Chad Amico is our Missions Pastor, and a coordinator at the Ventura Campus.

One time, when we were prepping our teams for missions, and the excitement of running around a new city was overwhelming the team, Chad exclaimed with a Piper-esque fervor,

“This ain’t no cappuccino prayer tour! Learn to suffer!”

We’ve been suffering on the mission field ever since (Except for S.F. and London, where part of the mission is to infiltrate coffee shops and be hip).

Chad is the great dichotomy of our staff meeting…

• He is often the one with brilliant suggestions for maintaining the ebb and flow of various church functions, and is a voice of wisdom and experience in nearly every possible field of ministry, not limited to, but including pastoring our international sending team, to offering wise council in the lives of others (like us) on a regular basis.
• Yet he unashamedly remains unscathed by Facebook, Twitter, blogs, mp3 players, and if you ask him if he got in someone’s grill, he will reply, “What’s a grill?”

Of course, he is a fast learner, and is constantly picking up on the current lingo of the times, and at such a rapid pace, he would have hipsters weeping and gnashing. In fact, he learns so quickly that he sometimes takes things overboard, but in a way that makes us truly love having him on staff with us. He fits in well.

(For some of his uses of modern day slang, click here)