“Control: Letting Go of It to Get It”

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Biography-Pastor Jason Terpack

PASTOR JASON TERPACK has been preaching since the age of seventeen when he re-organized the Bible Club on his public High School campus in Southern California.  B.A.S.I.C. - Brothers And Sisters In Christ and spoke at many other high schools in the Inland Empire.

In 1999, Jason graduated from John W. North High School and joined the United States Air Force in February 2000.  After completing his first deployment after 9/11, he began to work on his Bachelor’s Degree.  He was promoted to the rank of Staff Sergeant in August of 2003 and was awarded his Bachelor’s degree from Wayland Baptist University in 2005 with a major in Logistics Management.

Jason had a distinguished record of service in the military, going to war two times and earning the Air Force Commendation Medal twice among other decorations.  He was honorably discharged from the Service in December 2005.  At that time he became a substitute teacher in Arizona, followed by working as an Academic Counselor at Axia College of University of Phoenix in Arizona.

In August of 2007, he began graduate studies at Midwestern Seminary (www.mbts.edu) where he met the love of his life, Stephenie Long. They courted and were soon married on Leap Day- February 29, 2008.  A very small Baptist Church in the country called Jason as their Pastor in October 2007 after he filled the pulpit for a month and a half.  The congregation licensed Jason to the Gospel Ministry on November 4, 2007.  During Seminary, he also served a brief pastorate at a small Christian Church in Kansas City and was instrumental in the merger of two Congregations, which saved a 100-year old church from closing.

Pastor Terpack is a 2011 graduate of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and holds the Master of Divinity Degree.

After Seminary, Pastor Jason began a ministry at another small country Church with only 50 people.  In less than six months, that Congregation was running 100 people in worship attendance.  They did not want to grow so they asked him to resign.  But Pastor Jason did not give up on his calling from God to be a Minister.

Jason’s passion is to preach the Word of God in a clear and relevant way! He desires to build up saints by teaching the Bible, by being available, and by being involved in their lives.  He is also an evangelist, reaching the lost and unchurched. 

Jason was called as Pastor of the Cummings Christian Church in Atchison County, KS and Ordained to that ministry by the Elders February 2, 2014.  He served there for two years full-time and saw the Church grow under the blessing of the Lord!

When he is free, Jason enjoys spending time with his beautiful wife Stephenie playing with his son John as well as watching movies, drinking coffee, studying theology, and enjoying good food and fellowship.  Most importantly, Jason loves the Church and being a Pastor! He can't see himself doing anything else with his time.  

After the retirement of the well-loved Pastor Larry Brazier, Morningstar Christian Church (Now Montclair Christian Church), CA invited Jason to become their new Senior Pastor.  Pastor Jason began the work of pastoring this wonderful Church August 4, 2019. 

He looks forward to the great things God will do here in the Inland Empire!  His new book “Control: Letting Go of It to Get It” is scheduled to be released by Christmas 2019.

Beyond the Status Quo

Beyond the Status Quo

By Pastor Jason Terpack

There’s an old saying that goes, “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten.” That is a very true statement.  If you think about it in the simple terms of life, you’ll see that it is true.  My wife enjoys watching a television show called “Worst Cooks in America.”  It is a show about people who are awful cooks but enter into a “boot camp” taught by two top chefs to learn how to work well in the kitchen.  The participants on the show are not culinary experts and if they never decided to do anything about it that would not change-they would stay horrible cooks.  But, the ones who seek the difference by wanting to learn and grow and identify the challenges to their cooking will improve and change for the better.  What often motivates the participants is their desire to provide quality meals for their loved ones.

In a similar way, we can choose as people of faith to identify our areas of weakness, our “cooking,” and seek to go beyond the status quo.  We can get help from the experts or “top chefs” like Abraham, Moses, and Paul who left the status quo to fully follow God.

Abraham left the land of his father, Ur of the Chaldeans to seek a place, “A city whose builder and maker is God.”  He left that place because God called him to do that.  It was not easy and it was not convenient, and it was not what he had always done.  He was used to that territory and was used to doing things that way.  But God was calling him to something different, something new.  And because of his obedience we have the Savior of the world who came at Christmas as a son of Abraham (Matthew 1:1).

Moses is another person we can learn from about leaving the status quo.  He killed an Egyptian for beating a Hebrew slave and then worked in the desert as a fugitive shepherd.  But God called him to lead the people of Israel, enslaved 400 years in Egypt, out to the Promised Land.  Moses had plenty of reason not to go.  He was 80 years old at this time.  Also, he was not good at speaking; he had a stutter or other speech impediment.  He listened though and because of his obedience we have the Law of God as given by Moses (Genesis-Deuteronomy) which shows us our need for Christ (Galatians 3:24).

Then there is Paul.  Paul was a religious leader, comfortable with his station in life.  He was a Pharisee and well-respected as one who knew his own faith.  He in fact was a persecutor of the then infant church with letters from the top religious leaders endorsing his quest against Christians.  But God had different plans for Paul.  The Lord Jesus appeared to Paul on his trip to Damascus, while on his way to persecute the followers of Jesus there.  He was struck blind and spoken to in a voice from above (see Acts 9).  After three days, Paul who was previously called Saul had a very different attitude and perspective.  And he went on to found many churches and to write nearly two thirds of the New Testament of the Holy Bible.

In what way does God want to bring you out of the status quo in your life and in your church?  What is God calling you to do that may not be comfortable or convenient?  If you obey, you may just change the world!