MONTE's BIO:
Monte has been Christian since the age of 10. He preached his 1st sermon at age 11 to his mom & dad, and two deacons in his small church in California. He ran to his bedroom crying after his sermon on the Prodigal Son because "nobody got saved." The call on his life was evident as he served in the youth ministry at that same church upon returning home after college. Since then, he served as a Youth Pastor and Elder. His heart beats for missions and particularly, exposing young people to the wonders of God's love, mercy, and grace. He received much of his training from Moody Bible Institute.

Vocationally, Monte Montemayor has been selling in the technology industry for 25 years with successful careers at IBM, Silicon Graphics, Corel and Microsoft. His sales experience lies in managing highly complicated, competitive, fast paced multi-national firms such as Nike, Levi Strauss, McKesson and Accenture while his sales management career has focused on driving maximum results from highly agile high-performance sales organizations. Currently Monte serves as the Director of Vendor Sales & Ops for Microsoft's Small Medium Business division where he runs a team of Inside Tele Sales Vendors selling the Microsoft Server and Desktop solution stack. Monte holds his 1st Degree Black Belt in Shudokan Karate, is a certified Kickboxing Instructor, certified Pilates Instructor and has recently served on the Board of Directors for Operation Home Front WA, Matter of Truth Ministries, and The International Ballet Theater. He enjoys Motorcycle racing or any form of entertainment that requires speed and precision teaming.

TESTIMONY:
My father was tragically injured in an auto accident, which left him in a coma for nearly 5 months. He had severe burns over most of his body, a broken neck, back and many bones. It was an act of Mercy and Love that my father woke up, though he had nearly 100% amnesia. Over the next summer, we began to attend a small church in our city where we were introduced to the Lord. In college I experienced a Spiritual Awakening which resulted in a serious commitment to God's word and surrender of my life, will, and dreams to His purposes. He moved to WA State around 1995 when he began to serve in Youth Ministry and later as an Elder of the church. As one of the overseers of the Missions program, Monte has been able to serve in Mexico many times, Nicaragua, Venezuela and in April 2011 traveled to Cambodia. Monte's passion now burns for the Youth of the World. It is his goal for Jesus to become REAL in the lives of today's teens. His life verse is Ezra 7:10

"For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the LORD, and to practice it, and to teach His statues and ordinance in Israel"