We are launching 4 churches on Sunday, March 6th!
There are 3 ways you can join us on our mission :
- Pray for the pastors who are launching.
- Pastor Frank Audia- CityReach Church Westmoreland
- Pastor Bruce Folwell- CityReach Church Las Vegas
- Pastor Damon Johnson- CityReach Church Santa Rosa Beach
- Pastor John Alarid- CityReach Church Springfield
- Give to one of the churches.
- Go and support the churches on their launch day.
Take a few minutes to learn more about our Spring, 2016 planters below.
CityReach Church Westmoreland
Pastor Frank Audia was born in El Salvador and moved to concord California at the age of eleven. His father is Italian and his mother is both French and Palestinian. He did not have the luxury of growing up with in the context of a Christian home or community. Drugs, alcohol and parties were part of his daily life until he encountered the living Christ in a supernatural life transforming conversion experience. He was immediately snatched out of a life of sin that would have eventually lead to death.
After answering a divine call to ministry Pastor Frank enrolled at North Central University in Minneapolis MN. He graduated with a B.S. in Pastoral studies and a minor in Biblical History. He has over twenty years of youth ministry experience and is now the Lead Pastor of City Reach Church in Jeannette PA. He and his wife Amber, along with their four children (Emma, Avari, Francesca and Elijah) desire to display a fresh expression of the love and power of God in the city of Jeannette and the surrounding regions through the birth of this new church.
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CityReach Church Las Vegas
Pastor Bruce is the pastor of CityReach Las Vegas. He is married to his wife, Ana, and has two amazing children. Bruce and his wife, Ana, met in Las Vegas where they lived out of control for many years. However, through his cousin and an employee, Bruce gave his life to Christ. Bruce and Ana went to a church, where they were accepted, loved and eventually baptized. Now they are passionate about serving God and sharing his love with others.
This passion that they have, sparked the vision from God to answer His call and plant a church. In 2013, they planted a church in Columbus, Ohio. However, Bruce felt the call to go back to Las Vegas and plant another church in 2016.
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CityReach Church Santa Rosa Beach
Pastor Damon and his wife, Darenda are excited about the God opportunities in this area. Pastor Damon knows God has called him to plant a church that will be more than just a place of worship, but a place that will meet the needs of the community. It’s taken prayer, diligent planning, faith and hard work, but through it all, CityReach Church of Santa Rosa Beach has been created to serve and reach out to the community which God has placed him and his family in.
Pastor Damon & Darenda Johnson have been in full-time ministry since he graduated from college in 1999. They were honored to serve as Youth Pastors for 9 years at The Harbor @ Holley in Navarre, FL. They also served as Youth Pastors at Pace Assembly in Pace, FL before taking the role of Associate/Youth Pastors in Rocky Mount, NC at Church on the Rise, a multi-site church. It was in Rocky Mount, NC that Pastor Damon answered the call of God to plant Crosswalk Church in Fort Walton Beach, FL. After serving as Lead Pastor at Crosswalk Church for 4 years, the partnership of Crosswalk Church and CityReach Network came to be.
Pastor Damon received his Associate of Arts in Pastoral Ministries and his Certificate of Business from Brownsville School of Ministry in Pensacola, Florida and is a Licensed Minister with the Assemblies of God.
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CityReach Church Springfield
Pastor John comes from a background of affiliation with Chicano gangs and a Mexican cartel. He spent well over a decade as a drug dealer and hopeless heroin addict. After hitting rock bottom several times, he finally surrendered his life to Christ on a cement floor in a lonely prison cell at the New Mexico Department of Corrections. After the Lord encountered Pastor John in prison, he was voted in as inmate pastor.
John went through the Christ-centered Victory Outreach recovery home in Phoenix, AZ and the Urban Training Center in downtown Los Angeles, California. God not only gave John eternal life but also set him free from addiction and restored his mind. This man, who was once incoherent, graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Theology and Church Leadership from Central Bible College, Summa Cum Laude. He is several credits away from completing a Master’s Degree at the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary. He has served as Berean faculty at Global University, lead pastor, recovery home director, missionary/ church planter in Manila the Philippines, and prison evangelist. He is an endorsed correctional chaplain and Prison Fellowship Area Manager who continues to go back into prisons and jails with a message of Hope.
John and Hannah Alarid met at Central Bible College in 2011. They were married on December 25, 2013. John is from Albuquerque, New Mexico and Hannah was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Hannah graduated the Long Island Teen Challenge program in 2007 and served as staff at the women’s facility. After working in the Behavior Health field for several years, Hannah decided to go back to Evangel University to complete her Bachelors in Worship Leadership. During the past four years in Springfield, John and Hannah began to feel a passion to reach north Springfield with the love of Jesus.
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