Meet Our Pastor

JESUS CHRIST is our Senior Pastor, Lead Pastor, and the Head of our church.

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Pastor Ray was born in Flushing, New York and then moved to Philadelphia for the remainder of his youth. He eventually moved to Northern Cal to obtain his B.A. in Anthropology at UC Berkeley. It was during his sophomore year in college while attending a Baptist church that he gave his life to Jesus Christ.

Soon after his conversion, he received a calling from God to one day become a full-time minister, which the Lord tested him for many years to make sure he was discerning correctly.

Ray married his wife, Jackie, and they moved to Japan in 2000 for three and a half years to serve as missionaries at a new church plant. He then moved to Los Angeles with his wife and newborn son in 2004 and obtained his Masters in Divinity degree (2006) at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena.

On February 6, 2011, he was ordained as pastor with a heart to establish a church in southern California. On November 11, 2012, Hill Community Church was founded as a new church plant. Ray now lives in Torrance, California with his wife Jackie and three sons – Timothy, Jeremiah and Elijah.