Jon Thompson grew up in Sebastopol, California. His father served on staff at an American Missionary Fellowship church. In 1985, the Thompson family joined the staff of Harvest Evangelism and moved to Argentina. “City reaching” was a new term in the church then, and Argentina was shaping its meaning. Jon came to Redding from Santa Rosa in 1991 to attend Simpson College. He was soon asked to lead the youth and worship ministries at the new church plant, Trinity Alliance. He graduated from Simpson in 1996 with a B.A. in Youth Ministry and was ordained by the Christian and Missionary Alliance in 2000. He went part time at Trinity in 2004 in order to lead the Redding Transformation movement. Jon married his Argentine sweetheart, Natalia, in 1992 and God has blessed them with four children. Besides being a dad, he loves to make disciples, snowboard, play soccer and play music.

Rick Caldwell Sr. grew up in Whittier, California. After graduating from high school, he moved rapidly up the corporate ladder of a home improvement center. He was involved in Eastern religions and the drug culture before asking Jesus to forgive him and take over his life. He soon started two years of what is now Shasta Bible College then became the Director of Lassen Pines Christian Conference Grounds. He has served as youth pastor for two churches, has been on staff with Youth with a Mission, and started the School of Discipleship at Little Country Church, where he and his wife now attend and teach ministry preparation classes. Rick has been the Executive Director of Youth for Christ Shasta Region since 2000 and is Secretary of the Redding Transformation Board of Directors. Rick has five children, three grandchildren, and enjoys cooking, landscaping and traveling.

Kenn Malrose grew up in the Bay Area and attended San Jose State College studying music and business administration. His industry background started in electronics when Silicon Valley was just taking shape and includes management roles in Lockheed Martin, Kaiser Aerospace, LAM Research and Atari. Kenn and his wife, Mary, have fostered, adopted and raised six children. They relocated to the Shingletown area in 1990 where Kenn came to know the Lord in 1994. They recently moved to Redding where Kenn serves as Worship Pastor at Word of Life Church. He is currently employed with Datawise, Inc, as Development Manager. Kenn’s burden is for the business community and marketplace transformation. After being closely involved with Redding Transformation from the beginning, Kenn is now serving on the board of directors. In his spare time Kenn enjoys family time, biking, boating, skiing, music and photography.

Karen Shuster grew up in Seattle and moved to Redding in 1989. She graduated from college with a B.S. in biology in 1976, the same year she asked Jesus to be her Lord and Savior. In 1978 she went to Anchorage to attend Bible school, then to Eureka in 1981 where she earned a life science teaching credential at Humboldt State. She has worked as a teacher in a Christian school and for public school programs, as church secretary and as executive secretary for a local non-profit agency, and is currently Administrative Assistant for Redding Transformation. She has been married for 20 years and has two wonderful sons whom she has home-schooled for 9 years. Her family has attended Trinity Alliance Church since 1994. She enjoys sailing, cross-country skiing, cake decorating and learning most anything.

Eric Hess was born and raised in Long Beach where he was raised in the church and accepted Christ when he was three years old. He graduated from Vanguard University 1991 with a degree in Biblical Studies. For the next six years he served as a youth/music pastor in Sonoma County while also working part-time as a substitute teacher. Eric moved to Redding in 1998 and attended Bethel School of Ministry in 2000 while also working as a financial planner/insurance agent. He married Sadie, who is still his best friend, in 2001 and in 2005 joined her full time at COMPASS Home Care which they currently co-own with another couple. Although working with Sadie is so much fun that it is like play, when Eric has free time, he enjoys spending it wit