ALAN THOMPSON
Assistant Pastor / Mission Director

Alan Thompson has been on staff with Calvary Tucson since July of 2002. He is the Missions Pastor, helping our church body in local missions and reaching out internationally. His vision is to train and equip members of the body of Christ to reach out into the world and share their love and faith through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. One of Alan's greatest desires is to see God call many members of Calvary Tucson onto mission fields throughout the world.

Alan has been a Christian since 1974, coming out of the hippie and drug culture of the 60's and 70's. He became Christian through the witness of two friends and their faithfulness to share the Gospel. As a young Christian, Alan spent many hours reading the Bible and growing in knowledge of God's words and grace. He also grew in the gift of evangelism, which has now become one of his passions. Shortly after accepting Christ, Alan began traveling to many countries throughout Europe, North Africa, Mexico, and Central America. During these travels to 26 different countries, the Lord gave Alan a deep love for people of different cultures and a desire to reach them with the Gospel.

In 1979, Alan graduated from Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, CA. with a B.A. in Industrial and Commercial Photography. During this time, he started attending Calvary Chapel of Santa Barbara. After graduating, he moved to Newport Beach, CA. and started a photography business. While there, Alan began to fellowship and serve at Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa. God gave him a desire during this time to become more involved in ministry, and in October 1980, Alan went to a language school in Mexico to learn Spanish. During the last two weeks of school, the Lord spoke to him and called him to serve in Mexico. There he served for 22 years as a missionary and helped establish five churches in the states of Sonora, Sinaloa, and Chihuahua.

During this period Alan met his wife Julie and together they have two children, Ryan and Suzanne. Alan and Julie pastored a church in Alamos, Mexico for 13 years. God started speaking to Alan and Julie about returning to the United States. Through a vision in an afterglow, and at Pastor Robert's invitation to serve at Calvary Tucson, Alan has received new direction, not just for Mexico, but for world missions.