Cofounders/Directors/Board Members

Jamin Goggin - jamin@metamorpha.com

Jamin Goggin is a teacher and practitioner of spiritual formation. His main areas of focus are spiritual theology, historical spirituality and Christian community. He has done Masters work in Spiritual Formation and Soul Care as well as New Testament at Talbot School of Theology. Jamin lives in southern California with his wife Kristin and their two children. He has pastored in churches in southern California for the past four years. He is also a trained spiritual director. Jamin passionately seeks to implement spiritual formation in the life of the church.

Kyle Strobel - kyle@metamorpha.com

Kyle Strobel is a speaker, writer, and a practitioner of spiritual formation and community transformation. His main focus is on discipleship, spiritual formation, and creating a community of disciples who do the same. He has done masters work in Philosophy of Religion as well as New Testament. After doing further masters work in Spiritual Formation, Kyle has started his Ph.D in theology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland in order to help integrate the often divorced spheres of theology and spirituality.

Kyle has focused his ministry on developing and equipping people to live a Jesus way of life, which is also the subtitle to his book Metamorpha: Jesus as a way of life(Baker, April 2007). Kyle and his wife Kelli live in Aberdeen, Scotland. Click here for Kyle's personal page, or click here to see the blog Kyle contributes to.

Board Members

Steve Porter

Steve Porter is an assistant professor of theology and philosophy at Talbot School of Theology and Rosemead School of Psychology, Biola University. Steve received his PhD in Philosophy at USC under Dallas Willard. His areas of interest include: integrative theology of sanctification, integration of psychology and theology, and philosophical theology. He lives with his wife Alicia and son Luke in Long Beach, California.

Larry Warner

Larry Warner is executive director of “b”, which is a ministry that provides spiritual direction, contemplative retreats, and holistic leadership development for pastors, ministry leaders, and church staffs. He is a spiritual director, adjunct professor and directs the training and ongoing development of spiritual directors throughout Southern California. Larry has a varied vocational background having spent 12 years as a youth pastor in the Los Angeles area, 6 years as a Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff and another 10 years as a senior pastor in San Diego. He is also the co-author of Imaginative Prayer in Youth Ministry (Zondervan,2007). His desire is to give others the tools and opportunities to experience a growing and deepening relationship with God and thus become the unique pastor, leader, person God has created them to be.

Larry has a B.A. in Biblical Studies, Masters of Theology, has completed a program in Spiritual Formation and Direction at Azusa Pacific University’s Graduate School, and has completed a two-year program in Spiritual Direction at the University of San Diego.

Council Members

Julie Barrios - Director of Guidance - julie@metamorpha.com

Julie Barrios is a spiritual director and supervisor of spiritual directors at the Institute for Spiritual Formation at Talbot School of Theology. She also works in the Student Ministries Department doing pastoral care and spiritual direction at Mariners Church in Irvine, CA.  She completed her MA in Spiritual Formation and Soul Care at Talbot School of Theology in 2005 and is currently in the Ignatian spiritual directors program at the Loyola Institute in Orange where she is specializing in Ignatian prayer.

Ellen Burany - ellen@metamorpha.com

Ellen Burany has recently moved from Southern California where she was working part time as a spiritual director and a supervisor of spiritual directors at a church in Orange County. She is currently serving full-time in a church in the Northern Virginia area as an Assistant Director of a young adult's ministry where she is excited to integrate spiritual formation into her ministry. Along with spiritual formation, Ellen's interests lie in spiritual direction, discipleship, developmental spirituality. Ellen received her Master's degree in Spiritual Formation and Soul Care from Talbot School of Theology.

Administration

Kim Levey

Kim Levey has a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in marketing from California State University, Fullerton. She is an accounting associate for Ocean Media, Inc. She is also the adminstrator for Share A Smile, Inc, which is a non-profit organization that provides orthodontics to underpriveledged children. Kim lives in southern california.

Technology

John Daharsh - Metamorpha.com Webmaster

John Daharsh is the technical expert behind metamorpha.com. He lives in Northern Colorado with his wife Nancy and their 4 children. John owns Western Ascent Inc - a web development company - and works full-time as the CEO and lead software engineer. You can reach him with questions related to metamorpha.com at admin@metamorpha.com.

John has a background in youth ministry as well as technology and business.