The Church of Christ at Kirkland

Meet our preacher at Kirkland:

Larry Haverstock

Larry Haverstock was born in 1952 and spent his early years in Hawthorne, California. Raised in the Roman Catholic church, he attended St. Joseph's Catholic school for grades 1 - 7. The family moved to Rolling Hills Estates, California in 1965. Larry then graduated from Miraleste High School in 1970. He joined the Army in Sept. of 1970, and volunteered for Airborne, Recondo, and Special Forces Ranger training as well as serving the military as a radio teletype operator and mail clerk.

While stationed at Fort Lewis in Tacoma, Washington, and keeping a personal vow, Larry read the entire Bible in the first five months of 1973 and was subsequently baptized into Christ by Leonard Woods of the Lakeview Church of Christ on February 11th, 1973. Encouraged by the fine saints there, he enrolled in the Bear Valley School of Preaching (now called the Bear Valley Bible Institute of Denver) and moved to Denver, Colorado so as to attend classes in September, 1973. Larry met Donna Jean Fox there one Sunday morning in a Bible class and, after completing Bear Valley's two year course, they married and moved to Kirkland, WA, to began 5 years of study with Lowell Williams of the Kirkland Church of Christ.

In 1976, Daryl Johnson and Larry were asked by the elders to manage the tape recording of all classes. Daryl wisely saw that "reel-to-reel" tapes had no future and suggested that all recording be done on the relatively new format of audio cassettes. They purchased equipment, rewired the building, began the task of recording and distributing all classes taught in Kirkland, an activity which continues to this day.