About Our Pastor and Wife
Neil and Susan Earle have worked with God's people in England, as well asacross the United States and Canada. Neil has been a pastor and published journalist for 43 years.
The Earles met in the summer of 1970 on the Jerusalem Dig, a joint project of Ambassador College and Hebrew University. Neil was attending Ambassador College in England at the time. He went there from Newfoundland, Canada where he taught school at the air base in GooseBay in 1967-1968.
Susan began attending church with her parents in Memphis, Tennessee in 1961. She began attending Ambassador College, Big Sandy, Texas, in 1967. After Neil's graduation in 1972, they were sent to minister in churches across the Canadian prairies. The Earles pastored four churches in Toronto, Ontario from 1984 to 1992 and Neil earned an M.A. (History) at the University of Toronto. In 1992, they were transferred to Vancouver, British Columbia, where Neil began a Canadian Editorial Office. In 1993, they were moved to Pasadena where Neil was assigned to coordinate the international editions of the Plain Truth magazine.
In 1996, Neil and Susan returned to the field ministry as the pastor of the Glendora, California congregation. Then, from June 1998 to June 2001 Neil also pastored the San Bernardino congregation and served as Senior Pastor in Moreno Valley in 1999. In March 2004, he raised up the new church now meeting in the Inland Empire.
Neil is also an adjunct History teacher at Citrus College, was once a regular on the Hugh Hewitt show "Good Guys" segment and hosts his own Cable TV show in Duarte. He is also editor of Reconcile newsletter and a regular contributor to the Canadian Northern Light and the German Nachfolge. His articles have been featured in Christianity.ca and he is finishing a biography of Herbert W. Armstrong.
Susan is an amateur photographer with some of her pictures published internationally as well as for Duarte TV, Cable 55. She has served for more than ten years as Curtis May's part-time secretary at the GCI's Office of Reconciliation Ministries where she helps produce "Reconcile" newsletter. She is also Registrar for the church's online Master's programs titled Grace Communion Seminary. She assists her husband as unofficial church secretary for such matters as attendance, the weekly bulletin, and church records-keeper – a busy life.
Neil graduated from Fuller Seminary (1998) and holds a Master's degree in Theology and continues the learning process with occasional English and PR classes at UCLA. In 2009 he was awarded a Community Volunteer Award by the City of Duarte.
Neil and Susan live in Duarte and can be reached by e-mail at neil.earle@gci.org or by phone at (626) 256-4919.