Pastoral Staff
Lead Pastor / Evangelist:
Pastor Erik Pancho Tomambo
A Medical Doctor, Registered Nurse, & Business Owner by profession, Ptr Erik serves as Co-Pastor & Evangelist of YG NOW Church.
Ptr Erik encountered Jesus as Savior & Lord in 1986. God miraculously delivered him from alcoholism, spirit of pride & worldliness. He has since then, served as a youth leader, evangelist & church planter in the Philippines & the US. God has used him to bring souls to Christ, many of whom are now also serving as pastors & missionaries. Ptr Erik is married to Ptr Marilou and they have 3 wonderful children: (EJ) Erik Josiah, Elijah & Maranatha.
Co-Lead Pastor:
Pastor Marilou Isleta Tomambo
A Registered Nurse, Financial Rep, & Realtor by profession, now serving as Co-Pastor of YG NOW Church.
Ptr Marilou was a top notch student during her school days, with her life ruled by selfish ambitions for personal gain & glory, until she encountered Jesus as Lord & Master in 1984. Since then, she has served as children’s ministry teacher, worship leader, discipleship teacher & pastor. She truly loves the Lord & desires to see people grow in His word, capture God’s heart for the lost & obey Jesus’ Great Commission as true disciples.
Missions/Worship/Youth Pastor:
Elijah Isleta Tomambo
The son of Ptr Erik & Marilou, Elijah used to be self-absorbed, gratifying himself with the things of this world. His ambitions to gain success, money & all excluded God from his life. In 2019, God used a friend to share the Gospel to him where he understood God’s great love through Jesus’s suffering & death on the cross & believed in Him as Savior & Lord. Through Vision School, he captured God’s heart & vision. In 2021, he served as a student missionary in Egypt for 1 year & experienced God’s glorious power & deep love for the unreached people groups. He mentors youth & young adults in worship, prayer & discipleship to train them for spiritual leadership and missions in these end times.
MISSION AND MEDICAL MINISTRY (MnM) TEAM LEADER
LEONITA ANARNA CARUNGCONG, MD
Dr. Linnet, as she is fondly called, is from the Fresno Branch of Central California, and had been an anesthesiologist for the last 20 plus years. Her first encounter with our Lord Jesus Christ was at the age of 17 y/o during a spiritual revival event. But being young and without any spiritual mentor, she easily fell off the path our Lord Jesus laid out for her. She fully received our Lord Jesus as her Lord and Savior in 2010, and had been actively serving the HGFFA church and the community through the church board, women’s ministries, bible life groups, and outreach programs.
She attended Vision School in the Fall of 2019, went out for FO to Turkey to serve the Syrian Refugees in the Winter of 2020, attended the online Mission and Medical School in the Spring of 2020, and has been serving in the 1040 window nations with the MnM trips teams every summer and winter since then. She has fully captured God’s heart and love for the lost souls, and now serves as the Fresno leader for InterCP’s MnM Ministry, which is the core ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ, encouraging and inspiring medical as well as non-medical professionals to serve our God by teaching and preaching the gospel and healing the sick in the name of Jesus.