Our mission statement:
Elder, lead Pastor
Tim, the primary teaching pastor at Mercy Chapel, has a passion for preaching and church planting. After an undergraduate in biblical studies at Liberty University, Tim earned a masters at Dallas Theological Seminary, and was privileged to teach preaching and spiritual life courses at DTS while doing his doctoral work in preaching at Biola University. He has mobilized the launch of multiple churches in Southern California and Texas and longs to see Mercy become a church that plants churches. Tim has been married to Tonya for 25 years, and they live with their four sons in Newbury Park. Like all of Mercy’s elders, Tim is bi-vocational, and is a business affairs executive for CSSE's streaming services Redbox and Crackle Plus.
Elder, Executive Pastor (Remote)
William “Kirby” Bradford is Pastor Elder at Mercy Chapel. He has a passion for the Gospel, Global Missions, and his family. He earned a Masters in Christian Apologetics from Biola University. In addition to serving as Elder at Mercy Chapel, Kirby serves as a corporate executive and serves on several ministry boards. He has been married to Christina for 27 years and has four children.
Elder, Founding Pastor & Minister at Large
Rex and his wife Sherry started Mercy Chapel in the fall of 2015, after planting / re-planting four other churches in the Conejo Valley / Ventura County. Rex and Sherry have three children: John, Sarah, and Rebekah and five grandchildren: Madeline, Zoe, William, Sophe, and Liam. Rex attended seminary at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth, Texas. Following a one-year language study in France, Rex and Sherry moved to Lome, Togo in West Africa to work with students in planting churches. Though God called them back to the States after nearly two decades of fruitful ministry in Togo, they continued to have a heart to see the church in Togo grow and reproduce. In 2018 they began to make preparations for a new ministry called Le Ponte (“The Bridge”) to be a conduit of resources, training and encouragement between Western churches and Togo church planters, pastors and businessmen. Rex leads Le Ponte full time now, traveling to Togo to train church leaders and helping them build indigenous business and commerce streams that can resources local ministry efforts for the next generation.
