Pastor Armando Hernandez

Pastor Armando Hernandez grew up in Pico Rivera, California.  At the age of 21 Jesus radically changed his life.   He attended church at Calvary Chapel Downey, but it wasn't until attending Calvary Chapel La Mirada that he finally quit fighting God to enter the ministry.  He attended the Bible Ministry college and thereafter served as Associate Pastor, overseeing the Married Couples Ministry,  Men's Ministry and the Senior's Ministry.

In 2007, after much prayer, he stepped out in faith to start a ministry in Buena Park and God has miraculously raised many to come along side and support Pastor Armando. Armando and his wife Esther have been married for 34 years and have three sons and seven grandchildren.

Pastor Armando's favorite scripture is:

"For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence. But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God? and righteousness and sanctification and redemption? that, as it is written, He who glories, let him glory in the Lord."

Pastor Jay Gaither

Pastor Jay was born in Bellflower and raised in Anaheim, California.  He is a truly down-to-earth believer committed to seeking and serving Jesus Christ without reserve.   He lived a rebellious and destructive life of drug and alcohol abuse for dozens of years before surrendering his life to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior in 1995.   Following his conversion, he had an unquenchable hunger and thirst for more and more knowledge of God, and an understanding of scripture and theology.  He enrolled in the Calvary Chapel Bible Ministry School in 1997 and received his Certificate in Practical Ministry in 2001.   Pastor Jay loves to study and teach the Bible, worship the Lord and participate in outreach ministries.   He served at Calvary Chapel of La Mirada for several years before stepping out to help with the Calvary Fellowship church plant in Buena Park.  He met his lovely wife Marianne in 1978 and they were married in 1979.  Their Children are Jeremy and Jennifer, and they have one grandson, Jeffrey.

Vince and Linda Ray (high School Ministry)