{"id":82,"date":"2026-01-28T03:02:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stonecreek.rueterhome.com\/?page_id=82"},"modified":"2026-03-07T14:23:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T22:23:39","slug":"leadership","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stonecreek.rueterhome.com\/index.php\/about\/leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_flex_row\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_flex_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_flex_column_12_24 et_flex_column_12_24_tablet et_flex_column_24_24_phone\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_image_0 et_pb_image et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stonecreek.rueterhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-10.png\" title=\"image\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stonecreek.rueterhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-10.png 500w, https:\/\/stonecreek.rueterhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-10-480x480.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 500px, 100vw\" class=\"wp-image-452\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_1 et_pb_column et-last-child et_flex_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_flex_column_12_24 et_flex_column_12_24_tablet et_flex_column_24_24_phone\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><div class=\"gp-text-container gp-component gp-component-id-uYppsUEhK\" data-gp-style=\"\" data-gp-text=\"\" data-gp-dnd=\"\" data-gp-component-id=\"uYppsUEhK\" data-gp-component=\"null\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<h2 class=\"gp-component-id-N0lpi0JZ8n\" data-id=\"quill-node-0\">Leadership<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gp-text-container gp-component gp-component-id-7TPCI9szYw\" data-gp-style=\"\" data-gp-text=\"\" data-gp-dnd=\"\" data-gp-component-id=\"7TPCI9szYw\" data-gp-component=\"null\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<p class=\"gp-component-id-Tp7qa00Ofi\" data-id=\"quill-node-0\"><strong>John Beeman, Senior Pastor<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gp-text-container gp-component gp-component-id-ZM9t3kjNp\" data-gp-style=\"\" data-gp-text=\"\" data-gp-dnd=\"\" data-gp-component-id=\"ZM9t3kjNp\" data-gp-component=\"null\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<p class=\"gp-component-id-_ZLgtV9NLv\" data-id=\"quill-node-0\"><strong>Melissa\u00a0Beeman, Administrator<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gp-text-container gp-component gp-component-id-EjvjqVV5cx\" data-gp-style=\"\" data-gp-text=\"\" data-gp-dnd=\"\" data-gp-component-id=\"EjvjqVV5cx\" data-gp-component=\"null\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<p class=\"gp-component-id-wuRi5abjHN\" data-id=\"quill-node-0\">John has been our Senior Pastor since 2012.\u00a0He and Melissa have been married for 30 years and they have two sons, Cayman &amp; Grayson. The Beemans have lived in the RSM\/Mission Viejo area for more than 20 years.\u00a0Prior to coming to Orange County, John served as the Family Life Minister at a church in La Mesa, California, and has also served as a Senior Pastor for two other churches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gp-component-id-wuRi5abjHN\" data-id=\"quill-node-1\">Most recently he was the founding pastor of Cornerstone Christian Church in Mission Viejo.\u00a0\u00a0As the Senior Pastor at Stonecreek, John\u2019s primary role is to provide spiritual leadership over Stonecreek\u2019s missions and vision, transformational Scripture-based teaching and pastoral care to those in need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gp-component-id-wuRi5abjHN\" data-id=\"quill-node-2\">John grew up in Mexico as a child of missionary parents.\u00a0\u00a0After graduating from Abilene Christian University he obtained a Masters degree in marriage and family therapy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gp-component-id-wuRi5abjHN\" data-id=\"quill-node-3\">Although ministry keeps John pretty busy, he still finds time to have some of his favorite pastimes into the fabric of everyday life.\u00a0John loves people and he enjoys good food so if you know of a great little place or want to grab a bite,\u00a0give him a call!\u00a0Melissa Beeman is married to Pastor John Beeman and that is full time ministry.\u00a0As administrator, her role and responsibilities include managing and overseeing facility use and maintenance and supporting various church administrative needs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":61,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-82","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonecreek.rueterhome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonecreek.rueterhome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonecreek.rueterhome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonecreek.rueterhome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonecreek.rueterhome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stonecreek.rueterhome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/stonecreek.rueterhome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82\/revisions\/453"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonecreek.rueterhome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonecreek.rueterhome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}