Cody Archer

Cody is one of our farm boys from Alberta, Canada. He loves backpacking through exotic countries and escaping the cold Canadian winters. Cody did a mobile DTS thorugh five Carribean countries in 2006 and joined staff in the January of 2007. He has a heart for intercession, teaching, preaching, and going to the nations. He plans on staffing DTS and taking teams overseas. He also dreams of visiting Isreal and the Middle East in the near future.

Will, Lori and Elijah Barrow

"They don't think that I know a buttload of crap about the gospels, but i dooooo." -Ignacio

Will is from Toronto Canada. Will did his DTS at YWAM Denver in 1999. After DTS he went back to Denver and completed a Phase II and joined staff there in the spring of 2000. Lori is a local from Atascadero and did her DTS at YWAM Denver in 1998. After doing her Phase II in the fall of 1999, she joined staff in Denver in 2000. Will and Lori were married in 2001 and remained on staff with YWAM Denver till the end of that year. Will and Lori joined our staff in January of 2004 after a two-year leave in Canada. Will has a heart for the "boarder" community, and loves to surf and snowboard. He is involved with our Graphic Arts department and has a heart for Mexico. Lori is very involved in seeing the churches in the Central Coast mobilized in missions, and together they are working on starting Mission Adventures within the next year. Elijah joined the party on November 7th, 2006. He enjoys sleeping, pooping and eating. He is our youngest missionary in training here at YWAM Pismo Beach.

Cat Bramley

"The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged." - Deuteronomy 31:6

Cat is from Liverpool, England. Cat has a heart for the surf and music culture, and Oceano. Cat did her DTS here in Pismo in January of 2007, and went on her outreach to Kenya & Rwanda. She joined staff with us in February of 2008.

Brandon Ekstrom

"My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." -Jesus

Brandon is from Bonanza, Oregon, and is our other farm boy. He has a heart for the boarding culture and believes it has a huge role to play in the great commission. He wants to pursue surfing ministry, and also has a heart for the poor and needy and wants to see discipleship in those areas. He did his Discipleship Training School in 2005 here in Pismo Beach, and joined staff shortly after in 2006. He staffed the January 2007 DTS, which was a surfing/creative arts DTS. Brandon loves traveling and going on missions trips. While he is here in Pismo Beach he is going to be coordinating our surfing ministry.

Morgan, Lori & Alleyah

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -Jim Elliott

Morgan is originally from the town of Corcoran, California and did his DTS in Salem, Oregon in 1998. He joined staff in Salem after attending a Staff and Leadership Training School in 1999.

Lori is from Visalia, California and did her DTS in Heidebeek, Holland in 2001. Lori joined staff in Salem after marrying Morgan in 2001. Her passion is working with developmentally disabled children and their families.

Alleyah was born on June 23, 2005 in Salem, Oregon. She has already taken 13 plane rides in her short life and is a great YWAM baby.

Morgan and Lori joined staff in June 2006. Their heart is for the most unreached peoples of the world. They are on the Central Coast to see it reached and mobilized to the nations. Morgan is also completing training at Cal Poly in Agricultural Engineering, in order to work overseas among an unreached people group in Asia.

Rachelle (Shelly) Larue

Shelly is a 'gypsy' and has roamed the world, but calls her home Nashville Tennessee. Shelly did her DTS with us here in YWAM Pismo in January of 2007. She went to Kenya and Rwanda for her outreach and joined staff here in November of 2007. Shelly is called to mercy ministries and wants to reach out to those in need. She is an intercessor and worshiper and is very passionate about what the Lord calls her to do.

Lauren Nelson

"If you are going to be underestimated by people who speak more rapidly, the temptation is to speak slowly and strategically and outwit them."
-- Doris Betts

Lauren Nelson drove to California from the wilds of Alabama. Her vision is to create a missions magazine that will kick start others into daring adventures with God around the world. She has a heart for the UK and Indonesia, and desires to lead teams to those places one day...and anywhere else God might take her! Lauren earned a degree in journalism from Auburn University in 2002, and went to work as a sports writer for four years in Nashville, Tenn., before feeling God's call to join YWAM. She completed her DTS at Holmsted Manor, England in 2006, and joined YWAM Pismo in early 2007. Lauren enjoys hiking, ESPN, writing and reading multiple books at once.

Stephanie Pimental

But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him. For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life. And who is equal to such a task? Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, like men sent from God. - 2 Corinthians 2:14-17

Stephanie joins us from Riverside in Southern California. She did her DTS here in Pismo in January of 2007 and joined staff in November 2007. Stephanie is an intercessor and has a heart for worship and loves to work with children. She is going to be joining our Jr. Adventures Ministry and has a heart for Cambodia, and a heart for Discipleship.

Cindy Robert

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to gain mighty triumphs even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither gain much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt

Cindy is from Calgary, Canada. She finds Canada extremely cold and snowy so she was really happy when God called her to join staff in the Central Coast. Cindy did her DTS in Las Vegas in 2004, and an IBC in Kona in 2005. Her outreaches have taken her to Amsterdam, England, Ireland, and Scotland. Cindy has a heart for women in need, mercy ministries, counseling, and mobilizing people into missions. She staffs the creative arts/surf DTS, with a focus on the creative arts aspect.

Jeremy & Val Sizemore

"I am the gate keeper of my own destiny...I will have my glory day in the hot sun" -Ignacio

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." - Winnie the Pooh

Jeremy and Val are both local to the central coast, growing up mainly in Atascadero. They were married in 1998 and were the youth pastors of Atascadero Foursquare Church for six years when God called them to do their DTS at YWAM Las Vegas. After completing their DTS and outreach to Egypt in 2001, Jeremy and Val joined staff in Las Vegas. While there, they were involved in and lead worship, DTS, Mission Adventures, and helped start an inner-city youth outreach called Hang Time. In 2003, Jeremy and Val were called to pioneer a new YWAM base in the Central Coast, their home! They started the first community house in Grover Beach. Jeremy has a heart for worship, evangelism, missions, and discipling world changers. He would like to see the Central Coast reached with the gospel and released into all the nations. Val loves working with children and teaching them about God's heart for the nations.