Please help us welcome our new pastor and family to the First Baptist Church of Big Bear Valley.  Michael is a mountain guy who grew up skiing the local area.  He’s celebrating his 10th year of marriage to wife Julie and is a proud daddy to two girls, Brooklyn (6) and Haylie (4).  He has a Bachelors degree in Business from Cal State San Bernardino and a Masters degree in Theology from Talbot Seminary at Biola University.  Michael spent the early part of his career in the arenas of business, marketing/sales, and management.  For the past 10 years, he has combined his professional experience with his pastoral gifts to serve in full-time ministry at both Forest Home and Thousand Pines Christian Camps.  He has also simultaneously served as a leader and lay Pastor at North Point Christian Fellowship in San Bernardino since he came to know Christ 12 years ago.

Michael is known for his direct, yet humorous preaching style and his unapologetic love for Christ.,  You may contact Pastor Michael at his email: michael@bigbearbaptist.org

Pastor Luke comes to us all the way from Omaha, NE with a few stops along the way. After growing up in Omaha, Luke moved to Chicago where he attended Moody Bible Institute, earning a bachelor's in Youth Ministry and Bible. While in Chicago he also joined the youth staff of The Moody Church, where he ministered as a part of the youth staff from 2003 to 2007. Luke then began work on a Master's of Divinty at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School but sensed God leading him in a new direction--one that carried him all the way to sunny California and accepted the call to be the High School Pastor at Sunrise Church in Rialto until coming up to join our team here at First Baptist. 

While not exactly a mountain man (he is known for his love of wearing his rainbow sandals and shorts whenever he gets the chance), he has come to enjoy the tightknit community of Big Bear inspite of the 3 feet of snow that fell the month after he moved here. And while that snow puts a damper on his love affair with flip flops, it hasn't been able to get away of his love of discipling students and pointing them to   Jesus.  You may contact Pastor Luke at his email: luke@bigbearyouth.com

'Pastor Bud' as he is affectionately known to us, accepted the Lord as Savior in 1947. He married Diana in June of 1951, as is the father of three sons, grandfather of seven and great-grandfather to seven! Some say he is a GREAT grandfather period!

Bud has over 40 years of ministry experience; working with youths, singles and adults. One of Bud's greatest joys is "Ministering to people and bringing them to a place of understanding of God and His Word. You may contact Pastor Bud at his email: buddiana@charter.net

We're very excited to announce the newest pastoral team member at First Baptist: Pastor Nick Greenwood! Pastor Nick will be joining our team at the end of May and comes to us from San Clemente, CA. He will be a full time pastoral team member and responsible for expanding the reach of our church into the community as well as the music programs of the church. Stay tuned for more details about his role as we welcome him, his wife, Emily, and their two boys, Jackson and Cooper, to the First Baptist faith family.