Pastor Jason Bishop became a Christian at the age of 16 while living in Vancouver, Washington. His conversion experience was a radical one, during his early teenage years he had begun to hang out with the wrong crowd and his life seemed to be all about meeting his needs and just trying to find his mark in the world. As life began to seem more and more meaningless, suddenly his mother had him attend a local church youth camp. At the camp the unexpected happened! Jason, who had been opposed to the idea of really living for God and having a close relationship with Jesus, became a Christian.

        It all happened on the last night of the camp when everyone around him began to pray and he was off to the side mocking the Christians praying around him. As he stood there with his friend he suddenly heard a voice as clear as day say to him “Jason, Come out to the Cross”. Thinking his friend had said it, he told him to quit joking around after a few more times of hearing the same voice say “Jason, Come out to the Cross”. He decided that enough was enough and so he made his way out the door and down the stairs to the old wooden cross that laid in the middle of the open muddy field. As he approached it, a strange sense of peace and comfort began to overwhelm him and suddenly he realized he was face down in the mud only feet from the cross! He saw a vision of Jesus Christ who told him to quit running from the truth and from a relationship with Him. All of the pain and hurt he had felt in his life at that moment seemed to fade away and he asked Christ to come into his life and to help him be the person that Jesus desired him to be. All at the same time he also felt Jesus telling him that just like he lived completely for the world that he would now live completely for God as a full time minister of the Gospel; which Jason said he'd gladly accepted.

        As he left the cross that day, he knew his life would never be the same. Only days after dedicating his life to the Lord he attended an Inner-City Pentecostal church in Portland (Portland Metro Assembly of God) with his mother. As he sat in the old tattered church, the Pastor in the middle of his sermon looked straight at him and said “God has called you to be a pastor and he wants me to mentor you”. This was a no-brainer for Jason who had no real Christian mentor in his life at the time, other than his mother. So for the next 3 years he worked side by side with Pastor James M. Boyd in the Inner-City of Portland learning how to be a servant, how to preach, how to teach, how to administrate, how to pray, how to read the bible, how to witness, and numerous other necessary Christian qualities that a pastor must posses. Pastor Boyd then pointed out to Jason that there was a great Christian College in Kirkland, Washington. Were he could study to be a pastor and even possibly play soccer. So he went and visited, trying out for the college soccer team. He made the team and received a scholarship to attend in the fall.

         Jason Bishop went to Northwest College all four years and graduated in the spring of 2002 with a Bachelors in Pastoral Ministries. While at Northwest, Jason played four years of college soccer, was the Vice President of Student Outreach Ministries for ASB, ran Portland Project inner-city outreaches, was nominated the Outstanding Male Student of the Year for 2002, and graduated with Honors as part of the Sigma Chi Pi Honor Society. However, all of these things were nothing compared to the marriage he entered into on August 5th 2000 with his beautiful wife, Heather M. Bishop, who was his high school sweetheart.

        Even before graduating from Northwest College, Jason Bishop became the Youth Pastor at North Thurston Life Center, a church of about 170 people (in Olympia, Washington) in March of 2002. He was the youth pastor there for four years and saw God do many great things. The youth had started with about 8-10 students on a weekly bases, who where broken and hurting, and by the time they left they were seeing between 65-75 students on a weekly bases involved in their youth services and about 25-40 involved in youth small groups. While at North Thurston Life Center, Pastor Jason and Heather also had an amazing addition to their family with the birth of their son, Titus Myles Bishop, on May 17 th 2005. Then in March of 2006 Pastor Jason and his family felt the strong call of God to move to Kalispell, Montana to be the new Senior High Youth Pastors here at Christian Center. They are extremely excited about all that God has in-store for the IMPACT Youth Ministries and the many years of effective ministry that lie ahead.