Mike McClenahan is Senior Pastor of Solana Beach Presbyterian Church in North County San Diego. He previously served in northern California, where he led student ministries, family ministries and evangelism. Currently Mike chairs Presbyterian Global Fellowship, which transforms mainline congregations into missional communities and since 1995 Mike and his wife Amy have served on the Amor Ministries board of directors and national advisory board, responding to physical and spiritual poverty in Mexico. They have adult twin sons and almost two daughters in law. Mike earned a BA in Spanish from UCLA and a masters and doctorate from Fuller Theological Seminary. Mike's passion is for the church to be a place and people of real transformation for the sake of others.

I love to personally intersect peoples lives right where they live -- addressing and entering into their questions, concerns, needs, hurts, and challenges which can take them into the next steps of experiencing God's grace and transforming power to become all that God has created them to be -- whole/complete/mature in Christ.

My wife Clydeen, whom I married in 1970, and our daughter Kristina (born in 1975) are involved in their respective ministries of healing -- inner healing and physical healing -- which engages them in similar ways in people's lives, often traveling internationally to do so.

My son Bryce (born in 1978) is a quality control system's engineer for Zimmer Dental Implant Co. in Carlsbad and enjoys training colleagues in quality control disciplines as well as heading up a team charged with keeping their product healthy and customers happy.

I grew up in Niles, Michigan with my mom and spent summers with my dad in Manhattan, New York City.  I moved to Santa Barbara where I graduated from San Marcos High School in 1964.  I went on to Stanford University where I graduated with a degree in psychology after responding to a call to pastoral ministry which entailed foregoing plans to go to business school as an econmics major with the initial intent to become a C.P.A.  So, I did graduate school at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena where I received my Master of Divinity degree and became an ordained minister of word and sacrament in the Presb yterian Church.

I served as an associate pastor to youth at Glendale Presbyterian Church from 1972-1976 and an associate pastor for adult ministries at Community Presbyterian Church in Ventura from 1976-1987 before coming to SBPC on February 1st, 1987.

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Next to being a husband of 31 years, a dad of three, and a grandpa of two, what rings my bells is the world! I'm sold out to the plans Jesus has to renew the planet and it's peoples by seeing people from every culture come to life in Christ. I believe there is no other way! I love serving at SBPC because we care about the world. Here in San Diego, in Africa, in Latin America, in Asia, we are connected and we are involved.

I love serving in a church where people desire to discover more of who God is and understand more of who they are in order to continually experience new facets of their relationship with Christ. As Pastor of Discipleship and Small Groups I have the opportunity to work with many different areas of the church as together we worship, grow, and serve Christ for the sake of others. I am a Southern California native and have been married to my husband, Bill, for 36 years.

I get to work with a great staff who love and value students and their families of our community. I also lead ministry and mission with college-age through 30's in our church. To catch a glimpse of what I am reading or thinking about, read my blog.