Staff Members

Michael Lantz, Pastor

Pastor Michael Lantz is the senior pastor of Living Truth Christian Fellowship in Corona, California. He studied Christian apologetics at Simon Greenleaf University and Trinity Graduate School. Michael has been teaching the Bible for 20 years. He enjoys life with his wife Brenda and three sons.

Email: pastor@livingtruthcorona.org

Mel Campbell, Assistant Pastor

Pastor Mel Campbell serves as one of our Assistant Pastors and has been teaching high school for 20 years as well as college level. He holds ABA and MA degrees in Physics. Mel is married to wife, Patricia and they have three children.

Email: meldcam@yahoo.com

John Nipper, Assistant Pastor

Pastor John Nipper comes to us with a background in addictions.  He completed alcohol drug studies at San Bernardino Valley College in 1996 and is certified through the Breining Institute as a Registered Addiction Specialist.  John has been working with men and women who struggle with the addictions of life for 16 years.  John was ordained in August 2001 as a Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and now serves as our Pastor of Evangelism/Outreach.  John is married to Dian and they reside in Mira Loma.

Email: jcnip1@aol.com

Kris Van Hook, Assistant Pastor

Pastor Kris Van Hook serves as our pastor over Pastoral Care.  He has been a High School teacher and coach for over thirty years and is currently teaching Physical Education and Health at Garden Grove High School.  He helped establish Calvary Chapel High School and served as assistant principal there for six years.  His background includes serving in several other Calvary Chapel church ministries and he also served formerly as a youth pastor and an assistant pastor.  He is married to wife Shawn and has three grown children and eight grandchildren.

Email: coachkvh@gmail.com

Brian Richards, College and Youth Pastor

Pastor Brian Richards serves as our College and Youth Pastor at Living Truth.  He has a Bachelor's Degree in Biblical Studies from Calvary Chapel Bible College and is working on his Masters Degree at Veritas Evangelical Seminary.  Brian has been involved in overseas missions, evangelism, and Bible teaching for over seven years.  He is married to wife, Brittney and has two children, Luke and Abigail.

Email: brian@livingtruthcorona.org

Mike Rizzi, Elder Chairman

Mike Rizzi has worked at Boeing for the last 23 years.  He holds a B A in Business Administration and a Law Degree.  Mike is married to wife, Claudia and has three children and two grandchildren with another on the way.

Email: mikefaithwalker@gmail.com

Scott Arnold, Elder

Scott is a principal planner for the County of Riverside responsible for public counter operations and current planning land use development in the south county area.  He has a B S in Urban & Regional Planning from Cal Poly Pomona and is currently working on MPA at Cal Baptist University.  Scott is married to wife, Cherry with three grown children and eight grandchildren.

Email: 1tim315@att.net

Sam Arrietta, Elder

Sam J Arrietta, Jr is self employed in the real estate industry dealing with financing and development.  Born in 1955 and born again in 1963, Sam has been serving and fellowshipping at Faith Bible since 1981 and now here at Living Truth.  God has blessed him with his wife, Marcy for over 30 years and they have 3 grown daughters and two son-in-laws.

Email: sam@activeresourcesinc.com

Sam "Sammie" Cayton, Elder

Sammie is a Licensed Real Estate Professional Notary and an Ordained Deacon with over 20 years of Information Technology.  He is married to wife, Teri and has three children.

Email: samcayton@yahoo.com

Shawn Van Hook, Church Secretary

Email: office@livingtruthcorona.org

Claudia Rizzi, Financial Administrator

Email: claudia@livingtruthcorona.org

Brenda Lantz, Graphic Design & Office Support

Email: bdlantz57@yahoo.com

Alyce Jackson, Office Support

Email: ajellie@att.net

Trish Campbell, Children's Ministry

Email: trishcampbell@livingtruthcorona.org

Linn Pronio, Women's Ministry

Email: linn@pronio.com

John Ferguson, Men's Ministry

Email: jferg@att.net