{"id":6,"date":"2013-10-15T10:41:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T16:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/murphyscommunitychurch.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2019-05-10T17:37:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T00:37:46","slug":"about-the-pastor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.murphyscommunitychurch.org\/?page_id=6","title":{"rendered":"About Our Pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4168\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4168\" style=\"width: 154px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.murphyscommunitychurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/bill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4168 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.murphyscommunitychurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/bill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pastor Bill Sidorvich<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Bill&#8217;s Background<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;I was raised in a Christian home and literally grew up in the church, surrounded with godly influences. One night, I asked Jesus into my heart while my dad was doing his usual bible devotions with me. After that time, I watched God work in my life as He brought me to a point of complete surrender. And now, He is my everything!&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Call to Ministry<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;When I was 12, I was inspired by a very dynamic Jr. Pastor (coincidentally his name was &#8220;Bill&#8221;) and thought to myself, &#8220;Maybe I&#8217;ll do that someday.&#8221; When I went to college, God patiently led me through a process of elimination until His calling on my life was obvious and I was ready to obey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Education<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>AA of Liberal Arts Degree &#8211; Los Angeles City College<\/li>\n<li>Bachelor of Science in Bible Exposition &#8211; Biola College<\/li>\n<li>Master of Divinity &#8211; Talbot Theological Seminary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Transition to MCC<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;I moved my family to Big Valley Grace Church in Modesto for a one-year internship after I graduated. MCC called Big Valley when their first pastor resigned; I gave a &#8216;trial sermon&#8217; shortly after and became the pastor in 1986.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill&#8217;s Background &#8220;I was raised in a Christian home and literally grew up in the church, surrounded with godly influences. One night, I asked Jesus into my heart while my dad was doing his usual bible devotions with me. After that time, I watched God work in my life as He brought me to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.murphyscommunitychurch.org\/?page_id=6\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Our Pastor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9ZN00-6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.murphyscommunitychurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.murphyscommunitychurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.murphyscommunitychurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.murphyscommunitychurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.murphyscommunitychurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.murphyscommunitychurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4499,"href":"https:\/\/www.murphyscommunitychurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/4499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.murphyscommunitychurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}