After happily attending the church since October of 2021, Elizabeth joined Crossroads staff in October of 2024 as the Children’s Pastor! She earned her BA in Sociology at University of California, Santa Cruz and is currently in pursuit of her MA in Pastoral Care at Hope International University. During her undergrad, she became a follower of Jesus. Through her involvement in a college campus ministry, she discovered her passion in loving and serving people well. She has previous ministry experience working with children and college students.

Elizabeth believes each individual is valuable of extreme worth. Through Sunday mornings and involvement in the children’s lives, she hopes each child will believe that they are unique, beautiful, loved, and incredibly precious.

During Elizabeth’s free time, she loves going on dates with her husband, Paul, and taking her two beautiful dogs, Kyrie and Mango, on adventures. She loves creating art, reading, watching documentaries, and cooking Korean cuisine.

A Fun Fact about Elizabeth is that she is scuba certified! .

Kyle was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California, where he started attending church as a youth group student in his freshmen year of High School at a church in Huntington Beach. It was there he would meet Pastor Evan and Kyle would gain a desire to be involved with church and help out whenever needed. In 2016 Kyle attended Hope International University where he would study Biblical Studies and Church Ministry, also in 2016 he started as an intern for a church as a youth leader. He would eventually start attending and volunteering for Crossroads in late 2017 and Crossroads has been his home ever since! He would join the staff in November 2023.

When Kyle was a newborn, he was born with a condition called Ventricular Septal Defect, to summarize it was a hole in his heart and was not expected to make it, his Mom started praying and started calling other churches asking them to pray. The moment they brought his mom in to say her goodbye, Kyle showed miraculous improvement, and the next X-Ray showed that his heart was fully healed! Kyle has since lived a healthy life and thanks the Lord every day! Growing up Kyle’s youth group experience was very important to him, it provided him with a safe and fun experience around him. He believes that it helped him nurture his relationship with the Lord. Kyle had grown up going to church in his child years but did not feel a connection with the Lord until High School while attending Youth Group it was then he realized that the lord had been with him his whole life and that he just needed a little nudge to help him see that, and he wants to help provide that little nudge to others around him especially students. Kyle now has a heart for serving and helping others realize their potential in gaining a relationship with the Lord!

Outside of ministry Kyle enjoys playing and watching Baseball and Basketball, he is an avid fan of the Lakers and Angels. He also really enjoys watching movies, going to theme parks, museums, hanging out with family and friends, and reading about, watching, or looking at history, he takes a huge interest in learning about any different historical item or even the most obscure or random history knowledge and if he does not know it you have piqued his interest, and he will look it up..

A fun fact about Kyle is that he can do impressions of certain TV/Movie characters.