Randy Bloom, director

CMM director and resource team member Randy Bloom was born in Pennsylvania. His father was in the Air Force, so he spent his youth in numerous locations, including Great Britain. He attended Ambassador College in Big Sandy, Texas, where he met his wife, Debbie. They graduated in 1975 and were sent to Atlanta, Georgia, where he was employed as a WCG (now GCI) ministerial trainee.

After the denomination had a major layoff in 1976, Randy sold residential construction materials for eight years with Huttig Sash and Door Co. He also started a specialty millwork sales business. He was ordained as an elder in 1976 and served for a number of years as a youth minister.

In 1984, Randy was re-employed by GCI as an assistant pastor in Atlanta. In 1989 he was sent to pastor in Somerset, KY. Over the next thirteen years Randy also served as senior pastor in Syracuse and Utica, NY and Memphis, TN.

Randy earned a master of arts in religion and master of divinity degrees from Liberty University, and a Doctor of Biblical Leadership and Ministry from Trinity College of the Bible and Theological Seminary.

In 1999, Randy began serving as superintendent for the GCI Central district. Over the last several years he led the church planting resource team. This team developed processes and programs for training and supporting church planters.

Randy now serves as the director of GCI Church Multiplication Ministries (CMM). CMM develops training programs and support resources for church planters. Randy is also a ministry developer for GCI Ministry Development and a certified Sonlife Ministries trainer for church health seminars.

Randy's wife Debbie is employed as a logistics analyst manager by S/G Industries. The Blooms reside in Memphis and have two children: Lisa (who is married to Chris Higgins), and Ryan.

CMM resource team member Glen Weber was born in Wyoming where he grew up on a farm. Glen attended Ambassador College in England.  Upon graduation in 1973, he trained with several pastors before being invited to minister in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.  A few months later in March 1974, Glen and his wife, Connie, moved to Castlegar, British Columbia and planted a church out of the Kelowna congregation.  From 1978 to 1986, they were lead pastor in Prince George, BC, followed by seven years in Regina (and Moosomin), Saskatchewan and two years in Red Deer, (and Wetaskiwin) Alberta.

During the major doctrinal changes in the denomination, Glen and Connie were asked to move back to the US to pastor Spokane, WA and Coeur d’Alene, ID.  After eleven years serving eastern Washington and North Idaho, they moved in 2005 to Vancouver, WA (Portland, OR area) to pastor both congregations.  Expecting to remain in the Vancouver area until retirement, they were surprised when the Lord’s lead took them to Pasadena, CA where they currently live. 

Currently they are the lead pastor of New Hope Christian Fellowship which serves the Pasadena, Altadena and NE Los Angeles areas of Southern California.  Glen is also the District Pastoral Leader for southern Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico.

In the 1997 Glen helped found a ministry called Mission Spokane, an organization that brought together over two hundred congregations in the Spokane County to help transform the community.  A major focus of the ministry was to promote church planting as one of the quickest ways to evangelize the unchurched and stir the church to revival.

Besides serving CMM, Glen is also part of the SW District Church Planting Network. This network consists of Glen and three other District Pastoral Leaders (DPL) from the Southern California area. They are networking their districts' congregations to start new churches.  Currently they have several types of church plants in the process, including doing the paperwork and fundraising to bring a missionary couple from the Philippines to reach the large Filipino community in NE Los Angeles.  One of the DPL’s is also being supported as he plants a second Hispanic campus also in NE Los Angeles.

Glen and Connie have two adult sons, Dennis (Carolyn) who live in Orange County, CA; and Paul (Katie) who live Edmonton, AB with Glen and Connie’s two grandchildren (Mollie and Anderson).

CMM resource team member Becky Deuel was born in Eugene, Oregon, attended Ambassador College in Pasadena, CA, and graduated in January 1978 with a BS in Business Administration.  After graduation, Becky moved to the Chattanooga, TN area, got married and raised three children.

In October, 1993, their family moved to Two Rivers, WI.  Shortly thereafter, Becky started working at Point Beach Nuclear Plant, where she has worked in a variety of positions, including administrative support in Engineering, a non-licensed operator, in the Training Department providing safety, orientation and leadership development instruction.  She is currently working as a Human Resources Consultant, specializing in leadership development training, talent assessment and succession planning. 

In January, 2002, Becky became a member of the pastoral team serving Grace Christian Fellowship, the WCG congregation in Appleton, WI. She was ordained in April 2007. 

Becky participates on the chaplain team at to of GCI's camps: Northern Light SEP in Minnesota and Heartland SEP in Illinois. She is taking classes through Grace Communion Seminary and is a certified GCI ministry coach.

She is secretary for the Fox Cities Evangelical Ministerial Fellowship and is currently on the leadership team for the local Convoy of Hope. She also plays flute in the Two Rivers Municipal Band in the summer.

Becky and her husband, Steve, live in Manitowoc, WI.  Steve is retired after working for nearly 25 years for Unisys Corp. Their four children are grown and live in Minnesota, California, and Wisconsin.

Lorenzo Arroyo

CMM resource team member Lorenzo Arroyo was born in Washington, D.C., and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in his teens. He graduated from San Jose State University with a bachelor of arts degree in psychology in 1973.

Lorenzo's first career (1974-1981) was that of an adult probation officer with Santa Clara County. He met and married his wife, Rita, in 1977. Shortly thereafter, they both joined a Sabbatarian religious organization. In 1981, Arroyo was commissioned by that organization to attend their ministerial school in Denver, Colorado. He was ordained in 1982 and became a full-time pastor for the congregation in San Jose.

In 1988, Lorenzo and Rita went to Cuernavaca, Mexico, where they did missionary work for two years. Lorenzo taught theology at a ministerial college, and Rita taught English. Afterward, they returned and took on another pastorate in Southern California for a brief period, before returning to Denver in 1993. Lorenzo was commissioned to teach at the same ministerial school where he had attended more than a decade earlier. While serving as an instructor at the school, Lorenzo met Joseph Tkach, GCI president, who visited the school in 1994. Lorenzo also did three years of part-time graduate work at Denver Conservative Baptist Seminary in historical and theological studies.

In 1996, Lorenzo and several colleagues began a new religious organization targeting Spanish-speaking communities in the United States. This was also a time of painful transition from legalism to a grace-based gospel. Lorenzo continued contact with Tkach, who led him and his pastors to realize the similar journeys of both organizations. This played a significant role in the merger and addition of 11 Spanish-language churches in 2003 to GCI.

Lorenzo now works as a GCI regional pastoral leader and ministry developer. His primary emphasis is working with Spanish-language churches scattered across the United States, including a church in the Chicago area that also conducts services in English.

Lorenzo and his wife Rita have a son, Lorenzo Paul. They have lived and ministered in California, Denver, Mexico and Texas and now reside in Northern California. Lorenzo's philosophy of ministry is: “The proclamation of a grace-based gospel must be at the center of all we say and do.”

CMM resource team member Ken Williams was born in Bell, California and lived in the Los Angeles area until joining the Navy at age 18. In 1970, he graduated with a bachelor degree in theology from Ambassador College in Big Sandy, TX. Following graduation he entered the employed ministry of the Worldwide Church of God (WCG) and was ordained an elder the next year.

Ken served first in pastoral ministry in Duluth and Grand Rapids, MN. There he met his future wife, Nancy Strommen. They married in 1972 and had their first child, David, in 1973. In 1973, the young family moved to pastor the WCG congregation in Kalamazoo, MI. Their second child, Heather, was born in Benton Harbor in 1975. While in Michigan, Ken started a church in Coldwater, MI and began post graduate studies in communications at Western Michigan University.

In 1982, the family moved to pastor WCG churches in Concord, NH and Montpelier, VT. Their third child, Michael, was born in Concord in 1982. In 1989, the family moved to pastor WCG churches in Rochester and Syracuse, NY. While in New York, Ken began also serving as a WCG district superintendent. He continued his post graduate studies at Roberts Wesleyan College.

In 2004, Ken and Nancy moved to Sacramento, CA where Ken served first as a WCG district superintendent, then regional superintendent. In 2007, they returned to Rochester, NY - the home of their daughter Heather and their three gandsons.

Ken continues serving as a WCG (now GCI) regional superintendent and serves as a ministry developer. He recently completed his post graduate classes in the master's degree program at Grace Communion Seminary. Ken holds several ministry certifications. He is certified by the Evangelical Free Church of America as a trainer of assessors who work with church planting candidates. He is also certified by GCI as a ministry coach and trainer of ministry coaches. He is also certified by ifeWay as a Transformational Church consultant.

Ken's philosophy of ministry and life is to trust Jesus, accept responsibility for decisions, and participate with the Holy Spirit in being of maximum service to our Father and his children.