Brenton Brown
→ brentonbrown.com
Brenton grew up in Cape Town, South Africa, studied in Oxford, England, and now lives in Malibu, California. Brenton first came to the attention of the wider church, as one of the young worship leaders on the first Vineyard UK recordings, Come now is the time and Hungry.
He has written the songs All Who are Thirsty, Everlasting God, Our God Saves, plus many more. After studying at Oxford University, He began leading worship for the local vineyard in Oxford and in 2005 moved to California to lead worship at a church in Malibu. Since then he has travelled across the States and beyond leading worship in churches as far afield as Sweden and Korea. 2008 saw the arrival of a baby daughter named Bella, and Brenton's second solo project, 'Because of Your Love'. Brenton has been blessed enough to have his songs recorded by Chris Tomlin and Lincoln Brewster as well as many more.
Zach Vestnys
→ steadfastministry.org
In February of 2001 Pastor Zach came on staff full time as the Youth Pastor at Calvary Chapel Petaluma. He faithfully served in that position until January of 2004, when he was asked to be the Senior Pastor of Calvary Chapel Petaluma. The Lord opened that door, and has been graciously blessing Zach’s service in the ministry.
Zach was raised in a Christian home and prayed to receive Jesus as his Savior on Easter Sunday when he was 5 years old. He was baptized at the age of six, at Applegate Christian Fellowship, in Oregon. The Lord again worked in Zach’s life during the summer before his freshman year of high school, wherein he rededicated his life to serving the Lord, and focused his time to become more involved with the ministry at Applegate Christian Fellowship. From that point on he was sure of the Lord’s calling on his life to be serving in the ministry.
John Randall
→ ccsanjuancapistrano.com
John Randall was born in Southern California and was raised going to Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa. Upon graduating high school, he came on staff at CC Costa Mesa, where he met his wife Michelle. After serving as Senior Pastor at Calvary Chapel Brandon Florida, John and his family recently moved back to the Southern California to pastor Calvary Chapel San Juan Capistrano as well as teach at the School of Worship. John lives in San Clemente with his wife Michelle and their 4 children.
Evan Wickham
→ evanwickham.com
Worship leader. Artist. Seldom have the two labels blended as seamlessly as in the music and message of multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter Evan Wickham. His debut album, Mysterious Things, released in 2006, is a tour-de-force collection of intimate worship, heartfelt expressions of joy and wonder at God's blessing, and a celebration of the redemptive power of salvation in Jesus Christ.
Evan is an ordained minister who serves as a Worship Pastor at Horizon Christian Fellowship in San Diego, CA, while also ministering in music and speaking at churches, retreats, and conferences worldwide. Evan and his wife Sandy lead worship with the kind of closely intertwined vocal harmony that can only come through years of ministry together with Evan fronting the band on guitar and keyboards. Evan and Sandy reside in the surf community of Oceanside in North San Diego County, CA, with their two boys Gavin and Jadon.
Scott Cunningham
→ scottcunninghammusic.com
Pastor Scott has been involved in various aspects of ministry from a young age. He attended Calvary Chapel Bible College and later became a youth pastor/assistant pastor at Calvary Chapel Vista with Pastor Brian Brodersen. Scott currently serves as an assistant pastor and is one of the worship leaders at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa. Scott also serves as director of the School of Worship, a one-year course designed to encourage and disciple students who believe that God is calling them to the worship ministry.
In addition to serving at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, the Lord has also opened doors for Scott to record a few worship projects as well as lead worship both nationally and internationally at various Calvary Chapel fellowships and worship conferences. He released his debut worship album in November 2005 and his followup album, "Til The Whole World Hears", in August 2008. Scott lives in Costa Mesa with his beautiful wife Megan and their 5 daughters, Madison, Rileigh, Emmaline, Sabella, and Analise.
Michael Smith
→ thesngroup.net
Michael grew up in Florida with an interesting mix - his dad was a Baptist (from Florida) and his mom was a Buddhist (from Thailand). He graduated from Florida State University in 1994 where he earned a degree in Biology and became a Christian. After college, Michael taught High School ecology and was blessed also to lead his mom in a Bible study through the book of John. She became a Christian shortly thereafter, and he then moved to Europe for 5 years to work as a model. While there, he started several small Bible studies with those in fashion and anyone else who wanted to learn more about Jesus. Michael met his wife, Kristyn, in London. After being married, they moved to California in 2000 where he worked as the youth pastor at Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa.
In 2005, he sensed that God had done all He wanted with them in the High School realm, and He opened a door in Santa Rosa. Michael took over a four month old church that was in an unexpected transition with their founding pastor. While serving there, Michael also developed a real heart to reach college aged students and so earned his Master's degree in Biology with the aim of teaching science at the college level along side of pastoring. After almost four years of serving in Sonoma County, God made it clear that he is to begin a new work in Southern California. Currently he is teaching science at Vanguard University and Azusa Pacific University, and teaching the Saturday night study at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa.