Garrett grew up at San Gabriel Community Church where he learned about the faith. In his late teenage years, his love for the Lord was lukewarm or worse. At the age of 20, following several difficult experiences including the loss of his mother Judy to cancer, God did a work in him which caused him to start following Jesus with love and sincerity. The principal verse that Garrett attributes to his conversion is Luke 9:23 where Jesus says, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.”
In 2013, Garrett became a full-time missionary to Italy where he served on a church planting team. There he met Lia, a missionary from Davenport, Iowa. They started dating after three years of being coworkers and got married in 2018. In 2020, he and Lia returned to the U.S. to pursue further training in ministry and form deeper connections with family and their sending churches. In 2022, they welcomed their son Daniel to their family and in 2024 they welcomed their second son, Levi. They are currently preparing to return to the mission field in Italy.
Garrett hold a B.S. in Nonprofit Management from City Vision University and a Masters of Divinity from the Master’s Seminary. In addition, he is receiving training through his pastoral ministry internship at SGCC.
Some of his favorite authors are John Frame, Vern S. Poythress, D.A. Carson, and G.K. Beale. He enjoys going on adventures with his wife and kids. He also dabbles in languages (both human and computer) from time to time.
