Pastor Nathan Morton

Early Life

The year was 1966, my parents were pastoring in Fairfield, California, and there I arrived in February. My mother and father were very diligent to raise my brother and I to do the right things in life. It was in Stockton, California that I received the born again experience. At 8 or 9 years old I repented of my sins, received the Holy Ghost speaking with tongues and was baptized in Jesus’ name.

I never looked back. For one thing, Mom’s home was a consecrated home, and church life wasn’t an elective. Sure, I made my share of mistakes, prone to all the human failings, but my course was set. Living for God was my magnificent obsession! In 1984 I graduated high school, then graduated Christian Life College, in 1988.

The Wife And Kids

In all of this, I was not too busy or consecrated to find time for romance! Kristi Claborn, whom we all call KC, was always around in those growing up years. Just the goofy girl with the eye glasses too thick. Whoa, whoa, whoa, did things change when she became a teenager! Who was this luminescent beauty?

So here we are today, married since February 1989 (yes, February has been a good month for me) with 3 fantastic kids: Drew, Gentry and Alayna. She and the kids have been there through it all! Five years assisting Bishop Vaughn Morton in Truth Tabernacle, Fresno California; 4 years traveling as an evangelist; and then, April of 1996, we landed here in Chico. My strong towers, my wife and kids. Right in the thick of the work, building it up stone upon stone. 

Ministerial Background

In high school I knew I wanted to be active doing the work of God, but my call to the pulpit ministry was gradual. No blinding light and voice from heaven, just getting busy, and then God opened the doors. I entered full time ministry in 1986 on youth staff at Christian Life Center, Stockton, California.

In 1987, I began full time assistant ministry at Truth Tabernacle, Fresno, California. This began eminent years of ministerial formation for me. Truth Tabernacle is our home church, yet I am very thankful and ever mindful for all of the instrumental people who marked my life along the way.

So here we are today, with Truth Church Chico, the city that captured our hearts. These saints of God in TC are an exceptional church family! The right mix of progressive Apostolic without compromise, revival minded, Biblically sound, with reaching a lost world at the center of their hearts. God has blessed us!

Lead on Lord!