Church On The Rock
McKinleyville CA

Rev. David Kilmer  

Pastor  

 

 

707-839-7993  

 

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PASTOR DAVID KILMER has a passion for the presence and power of the Holy Spirit and for the advance of the kingdom of God in McKinleyville and in the North Coast Region of California. He works to help each person come into health and wholeness through Christ and His unconditional love, grace and mercy. He wants to help each one to experience personally the love and presence of Christ. He wants also to help each one to come into his or her own spiritual destiny and inheritance as a joint heir and as a royal priest of Christ. His priority then for this season is equipping believers, especially young leaders, to do the work of the ministry, until we all come to unity in Christ in love (Ephesians 4:11-16). At The Church on the Rock, he works to continue the emphasis on building personal relationships and fellowship where visitors are welcomed to become a valued part of the church family. He prays and works for revival and for our nation to return to God and the Judeo-Christian principles of our Founding Fathers. His heart is also for the nations so that “every tribe and tongue and people and nation” will be represented around the throne of God (Revelation 5:9-10).

David has served as the pastor of The Church on the Rock, a Foursquare Church, since February of 2010. He and his wife Elizabeth have been partners in ministry now in four churches in Humboldt County since they first came here in 1985. Before coming to The Church on the Rock, he was the pastor at the Ferndale Community Church (Independent) for 19 years, as the interim pastor at Arcata First Baptist Church (Charismatic American Baptist) for three years, and as a co-pastor at the Murray Road Community Church, McKinleyville (Southern Baptist) for one year.

Before coming to Humboldt county he served as an Elder in an independent charismatic church and served on staff in two American Baptist Churches, all in Marin County. Over the years, he has networked and partnered with other pastors, churches and ministries for the greater cause of Christ.

An experienced Bible teacher, David has been an instructor at the North Coast Bible Institute since 2003, hosted at the Eureka Faith Center Foursquare Church, but which is open to the community. Over the years he also has been a volunteer teacher in several Bible Institutes, Leadership and Discipleship Schools as well as for other local ministries in the area. He specializes in both the Old and New Testaments, Biblical Theology and Revival History.

He developed a heart for the nations early on, when he lived overseas in Ethiopia, Kenya and Egypt with his family as a child, before returning stateside to live in Ohio, Connecticut, Pasadena, California and then in the San Francisco Bay Area for 25 years before coming to Humboldt County. Before becoming a Christian, he received a B.A. degree in Art History from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He had a salvation experience in 1973 and accepted a call to ministry in 1975. He has a Masters of Divinity degree from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, received his first ministerial license in 1977 and his first ordination in 1983. He and his wife Elizabeth have been married over 30 years. They have two grown sons who are serving the Lord on the worship team in a church in the Seattle area.

ELIZABETH KILMER was born in London, UK. She has a B.A in Music from the University of East Anglia and a Certificate of Education from the Teacher Training College in Oxford and is also credentialed as a Teacher of the Deaf. She spent much of her early life improving her piano skills and playing double bass in amateur orchestras. Having worked in various schools for the hearing impaired in the UK. Elizabeth took off in 1980 to visit California.
Her "time off" turned into immigration and citizenship when she married David in 1981.

Elizabeth has been an elementary and high school teacher in her subsequent US career and is currently a homeroom teacher for Junior High and a High School English teacher at New Life Christian School in Fortuna, CA. She is also a certified screener for Irlen Syndrome, a light-processing problem that affects reading ability in almost one-fourth of the population.

Outside school, Elizabeth takes an active part in the churches she and her husband have pastored, leading worship, small groups, intercessory groups, Sunday School and participates in counseling. She enjoys classical music, gardening, walks in the Redwood, her family, and reading.

She has authored 2 books, Measured by Candlelight, a novel/biography of her mother, and Trick of the Light, a novel promoting the discovery on Irlen Syndrome. She is currently working on a third book.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1947 Sutter Rd
McKinleyville CA
95519  

English  

Children's church during second part of service  

 

New King James, NIV, NASB  

Mostly contemporary worship, spanning 1970's to current. Some well-known hymns. Traditional carols at Christmas  

30-40  

ages 17-25, around 6