OUR PASTOR

Bruce Goddard

At the age of eighteen, Pastor Goddard was led to the Lord by one of his teenage friends in the city park near his home. The young man gave him a King James Bible, and three days later, Pastor Goddard packed that Bible with his belongings and headed to college. After a year and a half of playing college basketball and reading his Bible, he came to the conclusion that learning the Bible and telling others what God was teaching him was more fulfilling and satisfying than his life-long dream of playing college basketball.

Two years after Pastor Goddard received Christ as his Saviour, he enrolled in Bible college to train for the ministry. Pastor Goddard had known Mrs. Goddard since the eighth grade and started dating her while she finished her senior year of high school. In 1981 (five years later) they were married. In July of 1982, they both graduated from Bible college, moved to southern California, knocked on the first door to start Faith Baptist Church, and held the first service that August.

 PASTORAL STAFF

  • Mike Valdez

    Pastor Valdez has ministered to our Spanish community for decades. He and his wife Linda are invaluable assets to our ministry.

  • Greg Beil

    Greg Beil is our Christian School Administrator. He and his wife Kathy have raised their 5 children at FBC. Two of them are missionaries and the other three are in full-time ministry.

  • Joshua Goddard

    Since 2008, Josh has been serving the youth department he attended when he was a teenager. He and his wife, Carly, have three children.

  • Matt Peterson

    Matt grew up at Faith Baptist Church and has worked as the children’s pastor since 2015. He and his wife, Esther are honored to give back to the church where they were raised.

  • Brett Beil

    Brett and his wife Jennifer served for five years as missionaries in Ghana, West Africa. In 2018, he began working with our Junior High department and in our church office.

  • Dave Matuzak

    Dave oversees our visitation, soul winning, ushers and rest home ministries. He also plans and organizes many of our mission trips around the world.

Church Staff

{From Left to Right}: Nathan Mowery, Jennifer Beil, Esther Peterson, Lynne Williams, Rachel McDowell, Tammy Goddard, Heather Young, Tim Grisson.

School Staff

{From Left to Right, Front Row}: Jennifer Beil, Chandra Grisson, Natasha Williams, Connie Marrujo, Amanda Lopez, Theresa Ryan, Terri Lewis. {Second Row}: Jeannie Pattison, Carly Goddard, Greg Beil, Kathy Beil, Emily Roe, Misty Payne. {*Not Pictured}: Our pastoral staff also teach Bible classes in the school.