Sean’s most inner desire is to be a part of a God driven movement that impacts the world for God’s glory. His aim is to prepare, equip, and sustain leaders to do the work in which God calls them.

Currently, he is the Executive Director of the Presbytery of San Diego. For the last three years he has been bringing to fruition the strategic plan that the Presbytery has developed focusing on church vitalization, church planting, and being missionally aligned.

Prior to serving in San Diego Presbytery, he served as the Associate for 1001 New Worshiping Communities for Training and Leadership Cohorts for the Presbyterian Mission Agency. The focus of his work has been to develop resources, workshops, and curriculum that empowers pastors and leaders to live faithfully into their communities. His role was to resource and consult with regional denomination bodies, churches, and church plants as they launch new creative expressions of church.

Sean has served as a Commissioned Lay Pastor at First Presbyterian Church (Oxnard, CA) and Word of Life Presbyterian Church (Port Hueneme, CA) prior to becoming a Minister of Word and Sacrament. His first ordained call was in the West Jersey Presbytery where he served as the Associate Pastor of Family Life at St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church in Laurel Springs, NJ. It was there that he developed a New Worshiping Community called Refresh that actively engaged the community through a series of house churches.

He is a graduate of Azusa Pacific University (2005), Master of Divinity from San Francisco Theological Seminary (2009) and a Doctor of Ministry at New York Theological Seminary (2022). Sean’s doctoral work was published by Cyclical Publishing. It is entitled “Rediscovering Vitality: A Handbook for Church Missioning and Visioning” (2022). Through this he has become a frequent speaker to churches, committees, gatherings, and conferences.

Sean has served the denomination through several roles. On the Presbytery level for both West Jersey Presbytery and Santa Barbara Presbytery he has served on the Committee on Ministry, Chair of the Designated General Presbyter Search Committee, New Church Development Committee, Presbytery Council, Nominating Committee, Presbytery Moderator, and Commissioner for General Assembly. Nationally, Sean has served on a variety of planning committees, workshop leader, reviewer for the Mission Development Resource Committee, and more. Currently, he serves on the Board of Ukirk College Ministries and on the Task Force for the Theology and Practice of Ordination.

Sean and his wife Jennifer have been married twenty-nine years. They have four children: Rianne (27), Lauren (25), Hunter (20), and Daniel (15). Sean can often be found on the tennis court and searching for the best dim-sum and street tacos in the neighborhood.