Matt McLain
Youth Pastor
Although Matt McLain is originally from Virginia, he attended Word of Life Bible Institute in New York, received a B.S. in Geology from Cedarville University in Ohio, and married his wife Jessica in 2012 in France where her family serves as missionaries. Afterwards, the two of them moved to San Bernardino, California so that Matt could complete his PhD in Earth Sciences from Loma Linda University. Matt and Jessica served in youth ministry at the Anchor Bible Church of Redlands while living in San Bernardino.
Upon completion of his doctoral research on a dinosaur bonebed in Wyoming in 2016, Matt began teaching as a professor at The Master’s University in Santa Clarita, California. It was at this point that Matt and Jessica began to attend Santa Clarita Baptist Church. In 2018, Matt became the youth pastor at SCBC and also serves in other teaching, preaching, and discipleship roles. Matt and Jessica have four children: Alaric, Cody, Iris, and Soren. In addition to teaching at TMU and serving as the youth pastor at SCBC, Matt does research in vertebrate paleontology on dinosaurs, pterosaurs, non-mammalian synapsids, and other extinct animals.
Upon completion of his doctoral research on a dinosaur bonebed in Wyoming in 2016, Matt began teaching as a professor at The Master’s University in Santa Clarita, California. It was at this point that Matt and Jessica began to attend Santa Clarita Baptist Church. In 2018, Matt became the youth pastor at SCBC and also serves in other teaching, preaching, and discipleship roles. Matt and Jessica have four children: Alaric, Cody, Iris, and Soren. In addition to teaching at TMU and serving as the youth pastor at SCBC, Matt does research in vertebrate paleontology on dinosaurs, pterosaurs, non-mammalian synapsids, and other extinct animals.