About the Pastors

Sr. Pastor's Mike and Janiece Hudgins
Mike and Janiece Hudgins have served together in full-time ministry for twenty-eight years. Mike was ordained into the Christian ministry in 1979, after following the call of the Lord to leave medical school and become assistant pastor in his local church. After four years of ministry there, Janiece and Mike were sent to Hawaii to plant a new church on Oahu, and then sent to Pasadena, California, to oversee Asia for a missions agency called New Covenant Commission.

While in Pasadena, Pastor Mike studied at Fuller Theological Seminary and the U.S. Center for World Mission, and spent a great deal of time traveling and preaching in Asia. During this time he became acquainted with John Wimber (founder of the Association of Vineyard Churches) and attended Vineyard Christian Fellowship in Anaheim.

After moving to the Saddleback Valley in 1986, the Hudgins family made Mission Viejo Vineyard their home church, while Pastor Mike continued his missions ministry in Asia and other parts of the world. Pastor Mike became part of the staff at Mission Viejo Vineyard in 1990, where he served as an assistant pastor to Ed Piorek until 1997. During his time there, Pastor Mike also began to develop Global Network Ministries (1992) - a church planting missions organization that ministers to the poor in developing nations. In November 1997, Mission Viejo Vineyard formally sent Mike and Janiece to start Vineyard Community Church in Laguna Niguel, CA. Global Network Ministries now serves as the missions arm of Vineyard Community Church.

Mike and Janiece have four children ranging in age from fifteen to twenty-six. Janiece helps to lead worship in the church and is heavily involved with the women's ministry. The three boys, John (26), David (23), and Stephen (15) love all kinds of sports and music. Michelle (22), the only girl, loves music, dance and travel overseas. Pastor Mike is also "Coach Mike," having coached baseball over the years for his sons' teams.

Pastor Emeritus, Ed and Janet Piorek
Ed Piorek has been involved in pastoral ministry since 1972. In the early 1980's he started Calvary Chapel of San Clemente, which eventually became the Vineyard Christian Fellowship of San Clemente. In 1986, Ed was led by God to move the church to Mission Viejo. Recently the Lord spoke clearly to Pastor Ed that the church was to merge with VCC in order to move forward in the things God had for the church and the Saddleback area.

Early on in his ministry Ed traveled extensively with John Wimber and Vineyard Ministries International, teaching on healing, deliverance and the Fatherhood of God. Since the late 1980's he has been conducting his "Father Loves You" conference nationally and in several foreign countries.

Ed published his first book, Essential Manhood in 1996, and his second, The Father Loves You, in 1999 by Vineyard International Publishing. Ed and Janet now serve at VCC as Pastors Emeritus in addition to their continuing ministry to the Body of Christ through the "Father Loves You" ministries.

Ed and Janet live in Mission Viejo and have three adult sons and three grandchildren.