Shawn Thornton

Shawn Thornton grew up in Indiana. He received Christ in middle school and in his early teen years stood before the congregation to announce his availability for Christian ministry. At the age of thirty, he was invited to become the senior astor of Bible Center Church in Charleston, West Virginia, a high-profile congregation in the state capital. Since 2008 he has served as senior pastor of Calvary Community Church in Westlake Village, California, which now sees an attendance of about four thousand people each Sunday and minsters effectively to the community, the state, and beyond.