Brad Abley

Pastor Brad’s mission in life is to daily be with God and out of that relationship to be His blessing to everyone he comes into contact with.

He loves the Church and he has a shepherd’s heart to minister to God’s people. When it comes to God’s Word, he is very passionate about teaching and preaching with clarity, accuracy, humility and power. He believes God’s people deserve the best pastor possible and the best teaching, each week!

Brad grew up in Mtn. View and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from San Jose State University in 1983 and a Master of Divinity from Regent University in 1992.

He has pastored churches in Campbell, CA; San Jose, CA; Dale City, VA and Albany, NY and served for three years with the Christian Broadcasting Network as the chaplain to 400 of CBN’s Major Donors in the San Francisco/San Jose Bay Area and in Hawaii. More...

Mike Champlin

Mike and his wife, Michelle, have been attending South Hills now since 1993. During that time he has spent a number of years teaching in Sunday school and AWANA. Michelle served as an usher during those years and has spent a number years on the worship team. They have two teenage boys, Eric and Tyler. Eric serves on our media team and Tyler has been involved in Sunday School. They also have a 7 year old daughter, Kristen, who serves by helping her dad with AWANA set up. After moving to Almaden Valley, Mike and Michelle started attending South Hills. During that time, Mike worked as a software engineer, an engineering manager, and for the last few years has felt led to pursue a personal finance venture working from home. Mike also teaches part-time as a substitute teacher, coaches and umpires baseball, softball, soccer, and participates on the board of Almaden Little League by managing their web-site. There are just too many fun things to do in life and not enough time to do them all.