Pastor Grant Van Leuven accepted the call to the Puritan Reformed Presbyterian Church (PRPC) in June of 2010, and moved with his family from Pittsburgh to San Diego at the end of August to begin serving the saints here.  He was ordained and installed as pastor by the Session of the PRPC on November 5 of that year.

Pastor Van Leuven graduated with a Master of Divinity degree in 2010 from the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh, PA, where he also served for five years as the Director of Development and Communications.  Prior to working for the seminary, he was an account executive for a large Pittsburgh ad agency and for WORD-FM Radio (Salem Media), and he also served a number of nonprofit organizations in public relations and marketing including for the Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium.  He graduated summa cum laude from Buffalo State University with a bachelor’s degree in Public Communications and a minor in Writing.  A bi-vocational minister, Pastor Grant also works in FT “tent making” as Site Manager for the San Diego office of World Relief Southern California (a Christian organization empowering the local church to serve the most vulnerable, especially displaced refugees, asylees, and immigrants relocating to our area).

Pastor Van Leuven also is a contributing writer for the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals’ PlaceforTruth.org, MeetthePuritans.org, and reformation21.org e-magazines; he also previously served as assistant editor of MeethePuritans.org as well as the Alliance’s Community Engagement Coordinator.  For a listing of his articles and links to read them, click here and here.

Originally from Rochester, NY, Pastor Van Leuven lives in Chula Vista with his wife, Fernanda, and six of their eight covenant children: Rachel Lemmen (21, married), Olivia (19, attending Providence Christian College in Pasadena), Abraham (16), Isaac (11), Gabriel (6), Gideon (4), Giulianna (20 months), and Gaius (9 months).  He also enjoys songwriting, and his original music reflecting a Reformed Christian worldview can be downloaded for free at www.dumbsheep.org.

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Testimony of Saving Faith in Jesus    |     Philosophy of Ministry