I have been blessed to Partner with local Leaders from the majority world to develop business models for innovative ministries that bring sustainable, locally funded change in some of the poorest villages and communities in the world.  This brings together for me a life time time of experience and education.  Having a group of active and retired business executives who meet regularly with these leaders in a bible study and have poured their years of knowledge into them with strategic questions and insights has also been an amazing resource and blessing.

Since 2007 I have been blessed to meet, work with, and visit the home countries of established leaders from all over the developing world and learn from them about their passions and vision to see their communities transformed. I have visited nineteen countries and have friends from many more.  Each time we travel we come to learn.

I grew up in a multicultural community in Northern California that was diverse economically and ethnically, my friends were from India, Greece, Italy, Eastern Europe, Central America, and African Americans.  New Immigrants joined our schools on a regular basis.

I studied Economics and Religious studies at Westmont College, I graduated from Westmont College with a degree in Religious Studies with an emphasis in Missions. After working in the Finance Industry and Silicon Valley, I went on to complete a Masters of Divinity degree at Fuller Seminary.

I have served as the pastor in two churches in the past twenty four years, where we strategized and implemented unique visions to impact our changing communities. In the Community Church of Granger Indiana we led hundreds of people from young families and youth to know and serve Jesus Christ and then commissioned them to serve in al the places God called them through their careers.  At Arcadia Community Church we saw God lead to make an established church Multi-ethnic with more than twenty languages represented in the English service and partnered to start ten language specific churches. Those churches went on to plant twenty eight more churches around the globe, from Australia and Canada to Syria and the Middle East.

Through our work with Established leaders continuing their Education at International Theological Seminary In Los Angeles, we have been educated and become active participants in Locally Funded Community transformation using a business model that attaches a local Board that over sees the ministries and business ventures that are founded to support them.

 I have served on the board of International Theological Seminary since 2013 and was recently elected as the chair of the Board of Trustees.

The goal of 'Transforming Poverty' is to take what we ha e learned and assist other churches and mission groups and emerging business leaders to make sustainable change through strategic short term capital seed investment in communities and mission work around the world.  We are praying for one thousand villages to be sustainably transformed in the next five years, that will then go on to transform another community.

The practice of western aid and supplemental ongoing payments has created unwanted negative affects on local economies and ministries causing them to limit their vision and fostering practices that deplete local economies and leadership structures.

God has placed in each community the people who can change that community they are the future servant leaders whose Vision and success as; doctors, teachers, nurses, lawyers and Government leaders is waiting to be released, through education and economic empowerment as followers of Jesus Christ.

I am the proud father of four children, two sons finishing High School, a daughter who recently graduated from Biola and another daughter studying at USC.