Rick graduated from The Master’s University with a degree in Christian education and from The Master’s Seminary with an M.Div. degree. For six years, Rick served in an outreach ministry of Grace Church to the homeless in L.A., and then served in the Sunday School ministry for six years. Since 2002, he has been privileged to pastor Special Ministries, a ministry for the mentally and physically disabled people of the church. Rick also serves in the Pastoral Care Ministry, and is blessed to have his wife, Janelle, to serve alongside him in these ministries.

Tom has been a lay elder since March, 2010. He serves in Anchored with Bill Shannon, Carl Hargrove, George Crawford, and George Sanders, and in Special Ministries with Rick McLean. Tom is also involved with Grace Advance and serves as a member of the Elders Counsel Handling Advance (ECHA). He and his wife, Stacy, have been married for thirty-three years. They were saved more than twenty-eight years ago, and have been at Grace Community Church since that time. God used Pastor MacArthur’s unwavering proclamation of God’s truth on the radio to bring the Lemans to salvation.