ABOUT US
Stephen Jenney
Senior Pastor
Pastor Stephen Jenney grew up in Portage, MI. As a child growing up in the Catholic church, he always wondered what the truth of God was but never found adequate answers for his ongoing questions about life after death. During high school, he began actively searching for answers about God. When looking more into what the Bible taught, he found a book about the end times that presented what the Bible taught of God's plan of salvation. At that moment, he realized that no other book, philosophy or religion could give such a complete answer to his lifelong question. He acknowledged his sin and his need for salvation and he called upon Christ to be his Savior from sin and its penalty.
After graduating from high school, Stephen moved to the Chicago area to attend a technical college with a friend. One morning, God woke him up with the conviction that he needed to go to church. After his salvation, he prayed that God would lead him to a church that was not full of extra traditions but based on the Bible alone. He decided to try a Baptist church that he had been passing on the way to the school. Upon attending that church, he soon realized that everything they taught was straight out of the Scriptures. God gave Stephen an overwhelming peace at that church and began to work in his heart about becoming a pastor.
From Chicago, God led Stephen to Ambassador Baptist College in Shelby, NC where the desire grew in his heart to be involved in church planting. After graduating college, Stephen moved to North Tonawanda, NY to serve at Shalom Baptist Church. In November of 2013, he married his wife Charity whom he had met in college. God called him and his family to plant a church in Pinon Hills, CA where they started Shepherd's Call Baptist Church. In April 2024 Stephen started as the interim Pastor of Desert Streams Baptist Church and in May, was voted in as Pastor. God has blessed them with three little boys and one girl and their family is thrilled to be in the High Desert of Southern California to reach people with the Gospel of Jesus.
CESAR PEREZ
Spanish Pastor
Brother Cesar has been a member of Desert Streams Baptist Church since 2019. He and his wife first visited our church during a marriage retreat. Since then, they have been faithfully serving here at Desert Streams. In November 2020, he began a Spanish Bible Study on Thursday nights and eventually moved to a full service on Sunday mornings at 9:30am. Brother Cesar is a gifted preacher and has a heart for souls. He and his wife, Nahilet, have 3 children, Cesar Jr., Eric, Kairos and Oliver.