Joe De Leon
678 E. Shaw Avenue
Fresno CA 93710
559.229.9533 x. 262
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Joe De Leon is the leader of the Church Starting Group of California Southern Baptist Convention. His primary responsibility is supervising church starting specialists in California. He also coordinates all matters relating to directors of associational missions and is staff liasion for the Committee on Committees.

He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Corpus Christi in Texas, and a master of divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He also completed the doctoral courses at Talbot and Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminaries with emphasis in marriage and family counseling, evangelism and church administration.

He served as a senior pastor in California, Arizona, and Texas for 27 years, and was a Southern Baptist missionary in Russia for 10 years. He has served California Southern Baptists since 2001.

He is married and has two children and five grandchildren.