Special Guests

(More To Be Announced)

Greg Opean

After getting saved his freshman year at UCSD in La Jolla, California in the early 1980's, Greg immediately moved in with 4 staff members of Campus Crusade for Christ. They challenged him to find his place in ministry, which he did soon after, at a local Calvary Chapel where he was taken under the wing of the pastor & assistant pastor.

At first Greg became a worship leader at a home-fellowship. Then he moved into a house by the beach with the Assistant Pastor named "Bear", and their house quickly turned into a "ministry house" where people gathered almost every day for prayer, worship, Bible study and surfing.

During this time, although attending the University, Greg realized that God was calling him to ministry. 25 years later, having served in worship, youth, and church planting, it seems that this has indeed been the call of God on his life.

Char Brodersen

Char Brodersen is a pastor/worship leader in Santa Rosa, Ca. He loves his wife and is passionate about Jesus Christ.

Steve Berger

Steve Berger is the founding Pastor of Grace Chapel. He has been a Senior Pastor for eightteen years having also founded Calvary Chapel Pomona Valley in Southern California. Steve is a gifted teacher of God's Word. He and his wife of twenty years, Sarah have four children.

Pete Nelson

Pete Nelson is the pastor of White Fields Community Church in Longmont, Colorado. As a pastor, musician (founding member of The Kry) and evangelist, Pete has taught God's Word and planted churches in Europe and Colorado. As an evangelist and teacher, Pete often speaks at conferences and retreats.

His ministry is driven by a vision to see every individual in the church mobilized into personal ministry - that every person will discover God's unique plan and purpose for their life. Pete and his wife Angie have three children: Isaac, Lauren, and Seth.

Zach Vestnys

Hanz Ives

Originally from Albuquerque, N.M., Hanz and his wife, Debbie, moved to Southern California to pursue his career in music. Through a series of God ordained circumstances, they came to know and have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Not long after that he dedicated his talents and abilities to the furtherance of God’s kingdom. In the time that followed, Hanz did session work, played in various worship bands and served as the head of the music ministry at Calvary Chapel of Pasadena before being asked in 1997 to join the staff of Harvest Christian Fellowship as the minister of music. Since 1999, Hanz has lead worship with the Harvest Crusade Band at various large scale evangelistic outreaches around the US and the world.

Hanz lives in Riverside, CA and has been married to Debbie for 23 years. They have two daughters, Elly and Mary. In his spare time Hanz likes to ride mountain bikes and play Wii with his family.

Phil Wickham

Phil Wickham is at his core a humble and sincere artist who writes songs and worships God using the medium of music. It is with that brush that he paints images of a loving and creative God across the canvases of listeners' hearts and minds. Although the evidence of this gift was apparent on Wickham's previous release as well as his self released independent record, it has never been clearer and more developed than on the twelve tracks off his sophomore Simple Records album Cannons.

For Wickham the desire he has for his albums and live show is always to lead people into worship. On Cannons he accomplishes this with a marked sonic shift and an added sense of urgency. Phil Wickham's songs connect. He asks the right questions and he gives voice and words to our response. The songs speak to the heart of our experience, our relationship with God.

Greg Fadness