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Biographie de John "Cleve" Stafford

I was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and matriculated in 1981. My mother was a "non-practicing" Catholic, and my father was a non-believer. Of course, that meant we never attended any kind of church service. My first exposure to a sermon happened when I was in boarding school in grade eight. I met my wife in 1995, and we were married two years later. In 1999, a chance encounter with two Texans would eventually culminate in us moving to America to study the Bible.
After my undergraduate degree, I completed an MA. Christian Counseling degree as well. In 2006, I became a youth minister and later an associate minister before being convinced to move to the northeast to grow a newly established church. We have lived in Massachusetts ever since. My wife and I have three adult children and two beautiful granddaughters. A