Bill’s first memory of church was when his family attended the opening service of Angelus Temple, the church founded by Aimee Semple McPherson in Los Angeles. A few years later, at 9 years of age, he was riding home from church on a train when he heard God speak audibly to him and call him into the ministry.
     Bill was ordained with the Assemblies of God in 1942 and served some 15 years in pastoral ministry. In 1957 he was elected secretary/treasurer for the Southern California District. He held this position until 1968 when he became district superintendent, a post he filled until 1980. During the time he made several overseas preaching trips.
     From 1986 to 1996 Bill and his wife Jeanette lived in Singapore, where they were members at Trinity Christian Center. They then transferred to Guam, where Bill was senior associate pastor at International Christian Assembly in Barrigada. Since their return to the United States in 1999, they have served as consultants in the church ministries division of the Asia Pacific Education Office.