{"id":17,"date":"2019-05-08T00:18:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T00:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valleyberean.043975b.netsolhost.com\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2019-05-09T02:43:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T02:43:27","slug":"pastors-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/valleyberean.org\/?page_id=17","title":{"rendered":"Pastor&#8217;s Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div id=\"attachment_224\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170503162643\/http:\/\/localhost:37468\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/eliwellspicture-00331.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-224 \" title=\"eliwellspicture-0033\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170503162643im_\/http:\/\/www.valleyberean.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/eliwellspicture-00331.jpg?w=89\" alt=\"\" width=\"89\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elijah Wells Jr. Pastor<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pastor Elijah Wells Jr. is the Sr. Pastor of Valley Berean Christian Church.\u00a0 He grew up in the greater Los Angeles area.\u00a0 Reared in Christian faith and the teaching of sound doctrine, he recognizes the importance of the authoritative Word of God.<\/p>\n<p>He was educated at California State University Los Angeles where he completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administation.\u00a0 Formally he worked with the U.S. Government as a contract auditor, as well as other manufacturing companies and non-profit organizations.\u00a0 For over twenty five years he has\u00a0conducted a\u00a0bookkeeping, tax service and\u00a0consultation business.<\/p>\n<p>He was licensed as\u00a0a minister in 1990 and ordained to preach\u00a0in 1994.\u00a0 He was called to pastoralship and\u00a0installed as Sr. Pastor\u00a0of Valley Berean Christian Church by a body and council of Pastors and elders of various Baptist affiliations.\u00a0\u00a0 In 2006, he\u00a0received a Master of Divinity Degree from Kings University, Van Nuys, California.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Wells is married to wife, Patricia, they\u00a0are the proud parents of four beautiful children and one grandson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elijah Wells Jr. Pastor Pastor Elijah Wells Jr. is the Sr. Pastor of Valley Berean Christian Church.\u00a0 He grew up in the greater Los Angeles area.\u00a0 Reared in Christian faith and the teaching of sound doctrine, he recognizes the importance of the authoritative Word of God. He was educated at California State University Los Angeles where he completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administation.\u00a0 Formally he worked with the U.S. Government as a contract auditor, as well as&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/valleyberean.org\/?page_id=17\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":88,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyberean.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyberean.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyberean.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyberean.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyberean.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/valleyberean.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/valleyberean.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/398"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyberean.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyberean.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}