Donald J. Strand

After serving in the U.S. Air Force, Don earned a degree in Electrical Engineering and began working with a group of physicists and engineers in Boston, adapting the principles of high-energy physics for computer chip manufacturing. Over the next twenty-five years, Don held positions of increasing responsibility in engineering for two successful startups providing capital equipment to major computer chip manufacturers worldwide.

After retiring from industry, Don felt called to ministry and earned an M.A. in pastoral ministry from Trinity Seminary, Indiana. Since 2010, Don has served as an elder, music minister, and teaching pastor at Christian Family Fellowship in Santa Rosa, California. Don and Wendy live on a ranch in Northern California and have three adult children and six grandchildren.