Grace Community Church of Visalia

With a pastor’s heart and a professor’s head, Jon came to Grace Community Church in 2000, bringing twenty-seven years of ministry experience in the church and the classroom. Before coming to Grace Community, Jon trained men and women for ministry at Western Seminary in Northern California where he was Associate Professor of New Testament Literature and Languages as well as Academic Dean. Earlier, Jon pastored twenty years in South San Francisco and Modesto in addition to teaching for a number of colleges and seminaries in California. Jon and his wife Shelley have been married since 1974 and they have two children, Jordan and Susanna. His education includes a B.A., Simpson College; M.Div., Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary; Ph.D., Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary.