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Honoring the Co-founder -Larry Tajon

Lead Pastor and Co-Founder of New Beginnings Church
From: May 31, 2004-September 2025

Pastor Larry was the  Lead Pastor of New Beginnings Church along with his wife Maria  for 21yrs.  Pastor Larry's heart for God and for His people along with  his bold preaching style combined with his sense of humor will be missed.
Pastor Larry has entered into his reward and he will be greatly missed but never forgotten by his church.  We love you!

Maria Tajon
Lead Pastor

Pastor Maria is a passionate about raising up people young and old, in the power of God and  also has a  a deep desire to see God's people healed, delivered, and walking in their God given destiny.
 With a prophetic edge and her love for the Word of God each time she speaks you are guaranteed to leave with new revelation and tools for everyday living.
Pastor Maria's uses her training gift and when she teaches, she also preaches and will typically use object lessons that tend to drive the message home.
Her administration gift and her love for people go hand in hand, and you will always catch her behind the scenes making things happen.  
She also has a heart to see women of all ages healed, and  loves to host conferences annually, where women from everywhere gather to experience healing and the miracle power of God.  This year Pastor is praying about adding a Men's conference where men can come and experience a new found freedom in God.
Matt Tajon


Matt Tajon

Worship Director and Associate Pastor

Matt has a passion for worshipping our Lord in spirit and in truth, and his only desire is to lead people to Jesus through the gifts that he has been given.
Matt is a passionate teacher of the Word and his gift is without a doubt insightful as he is always sure to deliver a powerful, fresh and relatable perpesctive. He has a special ability to take scripture and show how it speaks directly into our daily lives.
His administrative gift, spirit of excellence and his prophetic edge are some of the reasons why the worship at New Beginnings is done without limitations.
On any given service you will find Matt behind the scenes, as well as behind the drums or perhaps even leading worship.
Matt is married to Erica and they have a beautiful four year old baby girl.

Diana Garcia

Youth Pastor

Diana has a heart and love for kids of all ages including youth.  She has over 25 years of experience as a Director in Children's Church and her and her husband have served over a decade in youth ministry,  Diana and her husband Prophet Fabien  enjoy making the youth experience both powerful and fun.
They believe in winning souls for the kingdom and use a prophetic edge to bring the Bible to life. 

Diana and Fabien both serve on the ministry team at New Beginnings and church council.

Laura Hernandez

Kids Church Overseer

Laura has over 10 years of experience working with kids of all ages.  When children of all ages meet Laura they immediately connect and love her.
Whether  In the Toddler, infant or kids church classes,  our kids are taught to worship the Lord, pray expecting miracles and to know God. Each classroom experience is designed to be fun filled and exciting.
Laura also trains up all lead teachers and assistants for this area and her love for children and her creative, fun personality filters in to every classroom experience.  Laura is married to Rueben and they own their own Pest Control Business that serves our community

Ladawn Zleisy
Toddle Coordinator

Ladawn is married to Cory and they have five children. Although She is new to the team, she has years of experience as a wonderful mom raising up Godly children and serving in our kids church.  Ladawn is a homeschool mom and has a passion for children of all ages to learn about God.  Her gentle, fun and creative approach to our babies is a winning combination and all of the teachers in the Infant class have the same spirit.
Here at New Beginnings our infants will worship as soon as they can hold a little flag. They are also introduced and learn about the Lord with puppets, tv clips, extra LARGE story books or in our baby bible songs.