Advisory Board
Rv. Jerry D. Dirmann
Senior Pastor
Raised in a Christian home, Jerry Dirmann received Christ as a child, but shortly after graduating high school, he began seek God daily and was changed through revelation of God’s Word.Since this transformation of his life, Jerry’s passion has been to see multitudes discipled through the power of the Word of God and the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
In April 2000, Jerry, and his wife Kimberly, founded The Rock in Anaheim, CA; which now has more than 4,000 regular attendees.
Jerry was a youth pastor for nine and a half years at Valley Community Church in El Monte, CA, and served as National Foursquare Youth Minister for six years; during which he traveled and spoke extensively across North America.
As National Youth Minister, Jerry founded and launched "Uturn", a contemporary youth ministry strategy used by many Foursquare churches across North America. Jerry is also author of "Operation: Solid Lives" (formerly Operation A.T.T.A.C.K.), an intense discipleship program, now used in a number of churches, and through which God has changed thousands of lives.
Jerry has been married to his best friend, Kimberly, for twenty-two years. They have two children, Alexa and Jonathan.
Larry Titus
Larry Titus now devotes himself full-time to the mission of Kingdom Global Ministries, a non-profit organization that he and his loving wife Devi founded in 1992. The purpose of KGM is to relationally mentor, resource, and release the vision of global leaders.
Larry's thirty–four years of senior pastoral leadership has developed congregations from small to large and from unhealthy to healthy. Because he comfortably crosses denominational and racial lines he has successfully established both interracial urban and suburban congregations. As a master communicator of the Word, Larry speaks to the "heart" of his audience.
The mentoring of men has been the strength of Larry's ministry. Many church leaders today were mentored by his discipleship. Authors have quoted him and men have followed him. Hundreds of prison inmates in Washington, California, Pennsylvania and even Europe have been influenced by his life and ministry. More than eighty men have lived in his home over his 39 years of marriage and he is known as "Dad" by hundreds.
Larry has a 3M passion: Mentoring, Ministers, and Missions. He impacts men's lives through retreats and conferences. Ministers frequently call him for encouragement and advice, and global missions' projects are funded because of his influence.
Larry's commitment to the Word, never wavering through deep trials, has produced fine churches, magazines, national and international ministries, but most importantly, a godly family. His wife Devi, and their adult children, Trina Titus Lozano and Dr. Aaron Titus are committed with him to live with integrity and to follow God's call wherever He leads.
Phil Jones
Senior Pastor
Phil Jones is a third generation Foursquare pastor.
Phil met his wife Donna at LIFE Bible College and they were married in 1978. After graduating in 1979, Phil became the senior pastor of the Sunland, California, Foursquare Church, then went on to senior pastor the Simi Valley Foursquare Church. During that time, Phil was active at the district level as the Southern California Youth Ministries Coordinator, Men’s Ministries Coordinator, and the Inland Valley Divisional Superintendent. He also was a member of the Camp Cedar Crest Board of Directors and the Life Bible College Alumni Committee.
In 1988, Phil and Donna moved to Northern California, where they established a retail home décor store, through which they planted The Gathering Place Christian Fellowship, Folsom’s Foursquare Church. Phil served the North Central California District of Foursquare churches as Supervisor from 2002 to 2009. Today he and Donna remain intentionally bi-vocational pastors, knowing their business keeps them in touch with the heart of the community, and The Gathering Place keeps their community in touch with the heartbeat of God.
Phil and Donna have three wonderful, grown children: their daughter, Amber, and her husband, Nathan; and their son, Brennan. They take great delight in enjoying their grandchildren, Reagan Sophia, Bennett Nathan, Emerson Philip, and Pierson Mark.
Dr. Ronald D. Williams
The Ron Williams family was appointed in 1969 as Foursquare missionaries to Hong Kong where Dr. Williams served as Supervisor of the Hong Kong and Macao Foursquare work from 1973 to 1985.
After serving for several years as a linguist with the U.S. Air Force, which responsibility necessitated a lengthy time of service in Asia, Dr. Williams returned to the United States to study at L.I.F.E. Bible College where he graduated in 1965. With his wife, Carole, and family, he ministered in Western Canada in such capacities as pioneer pastor, Bible college faculty and youth ministries.
Such varied experience proved valuable for the Williams, as their ministry in Hong Kong included supervision of churches and pastoral care; social concern ministries, such as a Christian high school of over 500 students; the Macao Foursquare Gospel Children's Home; and counseling care to the elderly, as well as outreach to the People's Republic of China in cooperation with other religious agencies.
Dr. Williams also served from 1979 to 1982 as Coordinator of the Asian Council of Foursquare Missions, also known as Eastern Council of Foursquare Churches, which seeks to further extend the Gospel of Jesus Christ into new areas of Asia as well as encourage cooperation among the Foursquare workers in the most populated continent on the world.
Ron and Carole returned to the States in 1985 to assume ministry at the headquarters of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel where Ron served as the Communications Officer and Editor of the Foursquare World ADVANCE magazine, which circulation exceeded 98,000 until November 1, 2002. From 1985 - 1995, he was an adjunct faculty at L.I.F.E. Bible College in the subjects of Theology and Missions. From June 1986 to November 1990, his nightly radio broadcast, "FOURSQUARE MISSIONS UPDATE," was heard from 9 to 9:15 p.m. on KFSG-fm in the Los Angeles area, as well as on KHIS-fm, serving the San Joaquin Valley from Bakersfield, California. From 1986 until February 2003, he hosted the radio program, AA Fresh Start,@ broadcast on KFSG-fm, in Los Angeles, and KTLW-fm, across the U.S. He served as Special Council to the President – ICFG until October 2004. From October 2004 until October 2007, Ron has served as the denomination’s historian and doctrinal consultant. In October 2007, he officially retired from that position, while continuing to serve as Teaching/Missions pastor at Family Life Center (Foursquare), in Wofford Heights, California.
November 1987 - May 2000, Dr. Williams served as an official member on the denomination's Board of Directors, and continued to serve as an advisor/consultant, to the Board until November 2002. He served on the Executive Board of the International Pentecostal Press Association and from May 1994 through September 1998, as its president. He has served on the Executive Committee of the North American Pentecostal Press Association since 1990, and from 1992 to 1994, as its president. In addition to the above, from October 1994-October 2005, Dr. Williams was the Office Manager or the Treasurer for the Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches of North America, Chairman of the Press Relations Committee for the Pentecostal World Conference, and was coordinator of the 19th Pentecostal World Conference, conducted in Los Angeles, California, May 29-31, 2001.
Because of his broad range of ministry, Ron was honored in 1989 by the American Christian Leadership Council for his Christian Leadership. He was included in the 1992/1993 edition of Who's Who in Religion for demonstrating outstanding achievement and contribution to the betterment of society. In 1995, he was also recognized in The International Directory of Distinguished Leadership and the fifth edition of Five Thousand Personalities of the World, as well as The American Biographical Institute’s Who’s Who of the Year 1995/1998. In the years following, he has received similar recognition by several organizations.
In May 1992, the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel conferred upon him the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Divinity.
In addition to his other responsibilities, Ron and Carole served as Senior Pastor of the Commission for Christ Foursquare Church (Chinese) in South El Monte, California (2002-2005). In October 2004, Ron and Carole moved to Bodfish, California where Carole passed away on December 19, 2006, following a lengthy illness. On September 1, 2007, Ron was married to Lorretta I Merritt, and the couple resides in the beautiful Kern River Valley. Ron and Lorretta continue to minister in churches throughout the area and across the nation.
