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In early 2000, Ron and Deb Vanderwell and their family accepted a call from the Granite Springs Church in Rocklin, CA to begin a church in the Natomas area of Sacramento.  Before that, Ron had served as Senior Pastor of Southern Heights Church, a Christian Reformed ministry in Kalamazoo, MI for nine years.  After moving to California, Ron first served as a part-time staff position at Granite Springs Church while preparing to move to Natomas and begin development work at The Gathering.  In August of 2000, the Vanderwells moved to Natomas.   Regular weekly services began in October, 2001 at the Regal Cinema in the Natomas Marketplace.
 

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Lead Pastor Ron Vanderwell hails from the proud town of Lebanon, Iowa — a town too small to even have a cross street or stop sign.  As a child, he lived in various places in Michigan and Illinois.  He once fixed up an old sailboat with several family members and taught himself to sail on Lake Michigan.

After graduating from his college and seminary training, Ron led the re-visioning of Southern Heights Church, a Christian Reformed congregation in Kalamazoo, MI.   After serving there for nearly a decade, God called Ron and his wife Deb to plant a new church in California.  They moved their family to Northern California in January, 2000.

Ron once ran up the second-largest down escalator in the world, located near Washington, D.C.  We don’t know why — he just did.

Ron is a board member of the Natomas Community Association and chair of the Site Council of Natomas Park Elementary School.  Ron and Deb live in Natomas with their three boys: John, Adam, and Jacob.

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