We are proud to launch our seventh annual Calvary School of Missions summer program! This six-week intensive program includes teaching and training on cross-cultural ministry, cultural immersion, church planting, God’s heart for the nations, and the current state of the unreached.
CSOM Staff
Tim and Jenn Pappas
Pastor Tim is our on-the-ground Director of Students, providing pastoral oversight and wisdom to the students as they experience the ups and downs of life on the mission field.
Jenn will be supporting her husband and leadership with the students who come to CSOM with her gift of love and hospitality.
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Trent and Debbie Douglass
Trent and Debbie Douglass have had a heart for international church planting for over 25 years. In 2018, the Lord gave them a new vision to mobilize and train up young people to be full time cross-cultural church planters. In 2019 they started the Calvary School of Missions and have been blessed to be a part of sending several of those students to be full-time workers oversees. Trent’s role at CSOM is teaching and training and Debbie is helping to lead and love on all the students, especially the girls.
Gary Barrow
Gary, his wife Tina, and their 3 kids served on the mission field for 15 years; 5 years in Eastern Europe and 10 years in Germany. They’ve planted churches in Hungary, Slovakia and Germany. They have been SGWM missionaries since 2008. In recent years, Gary has joined the pastoral staff at SGWM and is primarily engaged with discipling SGWM pastors in the 10/40 window. Gary also oversees the teaching schedules at our CBI’s in one of the largest unreached countries of the world. This is Gary’s second year of serving with pastor Tim at CSOM.
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Serena Keeler
Serena has been saved for almost 6 years, CCSG is where she got saved and has attended/served at ever since. She is currently on staff at CCSG and serving in the High School, Young Adult, and Worship ministries. She attended CSOM last year, and is excited to come back as a leader to pour into the girls and help with outreaches.
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Ariana Landaverde
Ariana decided to follow the Lord’s path by attending MTS so she can better prepare for the plans He has set for her. Ariana has been in the MTS program for 1 year now, and attended CSOM last year. Since then she has served in anything from BBQ to children’s ministry. She is hoping to be of support to this year’s girl students as well as help with outreaches and church takeovers.
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Deprii Haggstrom
Deprii is a Missionary in training at Calvary Chapel Saving Grace. From the moment Deprii met Jesus in 2020, He knew he was called to tell the world about The Son Of God. He is currently being trained to reach the unreached, make disciples, plant churches and proclaim the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth. He is excited to be serving at CSOM in the areas of leadership, discipleship, encouragement and seeing God set hearts on fire for the lost.
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CSOM Students
Dani Tsague
Dani Tsague is from Vancouver, WA and currently attends California Baptist University, where she plans to graduate from in the fall. She has been walking seriously with the Lord for about 5 years now. Being raised in a family of faith, she knew the call of the Great Commission, but never applied it to herself. Through cross-cultural mission trip experiences at CBU, the Lord grew her heart for the unreached. She desires to surrender her future onto the Lord as she goes through CSOM to see if long term missions is something the Lord has in store for her.
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Fidel Ordaz
Fidel, a Colorado native, served in the U.S. Army for 10 years, completing three deployments to Afghanistan before retiring in 2017. After battling fear, anxiety, and PTSD, he experienced a life-changing transformation upon coming to Christ in 2018. Feeling called to full-time ministry, Fidel applied to the Calvary School of Missions through prayer, Scripture, and wise counsel. With a heart for service and a desire to spread hope, he is committed to growing personally and spiritually. Fidel looks forward to learning, serving, and making a meaningful impact through mission work as he follows God’s calling on his life.
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Manuel Cañedo
Manuel Cañedo encountered the Word of God early and began serving in ministry and missions at age nine. At nineteen, a life-changing encounter with God deepened his passion for Jesus and His Church.
In 2017, God led Manuel, Eunice, and their three children to move from northern Mexico to Mazatlán, Sinaloa, where he serves as an assistant pastor at Calvary Maranatha and teaches at their church planting school.
Now, the Holy Spirit has called their family to plant a sending hub church on Spain’s southern coast. In preparation, Manuel joined CSOM in 2025 to be further equipped for the mission.
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Norman Rodriguez
Norman Rodriguez is from Yucca Valley, California and is currently attending the Calvary Bible Institute that is there and is graduating this May. Norman is a servant who was saved by Jesus in 2022 when God opened his eyes to the fact that he needed a Savior. God has been so faithful and good to Norman, and his desire now is to just keep growing closer to the Lord and to spread the good news.
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James & Tatiana Albano
James and Tatiana Albano met at Calvary Chapel Saving Grace in March of 2024 and were brought together by a shared love for Jesus Christ and world missions. James had been a Christian for several years before he came to Saving Grace and began to cultivate a deeper, more meaningful relationship with God. Tatiana grew up in a Christian home, and gave her life to Jesus at an early age, but only began to adopt her faith as her own when she was 16. While James has attended the school before, their expectation in doing CSOM now as a married couple is to learn more about God’s heart for missions and to discover where He would have them serve among the unreached.
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Timothy Gibson
Timothy is from Riverside, California. He grew up in a Christian home, but it was through personal health challenges and the reality of life and death that he built a firm foundation in Christ. While studying at Bible College in Israel, friends recommended Calvary School of Missions. Stepping out in faith, he applied and the Lord has been confirming His calling ever since. Timothy is excited to grow in missions and walk boldly in the purpose God has placed on his life.
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Bryan Barrow
Bryan grew up in a Christian household, and at a young age moved with his family to the missions field in Eastern Europe. There the Lord began to work on his heart for the lost, and slowly teach him His heart for them. After returning to the states years later, and pursing a normal life, Bryan felt that pursuing a life of self gain was meaningless, eternity was what truly mattered. Seeking and wanting more, the Lord revealed His will for his life, to send him to the unreached and to trust in Him on this path.
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Heather Illias
Born and raised in Oregon, and growing up in the church, Heather came to know Jesus and heard a call to missions in the middle of a chronic illness as a teenager. She had to wait 9 years for healing, and has been looking for ways to answer that call any way she can. CSOM was recommended to her by a Saving Grace missionary who partners with and came to speak at her local Calvary Chapel church in Prineville, Oregon.
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Guiseppina (Pina) Ercolamento Gruner
My name is Giuseppina Gruner. I declare and desire to obey the Lord’s call. I have spent my life serving people and dedicated to serving the homeless for many years.. My restaurant was my hub to share the gospel. I believe that the school of missions is the link God wants me to walk through to accomplish His will more deeply. In my later years, I have responded to the call, which resonates in my heart. Whom shall I send? Isaiah 6-8, Here I am Lord send me. Make me useful for the Kingdom work. I have been walking toward this call for years.
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