Guy Harrison has been fellowshipping with the Community Church of the Santa Ynez Valley family since early 2007. A California native, Guy was born in Santa Monica and moved to Hawaii with his family when he was 8 years old. Honolulu proved to be an escape from the smog and traffic of the Los Angeles area.  Although it was not as perfect as one would imagine, Guy found the Hawaiian Islands to be beautiful, green all year, and a place which gave him the opportunity to develop friendships with people from many different cultures. 

The first believer in his immediate family, Guy became a Christian as a young adult.  He had Christian friends in high school and remembers saying a salvation prayer in the 9^th grade but, looking back, he does not believe that early confession of Christ as Savior was a true conversion.  He did not experience life change afterwards and did not identify with the things of God throughout his teens, but he did believe there was a God. 

The Lord led him to Himself through the study of Bible prophecy.  At age 22, Guy, exhausted from a particularly grueling night of studying and a day of taking his real estate exam, walked into the living room and turned on HBO, which was playing the movie “The Late, Great Planet Earth” showing the Hawaiian volcano Kilauea depicted as the Lake of Fire.  Guy jokes, “HBO saves people!”, when he recalls how amazed he was at the idea that a book could predict the future and say things that nobody could know unless God Himself had written it. The prophecies of scripture were so specific that heaven must be true and hell must be a real place.

With no real Christian friends to turn to, Guy spent the next four months in fear of dying and going to hell.  He visited local Christian bookstores around Honolulu to talk to people who would listen and provide information.  A friend came to visit one night and Guy began to share what had occurred and what he was discovering about prophecy proving the existence of God.  As Guy explained, the friend nodded and urged him to continue until he

finally exclaimed, “I don’t believe it!  Guy has seen The Light!”  Guy’s friend was a “closet Christian” from a Christian family with a mother who played piano at the local conservative Baptist church.  A week before Christmas, Guy was invited to go to church with the family. Impressed, he shared with his friend’s father: “If this is real, and I believe it is, there is nothing more important!”  The father replied, “If this is your attitude, you are saved.”   

Guy developed an appetite for Bible study and enrolled at “International College,” a Bible college, when he was just a few months old in the Lord.  He found conversion to have a strange effect on his childhood friends who had loved spending time at his house, the neighborhood hangout.  Guy kept talking about the Bible and soon his friends stopped dropping by.   

Guy transferred to Masters College and earned a degree in Biblical Counseling and Bible Exposition.  When he finishes his graduate program thesis, he will have a Masters Degree in Biblical Counseling. His college experience was both spiritually and intellectually satisfying and he looks back on the years spent at Masters quite fondly, but he also loves his new hometown of Solvang.  Guy became acquainted with the area while frequently visiting a close friend from college, and became attracted to the beautiful, rural Santa Ynez Valley. Guy’s mother lives in the local area and he has a sister in Maui.

Guy is an investor who has been active in real estate and insurance products.  He loves music, going to concerts, reading, learning, and the study of the Word.  Guy says with conviction, “This is the church for me in this Valley because there is a commitment to the scripture. Guy’s favorite book of the Bible would probably be Romans or Ephesians: Romans because it teaches the doctrine of Salvation so clearly, and Ephesians because it teaches believers of all that they possess in Christ.