Kent and Cathy Larson have been involved in ministry for over 40 years. Their experience includes youth ministry, inner-city ministry, overseas missions, children’s ministry, inner healing, pastoral counseling, worship, intercession, prophetic/healing art, and worship dance.
They have been associate pastors at Vineyard Community Church in Laguna Niguel, California since 2000. Their primary oversight has been prayer and pastoral care. During this time they established HOPE – House of Prayer for Everyone, Vineyard Healing Rooms, Mercy Arts Community, and Mercy Transformation Center.
They currently oversee pastoral care which is under the Mercy Transformation Center, a comprehensive and collaborative resource for healing, counseling, recovery, and transformation. This includes physical healing prayer, heart healing and several other resources and training for transformation, maturity and relational skills. Mercy Transformation Center includes a team of compassionate and anointed pastors, counselors, and spiritual directors. These resources can be found at mercytransformation.com.
Their passion is providing a variety of resources to bring people into full transformation in Christ through a lifestyle of face-to-face encounter with the living presence of Jesus and through intergenerational community.
Much of what they do is based on their training and mentoring with Life Model Works (lifemodelworks.org) and The Immanuel Approach (immanuelapproach.com) since 2012.
Kent and Cathy are both certified Life Model Works trainers and have done 1000s of hours of heart healing ministry over the last 30 years.
They met in Pasadena while Kent was at Fuller Seminary (MDiv ’76) and were married in 1978. They have four adult children.