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Brad Abley
Senior Pastor
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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...
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Larry Brundage
Local Outreach & Compassion Pastor
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Larry, a native to East San Jose, came to South Hills in 1997 via the “Mountain” college group. He took a job as a janitor in 1999 where he grew into various supervisory roles within the maintenance department. Recognizing a clear calling from God to move into the Via Monte community, Larry and Sheila Brundage picked up their home and began this new ministry. Since starting the Via Monte ministry, Larry and Sheila have had two children—Alexander and Aliana, and Larry has been officially ordained as a pastor of South Hills Community Church. Larry and Sheila continue to serve as leaders for the Via Monte ministry of South Hills Community Church. |
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Mike Champlin
Interim Director of Children’s Ministries
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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. |
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Daniel Goodin
Worship Pastor
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Daniel and his wife Stephanie have pastored at South Hills since March of 2006. They have recently added their first child, little Gianni, to the family in March of 2009. Both Daniel and Stephanie come from Missions backgrounds, he with Book of Hope and her with Youth with a Mission, also known as YWAM.
Through his honest, unbridled approach to praise and worship, Daniel has helped draw countless people to an intimate encounter with Christ. His purpose is to bring people of all ages and backgrounds into the loving embrace of Jesus, and to encourage them with a message of hope and faith. He loves to challenge people in devotion to God and personal evangelism and has a gift for communicating the Gospel in a clear and understandable way. Daniel Goodin is a singer/songwriter with a passion for reaching all generations of the world evangelistically through music and teaching. He has served as a Worship Pastor, a Missionary with Book of Hope International, and ministered with various artists, including Darrell Evans. He has opened for such bands as Steven Curtis Chapman, Audio Adrenaline, Skillet and
Plank Eye.
His Mission: “To capture the heart of God in worship and lead the body of believers at South Hills in worship of Jesus Christ, not only in the corporate worship service, but through exalting Christ with their life choices”. |
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Bob Grandey
Missions Director
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Bob has currently taken on the leadership of the Missions Program here at South Hills. Bob is a natural fit for this assignment as he is an acting member of the Missions Finance Committee and was the Elder Representative on the Missions Board for many years.
Bob’s desire and passion is to see people faithfully follow the Lord Jesus. Bob has been in leadership positions as an elder, small group leader, and has served on the Missions team for a number of years and has been on 4 missions trips.
Bob and his wife, Betsy, started attending South Hills in the early 1980’s. Bob has been married to Betsy for 42 years. They have a son and a daughter and both live in San Jose. Each of their children have 2 girls so they have 4 granddaughters ages 6 through 10. Bob has held positions in training and education in several high tech companies. He enjoys traveling, hiking and trying to play golf.
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