest UK. Brian is the featured speaker on the Back to Basics radio program and co-host of the live call-in program Pastors’ Perspective. Brian holds an M.A. in Ministry and Leadership from Wheaton College.

Tommy Cota

Orange County

Tommy Cota is the lead pastor of Hope Alive Church. In Tommy’s young teenage years, the life he was living led him into darkness and ultimately 5 1/2 years of prison time in the California state prison system. It was during this time that his wife, Diana, began praying for him, and soon after his release in January of 2000 he surrendered his life to Jesus Christ. Tommy was so excited to live his life for the Lord that he enrolled in Calvary Chapel’s School of Ministry, and after graduating in 2004 he was brought on staff as an assistant pastor at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa.

Bruce Zachary

Ventura + Los Angeles Counties

Bruce Zachary was raised in a Jewish home and has been a follower of Jesus for more than 30 years. Bruce was an attorney for 25 years and has been an ordained pastor since 1995. In 1996, he planted Calvary Nexus, a Calvary Chapel church in Camarillo, California, where he continues serving as teaching and leader development pastor. Bruce has authored 18 books and directed a global church planting initiative in the Calvary Chapel movement. In addition, Bruce serves in a leadership role within the Calvary Global Network as a member of the CGN Executive Team and as leader of the Connect Team.

Jimmy Orate

San Bernadino County

Jim Orate is the pastor and founder of Calvary Chapel Rancho Cucamonga. Jim's first assignment in ministry was to teach third grade Sunday School, then high school kids, then a home Bible study, which blossomed into Calvary Chapel Rancho Cucamonga.

Phil Metzger

San Diego County

Phil Metzger is the lead pastor of Calvary San Diego in Chula Vista, and Joy leads the women’s ministry. Phil is a graduate of Veritas International University (M.A. in Theology/Theological Studies) and Western Seminary (Ph.D. in Intercultural Education). His podcast, “Crossing Cultures,” is dedicated to helping people connect to those who live, think, and believe differently than they do. Phil is also the co-author of “A Story of Grace: Beyond the Iron Curtain."

Trevor O'Keefe

San Diego County

Trevor O’Keefe is the lead pastor of Olive Branch Christian Fellowship, having served in pastoral ministry for over 16 years in San Diego County prior to this position. In addition, Trevor serves as the Chaplain for the City of Poway’s Fire Department.

A. Clay Worrell

San Diego County

A. Clay Worrell is the pastor of Community and Mission at Olive Branch Christian Fellowship in Poway, California. Clay’s previous pastoral and leadership roles include planting and pastoring Calvary Waterford in Waterford City, Ireland; pastoring Calvary Tri Valley in Pleasanton, California; and serving as Executive Director of Calvary Global Network. Clay is a graduate of Calvary Chapel Bible College.

Mark Foreman

San Diego County

Mark Foreman is Pastor Emeritus for Teaching and Mentoring at North Coast Calvary Chapel.

Ted Leavenworth

Riverside & San Diego County

Ted Leavenworth is the Senior Pastor of Reliance Church in Temecula, California. He has been in Christian service for over 30 years and holds a Master’s degree in Applied Biblical Leadership from Western Theological Seminary.

Pastor Ted has a heart for church planting – leading two church plants in Southern California and facilitating the establishment of many others both nationally and internationally. Ted serves as a Director on several church boards and on the executive team of Calvary Global Network focusing on leadership coaching and pastoral mentoring. He also co-hosts The Leadership Collective Podcast, exploring the “nuts & bolts” of church leadership.

Brian Bell

Riverside County

Brian Bell is the senior pastor at Calvary Murrieta. Brian’s passion to bring Jesus to the nations has led him to over thirty countries and is now focused on two specific unreached people groups. Brian and his wife Kelly have worked fervently this past decade to bring justice for women and children who have been exploited in human trafficking, enabling them to have a meaningful impact within the Murrieta area, California, and across the globe.

Ed Compean

Central Coast California

Ed Compean is the lead pastor at Shoreline Calvary in Morro Bay, California. Previously he served as a church planter and trainer of church planters in Nairobi, Kenya and in the process helped establish several churches in Kenya and Tanzania. Returning from the field, Ed served with Shepherd’s Staff Mission Facilitators helping churches send their missionaries well. His passion is to see the fame of Jesus spread in His local church.

Seth Allingham

Northern California

Seth Allingham is an assistant pastor at Calvary Chapel Rohnert Park in Rohnert Park, California. Seth also serves on the Board of Directors for Calvary Global Network.

Conor Berry

Northern California

Conor Berry is the lead pastor of Calvary Chapel Santa Maria and has been serving Jesus for 20 years in missions work, church planting, and pastoral ministry. His heart is towards the encouragement of pastors who desire spiritual and emotional health through the ministry of the Holy Spirit - strengthening weak hands and making firm feeble knees (Isaiah 35:3) Conor is married to Hannah and together they have four children. When Conor isn’t at CCSM he is either honing bushcraft skills or searching for the perfect coffee shop.

Derek Neider

Nevada

Pastor Derek currently serves as the Lead Pastor of Awaken Las Vegas. He gave his life to Christ in 1992 at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa while attending UC Irvine. His desire to serve God full-time led him to attend Calvary Chapel Bible College where he also served on staff upon graduating. It was during this time that he met his wife, Rachel. They went on to plant a church in Bedford, New Hampshire, and served there for six years. In 2007, they were called by God to move to Las Vegas with their three children.

Tim Warholic

Nevada

Timothy Warholic is the lead pastor of Paradise Calvary Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada. A graduate of Calvary Chapel Bible College Europe, Timothy returned to Las Vegas in 2014 and began a home Bible study. That fellowship grew into Paradise Calvary Chapel, a congregation that eagerly sends outreach teams across the globe several times a year.

Alan Stoddard

Southwest US

Alan Stoddard is the lead pastor of Imagine Church in Granbury, Texas, having previously pastored churches elsewhere in Texas and New Mexico. Alan graduated from Southwestern Seminary in Ft. Worth, Texas, and Gordon-Conwell Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts. His doctoral work at Gordon-Conwell was on “Reinforcing Expository Preaching with Sermon-based Small Groups.”

Terry Michaels

Southwest US

Terry Michaels is the lead pastor of Forest Ridge Calvary Chapel in Round Rock, Texas, a suburb of Austin. Originally working in communications in California, Terry sensed his true calling was ministry. By 2009, Terry was the lead pastor at Calvary Chapel Austin in Pflugerville. When the church moved to Round Rock in 2024, they took on the name Forest Ridge Calvary Chapel.

Nick Cady

Central West US

Nick Cady is the lead pastor of White Fields Community Church in Longmont, Colorado. Within CGN, Nick is lead for the Cultivate Initiative, a member of the Expositors Collective team, host of the CGN Mission & Methods podcast, and member of the Executive Team.

Jeremy Einem

Michigan

Jeremy Einem is the pastor of Community Life and Assimilation at Calvary Nexus in Camarillo, California. Prior to joining Calvary Nexus, Jeremy was a pastor and Next Generation leader at a church in Michigan.

Mike Harrison

Missouri US

Mike is the Senior Pastor of Parkland Chapel. Before planting Parkland Chapel in 2005, Mike was a youth pastor at Maranatha Chapel in San Diego, California. In 2018 he earned his Masters in Applied Theology at Multnomah University in Portland, Oregon. When not studying the Bible, Mike can be found fishing and wishing he could eat more Twinkies.

Josh Turansky

Maryland, East Coast US

Josh Turansky founded Haven City Church in Baltimore, Maryland in 2017 and currently serves as lead pastor. Prior to that, he was an assistant pastor at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa. In addition, Josh has held leadership roles at Calvary Chapel Bible College, Kauai Bible College, and Calvary Chapel University.

Jered Murphy

Northeast US

Jered Murphy is the lead pastor of Calvary Chapel Naugatuck in Connecticut, a church he planted in October 2010. A Connecticut native, Jered graduated from Central Connecticut State University with a degree in mathematics.

Jimmy Schuarte

Northeast US

Jimmy Schuarte is the lead pastor of Roots NYC, a church he planted after returning from pastoring a church and directing a Bible college in Spain. Jimmy is pursuing a masters degree from Western Seminary.

Joe Paskewich

Northeast US

Andrew Hirschman

Pacific Northwest

Andrew Hirschman is the lead pastor of Calvary Ballard in Seattle, Washington and served for 16+ years as the assistant pastor of Calvary Fellowship in Mountlake Terrace, Washington.

Wayne Taylor

Pacific Northwest

Wayne Taylor is the founding pastor of Calvary Fellowship Seattle, where he was the lead pastor for 41 years. (It’s now called Mountlake Church.) Over time, God used the church to help plant over 50 churches, about half locally and half globally. Recently, Wayne transitioned to the roles of itinerant Bible teacher and support missionary to many global Calvary churches.

Riley Taylor

Pacific Northwest

Riley Taylor is the lead pastor of Mountlake Church located in Mountlake Terrace, Washington, which is in the Pacific Northwest.

Ty Orr

Pacific Northwest

Ty Orr is the senior pastor of Watersprings Church in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Kyle Mitchell

US Heartland

Kyle Mitchell is the lead pastor of cityWON Church in Leavenworth, Kansas.

Jeff Gipe

US: Southeast

Jeff Gipe is the Leader of Local and Global Outreach at Fellowship Bible Church in Brentwood, Tennessee. His prior pastoral roles include founding pastor of Newport Coast Lighthouse Church, a Calvary Chapel in Newport Beach, California, where he served for 15 years. In addition to serving in Brentwood, Jeff is a member of the CGN Executive Team.

Kyle Curry

US: Southeast

Kyle Curry is the lead and founding pastor of The Table Fellowship, having served as a youth and young adults pastor and operations pastor for several years.

Neil Spencer

Northwest Florida

Neil Spencer is the lead pastor Coastline Calvary Chapel in Gulf Breeze, Florida.

Billy Almaguer

Northeast Florida

Billy Almaguer is the lead pastor of Awaken City Church in St. Augustine, Florida, having planted the church in 2015 after being on staff at Calvary Chapel Port St. Lucie and Southbrook Church since 2007. The vision for planting Awaken City Church came to Billy in 2012 and was more of a call to go and make disciples. The actual planting came about with the full support of Southbrook Church, the church where he was then serving.

Daniel Williams

Southeast Florida

Daniel Williams has a heart for encouraging and equipping church leaders through his Leadership Lessons Podcast and ministry at www.eeleaders.com. Daniel currently serves as the Lead Pastor of Calvary Chapel of the Palm Beaches in Southeast Florida with his wife, Laura, and their two teenage children.

Brian Kelly

West Central Florida

Brian Kelly is the lead pastor at WestChurch, a church he planted in Bradenton, Florida. For the past twenty plus years, he has been involved in church planting and mission work in East Africa, New Zealand, and the United States. Brian has a passion for planting churches and has hands-on experience seeing churches grow from the ground up. He is also a member of the CGN Executive Team.

Cody King

West Central Florida

Cody King is a pastor and church planter, having participated in the founding and pastorate of both Redemption Calvary in Commerce City, Colorado and Reliance Church in Temecula, California. Cody is a graduate of Calvary Chapel Bible College and is passionate about developing healthy followers of Jesus through biblical literacy and obedience.

Mike Wiggins

South Florida

Mike grew up in the Tampa Bay area. At the age of 17, he placed his faith in Jesus Christ and entered into a relationship with Him. Over the years, he continued to grow spiritually, as he spent time in the Word and prayer and served the Lord in various evangelical churches.
In 1989, he married Stacy, whom he considers to be his best friend. They love doing life and ministry together!
In 2001, Mike began serving full time as an Associate Pastor at Calvary Jupiter in south Florida. In 2004, with his pastor’s blessing, Mike and Stacy launched out in faith to plant a Calvary Chapel on the Treasure Coast of Florida. For many years, the Lord has been building and blessing, “Calvary Port Saint Lucie”. Mike is thankful to be serving alongside a great team of leaders and leading such a healthy, vibrant church family. Stacy currently serves at Calvary Christian Academy, which is a ministry of Calvary PSL. She is part of the Executive Team and directs the Excel Department at CCA. The Lord has blessed Mike and Stacy with three wonderful daughters and sons-in-law and nine amazing grandchildren! He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Biblical Studies, a Master’s Degree in Christian Counseling, and a Master’s Degree in Theological Studies. His passion in life is to help people of all ages become lifelong followers of Christ. In his downtime, he enjoys spending time with Stacy, hanging out with his “kids” and grandkids, staying in shape, and following the Tampa Bay Bucs and Tampa Bay Rays.

Matt Misiano

South Florida

Rod Thompson

Philippines & US Heartland

Rod Thompson has been the assistant pastor at Reliance Church in Temecula, California, for many years, overseeing missions, leadership development, and the newly formed Calvary International Training Institute (CITI). Rod has served across the globe and in a myriad of capacities, i.e., church plants in Hungary, Serbia and Austria; director of the Calvary Chapel Conference Center in Murrieta, California; and campus pastor at the Calvary Chapel Bible College in Montebelluna, Italy.

Cody Nunes

Scotland

Cody Nunes served as the co-lead pastor of Calvary Denver Downtown; the youth pastor of Calvary Chapel Morris Hills in New Jersey and Calvary Chapel Celje, Slovenia; and the sound, lightening, and video engineer at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa before moving to Scotland to plant a church. Cody is a graduate of Calvary Chapel Bible College.

Dan Loaiza

Scotland

Dan Loaiza is the senior pastor of Calvary Fellowship Stirling, located in Stirling, Scotland.

Jed Gourley

Asia

Jed Gourley is lead pastor of Calvary Chapel Tbilisi in Georgia. He is also an instructor at Calvary Chapel Bible College Eurasia, also in Georgia. Jed as been involved in foreign missions for over two decades, with a focus on pastoral and teaching roles.

Mike Dente

France

Mike Dente is the senior pastor at Calvary Chapel Paris located in Paris, France. He received a Master of Theology from Faculté Jean Calvin in Aix-en-Provence, France and is continuing his studies as a doctoral student (D.Min.) at Western Seminary.

James Travis

Middle East

James Travis is the pastor of Saar Fellowship in Bahrain, a place where James and his family have roots dating back to the 1960s. James is Calvary Chapel University's first M.Div. graduate.

Brad Hall

Australia

Brad Hall is the senior pastor of One Love Church in Beacon Hill, Australia, a church he planted in 2010. Prior to that, Brad planted a church in Maui, Hawaii in 1998, where he served as senior pastor for 12 years.

Mike Neglia

Ireland

Mike Neglia is the lead pastor at Calvary Cork located in Cork, Ireland and the Expositors Collective lead.

Dr. Juventine Emuku

East Africa

Dr. Juventine Emuku is the senior pastor of Soroti Calvary Chapel in Uganda, having moved to Soroti after founding and pastoring Calvary Chapel of Midigo for 13 years. Juventine is a Bible teacher and church planter who currently oversees 20 Bible-teaching churches.

Zeddie Muzungu

East Africa

Zeddie Muzungu is senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Kampala and Director of Calvary Chapel Bible College-Uganda, serving in both since 2013. Zeddie's main call is to train leaders/pastors and build healthy families.

Dave Sylvester

England / UK

Dave Sylvester is the pastor of Calvary Chapel York in York, England. Dave is also the director of Calvary Chapel Bible College York.

Bryce Heard

England, UK

Bryce Heard founded Calvary Mansfield in 2001. Bryce grew up in Iowa, USA and his wife Bethany is from Mansfield. They met in Austria on the campus of Calvary Chapel Bible College. They have been married for 23 years and have four grown daughters.

Simon Lawrenson

England, UK

Simon Lawrenson started Calvary Southampton in 2004 and has been involved in leading ever since. Simon is responsible for vision and preaching, leading the leadership team to ensure our church is well cared for and organised. Simon and his wife, Lorrie, have four daughters and two grandsons.

Rafael Manzanares

Europe / Spain

Rafael Manzanares is the lead pastor of Santa Ponsa Community Church located on the island of Mallorca, Spain. Prior to taking over the pastorate of SPCC in 2002 and opening a Calvary Chapel-affiliated Bible College in 2005, he served with Brian Brodersen in London. Rafael is now working on a long-standing vision of opening a Christian school on the island.

Laszlo Nemeth

Europe / Hungary

Stan Marinussen

Europe / Netherlands

Stan Marinussen is pastor of Calvary Chapel Haarlemmermeer in Holland, a church he planted in 2007. His vision to establish a base from which men are raised to plant Calvary Chapels in the Netherlands has become a reality, as evidenced by the establishment of Calvary Chapel Flevoland. Stan also endeavors to maintain a connection with Calvary Chapels throughout Europe.

Manolo Matos

South America / Peru

Manola Matos is the lead pastor of Calvary Chapel Lima, located in Lima, Peru.

John Bonner

Peru

John is the founder, director, and international representative of Calvary Chapel Bible College Peru.

Ricardo "Kaka" Monteiro

Brazil, South America

Richard Cimino

Brazil

Richard Cimino is the Director of Worship and Men's Ministry Pastor at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa in California. Prior to this, he spent eight years as the High School Pastor at CCCM and thirteen years as lead and teaching pastor at CC Grass Valley (Crossroads Community Church). Richard then started a Bible study in Roseville, as an outreach of CC Grass Valley, which became what is now Metro Calvary.

Kike Torres

Mexico

Kike Torres is the lead pastor at Horizonte Queretaro as well as the founder and president of the Biblical Counseling Coalition, both in Mexico.

Marlon Brown

West Canada

Marlon Brown is the lead pastor of Awake Vancouver in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Sebastien Frappier

East Canada

Sebastien Frappier is the pastor of Calvary Chapel Montreal Regeneration in Montreal, Canada.

Arpad Horvat-Kavai

Hungary

Árpád served as the pastor of Calvary Chapel Pécs, Hungary between January 2000 and April 2007 while teaching at Calvary Chapel Bible College Europe. In 2007 God called Árpád and Andrea to serve at Calvary Chapel Bible College Europe full-time, first in Vajta, and then in Budapest. As of August 2019, Árpád is the senior pastor of Golgota 11, a Calvary Chapel church plant in the 11th district of Budapest, an Assistant Professor at the Pentecostal Theological Seminary in Budapest, and a counselor at a pastoral counseling center.