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 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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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 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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.