My name is Ted Brandt, pastor since July 2006 of First Presbyterian Church, Oxnard, California. Terri and I have been married since 1984, and we have four kids born between 1992 and 2000, and a huge dog.

I listen to music like U2, Santana, and Van Morrison, along with audiobooks as I drive around Ventura County – which has the best year-round open-top motoring climate in the world!

Golf and tennis are what I like to play. I am a Boston sports fan, which has been a lot more fun since 2001. I like to take road trips with my family – we are three hours from the border, which for now will satisfy my thirst for international travel. I read the occasional spy or mystery novel; most of my reading is non-fiction; political, historical and theological works.

I’m passionate about embracing our community and the world with the gospel of Christ and the transforming truth of the scriptures.

From 1999-2006 we lived and worked in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, based at the Theological College of Zimbabwe. From 1992-1999 I pastored two churches in Middleborough, Massachusetts; from 1989-1992 I was associate pastor in Glendale, RI; in 1988-1989 I studied in Jerusalem; my first pastorate was in Lowell, Mass, while attending Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.