CSBC - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Accountant, Business Services Team
Job Titles:
- Executive Assistant
- Executive Office
Job Titles:
- Team Leader
- Team Leader, Church Matters Initiatives Team
Dr. Jason Robertson serves as the Church Matters Team Leader of the California Southern Baptist Convention, helping churches stay healthy. He is also an elder of Huntington Beach Church. Jason has over 20 years of ministry experience in California, including pastoring, coaching leaders, and planting and revitalizing churches.
Job Titles:
- Team Leader, Missions Initiatives Team
Francis Chung is a life-long California Southern Baptists who will bring cultural, secular work and church leadership experience to the newly developed Missions Initiatives Team for California Southern Baptists.
Francis grew up as part of the Mandarin Baptist Church of Los Angeles in Alhambra, a leading church in missions involvement and giving among California Southern Baptists. The church for many years has been the top giver to special mission offerings - state, national and international - among California Southern Baptist churches. Because of his leadership position in the Mandarin congregation, Francis also has been active in state and national fellowships of Chinese Baptists.
He is an honors graduate of Brandeis University in Massachusetts with a bachelor of arts degree in biochemistry. He attended Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary (now Gateway Seminary) and received a master of divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.
Job Titles:
- Leader of the Evangelism and Missions
- Team Leader, Evangelism Initiatives Team
Jason Blankenship is the leader of the Evangelism and Missions Initiatives Team for California Southern Baptist Convention. As team leader, Jason is an evangelism advocate for CSBC congregations responsible for developing and implementing a plan to assist churches with ministries to evangelize the unchurched in communities throughout the state.
Job Titles:
- Director, CSB Disaster Relief
Job Titles:
- Executive Assistant, Business Services Team
Job Titles:
- Certified Public Accountant
- CFO and Team Leader, Business Services Team
Marc Tempesta, a Certified Public Accountant, is the chief financial officer for California Southern Baptist Convention. He also is the leader for the CSBC Business Services Team and provides oversight of risk management, human resources, data management, mail services and facilities management.
Job Titles:
- Communications
- Lead Content Developer, Communications
Job Titles:
- Executive Director
- Executive Office
Pete Ramirez is the CSBC executive director. Elected in May 2022, Ramirez is responsible for leading staff in the ministry areas of church planting, church revitalization, evangelism and missions. He also leads the area related to business services and communications.
His passion is for local churches to reach their communities and win people to Jesus. His primary goal is to work with California Southern Baptist churches to push back the darkness for 35 million Californians who don't have a personal relationship with Jesus.
He served as leader of the CSBC Evangelism and Missions Team and as associate executive director before being elected chief executive officer of CSBC. Pete is married to Anabella. They have two daughters and one grandson.
Job Titles:
- Member of the CSBC Church Revitalization Initiatives Team
- Specialist, Church Matters Initiatives Team
Roger Byrd is a member of the CSBC Church Revitalization Initiatives Team. His primary responsibility is to work with churches in the Count the Cost ministry for new churches and those in need of revitalization. Roger also supports the ministry of music and worship for CSBC congregations, as well as prayer ministry.
Job Titles:
- Controller, Business Services Team
Job Titles:
- Communications
- Team Leader, Office of Communications
Sarah Graham was saved at a young age in a Southern Baptist church in La Habra, and has served several CSBC congregations, most notably 18 years at Green Hills Baptist, where she served first as the Worship Leader and then later as Director of Family Ministries and Church Administrator. Her experience in managing the day-to-day operations of the church and her abilities to plan large scale events are some of her greatest assets for the role of Director of Communications for CSBC. She has a Bachelors from Azusa Pacific University and a Masters of Leadership and Management Studies from California Baptist University.
Job Titles:
- Applications Data Specialist, Business Services Team
Job Titles:
- Church Planter 's Wives Specialist, Church Planting Initiatives Team
Job Titles:
- Specialist, Church Planting Initiatives Team
Job Titles:
- Director, Send Network California