Pastor Jacob Aranza

For more than 25 years Jacob Aranza was a youth communicator speaking to millions of students around the world.  He has been a guest speaker with Billy Graham, Focus on the Family, Promise Keepers and Youth for Christ.  He is the former Chaplin for the New Orleans Saints and a best selling author with over 250,000 books in print. 

In 1998, Jacob and his wife, Michelle, founded Our Savior’s Church in Broussard, Louisiana which has now expanded to additional campuses in Lafayette and Opelousas, Louisiana.  They have been instrumental in planting churches throughout the Gulf Coast Region and currently oversee ten churches.  Jacob and Michelle were married in 1982 and have six children; five sons and one daughter.