I started attending PBC in 2006 and have enjoyed serving behind the scenes in various ways since then, especially serving food to large crowds! When I don’t have my hands full with my two young sons, I enjoy surfing, snowboarding, and traveling.

After growing up and attending college in New England, I moved to San Francisco and fell in love with Jesus.  A few years later I met my husband Ron, we moved down the Peninsula and started attending PBC in 2001.  I have been involved with Children's and Women's Ministry in the past, but right now my heart is in the High School Ministry where our children are.  I love being outside in God's creation hiking, biking or just enjoying the view.

I'm is passionate about serving the women of PBC, helping them connect and find community (especially new moms!). My husband, Jack Xu, and I also love coordinating the meals for our shelter ministries including Hotel De Zink and Heart & Home.

Enjoy visiting people at VA, senior centers, homes and hospitals.

Brian joined the staff in 2017 after spending 34 years as a Silicon Valley systems test engineer and a volunteer Audio Visual tech at PBC.

We serve in Foster care ministry (including Help One Child and PBC's foster parent support group), Young Life ministry, (both local in Palo Alto and Mountain View and international in Africa and Russia), New Creation Home Ministries (supporting single teenage moms in East Palo Alto) and The Kilgoris Project (Kenya mission field project focused on education, health care, and nutrition for the Masaai peoples) . We also support Hospitality, including short to medium term housing in the greater Palo Alto/South Bay area. Our housing hospitality has a special emphasis on families needing housing near Stanford Hospital while a family member is a patient at Stanford Hospital for a short to medium period of time.

I’m a software engineer at a storage company called Tintri (recently acquired by Data Direct Networks). My wife, Terri, is a director of a private preschool and kindergarten. We have 3 grown children. I'm a puzzle and game lover and my hobby is "gimmick car rallyes," which are public complex driving logic puzzle events. I am a Battalion leader, Boy Scouts-like group for Jr. High and High School boys; we run Pinewood Derby (making and racing little gravity-powered wooden cars).

Laura and I are active in our Community with a Bible Study group and I also am part of a Men's Group. I support IT at PBC when needed.

Originally from Chicago, I moved here in 2011 and have been at PBC ever since. I am a water resources engineer by trade and recently a new parent. My passions lie in empowering people to worship and grow more deeply with God, as well as building real communities that strive after Him. I have been/am involved in YAF, music ministry, and the shelter ministry.

Jay is an electrical engineer, and has attended PBC for 25 years. Pam and I have been foster parents and adoptive parents for 15 years and live just a few blocks from PBC. Jay is on the board of Help One Child and can help prospective and current foster parents navigate the rewarding and challenging adventure of foster and adoptive care.

I've been part of the PBC body for 25+ years, privileged to serve in a variety of ways particularly around passion for arts and tech for worship and operations.

Born and raised in Northern California, I met the Lord in High School and enjoyed volunteering as a Young Life leader for many years.  Worked as a nurse and spent one year in Mexico as a missionary nurse, later on taught drama and love to hike in God's creation and do almost anything with my hands, baking, knitting, sewing, especially when I can do it to bless others.

I came to the Bay Area for college and have noticed many ways that the area has changed over the decades. I'm always trying to think of ways of applying our faith to the daily culture of our area. I'm currently active in worship ministry and leadership of the Deacons.

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I help lead a connect group of young adults in Palo Alto and support and engage in women's ministry. I'm passionate about caring for people.

We serve in Foster care ministry (including Help One Child and PBC's foster parent support group), Young Life ministry, (both local in Palo Alto and Mountain View and international in Africa and Russia), New Creation Home Ministries (supporting single teenage moms in East Palo Alto) and The Kilgoris Project (Kenya mission field project focused on education, health care, and nutrition for the Masaai peoples) . We also support Hospitality, including short to medium term housing in the greater Palo Alto/South Bay area. Our housing hospitality has a special emphasis on families needing housing near Stanford Hospital while a family member is a patient at Stanford Hospital for a short to medium period of time.

Wesley, my husband, and I are very active in the Senior Community, with a heart for our 'silver saints' - we visit, assist and support them in many ways including through the "In Touch" Ministry.

Have a connect group we support, make visitation a priority.

Our girls grew up far from our hometown of NYC, so we've considered PBC as family since 2004. I organize church-wide events like Thanksgiving, Passover and Harvest Fest, and love affirming for people that they are His beloved and there is joy in a purpose-driven life. I serve on PBC's Executive Committee and support families of children with disabilities and special needs. Women's discipleship groups transformed my understanding of the truth and power in the Bible, and through PBC Children's Ministry I grew to trust in God's plans and not my own.

I help plan and participate in Blessing Days and help with the Women's Retreat.  I also am part of an active Community Group.

I’m a California native and have been attending PBC since the age of 6. I love welcoming people through our doors on Sunday mornings and seeing both new and familiar faces. My favorite vacations include warm weather and lots of scuba diving.

Support the Fall Retreat, large church initiatives and connect groups.

Enjoy making Sunday mornings 'hospitable' with my family - we help prepare food and make coffee for the congregation.

Passion: family life, community, worship

Currently called to advocate for the unhoused and those who are at risk. Passionate about gardening and about teaching others (in word and in deed) how to eat in a way that honors God.

I've been part of the PBC community since 1976 moving here from Southern California. I am passionate about discovering life as God intends it for us by studying scripture and applying it to daily life. I've been serving with children and teaching all ages since I turned my life's control over to God in 1968.

My passion is solving problems and helping others grow.  I love to jump into something messy and complicated and find a way to bring order to it.  I find I get lots of opportunity to do that when working with children, so that is where I have been serving.  I love meeting new people, learning things from each other, and just doing life together.

Support Middle School.  Invited to sit in on Elders closed session meetings to provide input.

Enjoy making people feel welcome and fed - support Sunday Hospitality and the Engage class. Also, run a connect group.

I've been attending PBC since 1980.  I presently support audio/visual for the Equip class and Praxis class when needed.  On occasion I help with A/V upgrades.  Otherwise, I help out with various service needs.

Supporting missions at PBC as well as helping out with the Fall Retreat, Camp PBC, Harvest Fest and other large events.

My wife Christine and I have been in the bay area since 1990 and attending PBC just as long.  Our family has been blessed through the teaching at PBC, and the people we have met here.  I enjoy serving at PBC with the Sunday morning teams and men's ministry.  In my spare time I enjoy traveling, running, hiking, and fishing in the Sierras.

I enjoy cooking and help out with making meals for new mom's and other meal requests when I can.

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I coordinate our church partnership with International Justice Mission and lead a connect group of young adults in Palo Alto.

Julie, my wife, and I are very active in the Senior Community, with a heart for our 'silver saints' - we visit, assist and support them in many ways including through the "In Touch" Ministry.