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EBC Staff:

Francis Chan

Joshua Walker

Spencer MacCuish

Mark Beuving

Nicole Carstensen

Yvonne Wilber

Preston Sprinkle

Andre Makapagal

Kristen Azbell

Geoff Leatherman

Courtney Williamson

  Staff  
Francis Chan

Founder
Francis Chan
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M.Div., The Master’s Seminary
B.A., The Master’s College

Francis Chan is the founding pastor of Cornerstone Community Church (1994 to present) and author of Crazy Love and Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit. He is also featured in the BASIC video series. He travels throughout the world challenging Christians to a higher commitment to Christ. He is currently active with Children’s Hunger Fund, African Renewal Ministries, and World Impact.

Joshua Walker

President
Joshua Walker

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M.Div. The Master's Seminary
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, UCLA
B.S., Engineering, Caltech (California Institute of Technology)

Joshua Walker was a Mechanical Engineer working in the aerospace industry for eight years from 1995-2003. During that time he served at Rolling Hills Covenant Church in Rolling Hills, California in many leadership roles (deacon, elder, committee chairman, Bible instructor). With a passion to serve Christ more, he entered seminary in 2001 and began to pursue whatever ministry God intended for him. He is currently blessed to be serving as the President of Eternity Bible College.

Spencer MacCuish

Academic Dean
Spencer MacCuish
smaccuish@eternitybiblecollege.com
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M.Div., The Master's Seminary
M.A., English, The Master's College

Spencer MacCuish served on staff (summers) at Hume Lake Christian Camps from 1991-98. During that time (1995-99), he also worked in the public school system where he taught English / History and coached volleyball. While teaching, he also served in the College Ministry at Grace Baptist Church in Santa Clarita. In 1999, he left teaching to lead the High School Ministry at the same church. He shepherded this ministry for three years before coming to Cornerstone. He is currently serving as Academic Dean at Eternity Bible College.

  Mark Beuving

Dean of Students
Mark Beuving

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M.Div., The Master's Seminary
B.A., Speech Communication, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

While pursuing the American dream and a degree in Electrical Engineering, Mark's priorities shifted, and he began to care more about God and people than worldly success. Mark finished college with a degree in Speech Communication, and served as the College Director at First Baptist Church in San Luis Obispo until heading to Southern California to work with Eternity Bible College and finish his Master's of Divinity degree. Mark now lives in Simi Valley with his wife, Laura, and daughter, Abigail. He has a passion for pastoral ministry, and is committed to ministering the Word of God in the lives of students. He is currently serving as the Dean of Students.

  Nicole Carstensen

Director of Admissions and Student Life
Nicole Carstensen
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B.A., Christian Education, Biola University

Nicole Carstensen graduated college knowing that she wanted to be involved in full time ministry. She started that journey by working at Thousand Pines Christian Camp in Crestline, California as the Program Registrar. At Thousand Pines she met a Pastor from Cornerstone who asked her to consider applying to work at EBC. The rest is history and she began working at Eternity Bible College in the Spring of 2005. Since working at EBC she has developed a passion and love for serving the students at EBC and she can't picture herself doing anything else.

  Yvonne Wilber

Director of Student Resource Center
Yvonne Wilber

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M.L.S., (In Process) University of North Texas
B.A., Global Studies, Northwestern College
B.B.S., Eternity Bible College

Yvonne and her husband Tom moved to Simi Valley in 1998 after spending ten years serving in a church in Chatsworth, California. While raising their three children Yvonne also worked in the graphic design industry and served in the Women's ministry at Cornerstone. With the understanding that her life as a mom of small children was a temporary calling, she followed the prompting of God and enrolled as a student at EBC to become better equipped for his service. Yvonne is blessed to be able to work at EBC and in addition to working at the resource center spends time hanging out and mentoring students. Lord willing, Yvonne will be pursuing her Master's in Library and Information Science in 2010.

  Preston Sprinkle

Associate Professor
Dr. Preston Sprinkle

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Ph.D., New Testament, Aberdeen University
M.Div., The Master's Seminary
B.A., Biblical Studies, The Master's College

Preston and his wife Christine have three daughters and a son. Before joining the staff at Eternity Bible College, Preston taught in the department of Biblical Studies at Cedarville University for two years. In addition to his love for baseball, Preston and his family love the outdoors (hiking, camping, having fun in the sun) and hanging out with college students.

 

Andre Makapagal

Director of Distance Education
Andre Makapagal

Andre and his wife Laura have two children and a rabbit named Chuck. He is guiding EBC in the development and growth of their Distance Education program and anything else Joshua wants him to do! Prior to joining the EBC team, he served as the President/Founder of an online company in the restaurant industry. For the past 17 years, he has served as an Advertising and Marketing Executive in the Fortune 25 corporate environment. Besides his love for Jesus, he enjoys golf and hanging out at the beach with his family.

 

Kristen Azbell

Assistant Registrar
Kristen Azbell

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B.A., Educational Ministries, Seattle Pacific University
A.A., Education, Ventura College

Kristen began taking her Christian faith seriously when she experienced the Joshua Wilderness Institue at Hume Lake from 2001-2002.  When she came back from working two summers at Hume Lake she served in Junior High ministry at Pleasant Valley Christian Church in Camarillo.  She began attending Cornerstone in Fall 2004 after being involved with Axis for three years.  Since 2004 she has been serving in 5th and 6th grade ministry.  Her heart is to serve children globally and is excited to see what opportunities God is presenting.

 

 
 

 

Portland Campus Staff

Geoff Leatherman

Portland Extension Director
Geoff Leatherman

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M.Div., The Master’s Seminary
B.S., Biblical Studies and Youth Ministries, Philadelphia Biblical University

Geoff Leatherman served as a pastoral intern at First Baptist Church of Perkasie, Pa from 1996-2002. After serving there he an his wife, Stacy, moved to Southern California where he served as an associate pastor for 6 years at Cornerstone Church in Simi Valley, Ca. During this time he also served as the Dean of Administration for Eternity Bible College where he helped to legalize and create proper documentation for the college. Currently he is serving with his wife Stacy and daughter Isabella as a community leader at Colossae Church in Tigard, OR.

Courtney Williamson

Portland Extension Assistant Director
Courtney Williamson
cwilliamson@eternitybiblecollege.com
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M.A., Religion and Education Biola University/Talbot Graduate School of Theology
B.A., Christian Education The Master's College
Bible Cert., Capernwray Bible School, England

Courtney and her husband Chad are Northwest natives recently moving from Seattle to Portland, OR in 2008. Courtney taught high school at The Bear Creek School (Redmond, WA) and Westside Christian High School (Lake Oswego, OR) for the last 9 years. Beyond teaching she was also a part-time school adminstrator for 3 years. Chad and Courtney just welcomed home their first son, Tegegn in Feb. 2010.

 

 

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