Through more than twenty years of ministry involvement with Calvary Chapel, John Bonner has served as a missionary, pastor, author and director of a crisis pregnancy center. John began attending "Big Calvary" in the late 70's and soon applied to Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa's language school in Alamos, Sonora, Mexico. Since then, he has served in several Latin American nations, including: Costa Rica, Honduras, Peru, Colombia, Chile and Mexico. John worked closely with Mike MacIntosh at Horizon Christian Fellowship in Mexico City. After nearly ten years in Latin America, the Lord led John and his family back to the United States to be an assistant pastor at Calvary Chapel of the Verde Valley in Cottonwood, Arizona. A considerable part of his ministry assignment was to oversee the church's House of Ruth Crisis Pregnancy Center. In 1996, he graduated from Calvary Chapel Bible College and began serving at Calvary Chapel's beautiful Conference Center in Twin Peaks, California. It was at that time that John published his first book, The Daily Discipleship Journal, and began speaking on the importance of personal devotions at over 100 churches throughout the United States. Sent out by Calvary Chapel of Lake Arrowhead in 1999, the Bonners are presently directing an extension campus of the Bible College in Lima, Peru. Serving together with John are his wife of 15 years: Pilar, and their three children: Michelle (13), Jason (11) and Joshua (9). You can meet the Bonner family by visiting their website at:
www.calvarychapel.com/lakearrowhead/bonner.html