A Half-Century on De La Cruz Boulevard
North Valley Baptist Church sits on a six-acre campus at 3530 De La Cruz Boulevard in Santa Clara, California, the same city where Levi's Stadium crowds gather and the 49ers practice. The address is home to one of the largest independent Baptist congregations in the western United States, a flagship bus ministry that has carried more than 1.5 million riders since 1975, a fully accredited kindergarten-through-twelfth-grade school, a Bible college, a 24-hour Christian music radio station, and an annual National Youth Conference that draws young people from across the country.
The church traces its roots to 1975, when 75 people gathered to begin a new work. In March 1976, Dr. Jack Trieber accepted the pastorate of what was then a fledgling congregation of twenty-two in its first Sunday evening service. Under his leadership, the church has grown to the point that more than 4 million people have attended services and more than 80,000 have made professions of faith in Christ. The congregation has also followed Christ in believer's baptism more than 19,000 times.
Pastor Dr. Jack Trieber and His Family
Dr. Jack Trieber is described by the church as an enthusiastic, Bible-believing preacher with a message for this needy hour. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he came to Santa Clara in 1976 and has now served for nearly fifty years. He and his wife Cindie were married in 1972, and they have three children (Tiffany Thompson, Timothy, and Tabitha Fanara) and fourteen grandchildren.
Beyond the pulpit, Dr. Trieber is the founding president of Golden State Baptist College, started in 1996, and the host of a daily fifteen-minute radio broadcast called Revival Time, which now airs on more than 70 stations worldwide. He also hosts a weekly live broadcast on the church's own KNVBC: Revival Radio.
He is the author of several books, including The Blessings of the Lord, The Comforter Has Come, Counsel, Men Ought Always to Pray, Our Adversary, Principles of Stewardship, Truths for Teens, and Words to Live By, all available through the church's own publishing imprint.
What to Expect on Sunday and Wednesday
Visitors can step into the same schedule every week. Sunday School for all ages begins at 9:30 a.m. The Morning Service follows at 10:30 a.m., with an Evening Service at 6:00 p.m. On Wednesday evenings, the Midweek Service gathers at 6:30 p.m. The Wednesday gathering draws families and workers who want a midweek lift in the middle of long Bay Area weeks.
All three services are livestreamed on the church's app and on nvbc.tv, and the same broadcasts appear on Facebook Live and YouTube. Archived audio and video of every service are available going back many years, so newcomers can listen in before they ever step through the doors. The church also offers a dedicated Roku, Apple TV, and Amazon Fire channel through the Boxcast app.
Nursery care is provided for every service. Children from birth through age two are welcomed to the nurseries, and children from three years old through sixth grade are promoted into the age-appropriate children's programs known as Kidz' Town. Elementary-aged children enjoy children's church, children's choirs, and Patch the Pirate clubs. On Wednesday evenings, children through sixth grade gather for Patch the Pirate Clubs and Pastor's Summer Chums programs that include Bible lessons, Scripture memory, music, crafts, and snacks.
A shuttle ministry has operated for nearly two decades because of the unique parking situation at the main campus. Members are shuttled from a second lot to the church for every service.
The Bus Ministry: North Valley's Calling Card
The bus ministry is the ministry most people in the area associate with North Valley. Since 1975, dozens of bus routes have run up and down the streets of Santa Clara County each Sunday, bringing in a cumulative total of more than 1.5 million riders over the years. Tens of thousands of souls have been saved, lives changed, and entire families reached through this outreach. Visitors who live in the local area can request a bus pickup, and busministryworks.com encourages other congregations to keep their own bus ministries going.
Luke Flood, the bus director, is a North Valley product. He grew up in a Christian family, attended North Valley Baptist Schools from kindergarten through twelfth grade, and went on to earn both bachelor's and master's degrees at Golden State Baptist College before joining the church staff. He is responsible for seeing hundreds of people in church every week.
Sunday School for Every Stage of Life
More than one hundred adult Sunday school classes are offered each Sunday morning at 9:30 a.m., with teachers and rooms designed for nearly every life stage. Among the adult Bible classes are Crossroads (college-age, ages 18-27, led by Chris Fanara in Room 214 of the GSBC building), the Golden State Bible Class (for Golden State Baptist College students, led by Lankford Oxendine), the Single Purpose Bible Class (singles in the early phase of their careers, led by Mohfai and Christina Hussin), the Two Committed Couples Class (for engaged and young married couples, taught by Pastor and Mrs. Trieber), and a range of cultural and language-specific classes. Cultural classes include a Filipino Bible Class led by Tom and Christine Apusen, an Indian Bible Class led by Raj Matangi, a Spanish Ministry class under Josiah Gutierrez, and a Brazilian Bible Class co-led by Andrew and Joy Reimers and Thiago and Mrs. Alves.
Two large classes draw adults of all ages: the Lifeline Bible Class, established by Assistant Pastor Alvin Martinez to reach new Christians, averages more than 180 in attendance and offers an ASL interpreter; and the Tabernacle Bible Class, taught by Assistant Pastor John Evertson in the youth auditorium, features Christian fellowship, revival singing, and stirring Bible teaching. Fred Slye leads the Victory Bible Class (ages 30+) in the choir practice room, and Chad Ith teaches the Heritage Bible Class for seasoned adults ages 55 and up in the main auditorium lobby.
For those who want an extra hour of Bible teaching during the week, Assistant Pastor Alvin Martinez leads the Sunday Evening School of the Bible at 5:15 p.m. in the Commons Conference Room.
Children's Ministries from Eight Weeks Old to Sixth Grade
Children are welcomed starting at eight weeks old in the Kidz' Town nursery and preschool area. Sunday school classes meet for elementary-aged children every Sunday at 9:30 a.m. Children's church and children's choirs are offered during the morning service. The Wednesday Patch the Pirate Clubs and Pastor's Summer Chums programs continue the discipleship through sixth grade.
Youth Ministry and the National Youth Conference
The Youth Ministry is built around the conviction that teenagers are the hope of America and the world. Weekly Sunday school classes, youth training times, and teen soul-winning opportunities are joined by monthly activities around the Bay Area. The youth staff also hosts an annual teen camp, a Youth Extravaganza, and the National Youth Conference every June. The National Youth Conference, in its forty-third year, is the marquee event for the department and draws missionary speakers, college students, and youth groups from across the country. Past speakers have included active missionaries Ben Anglea (Madagascar), Jerry Wyatt (Tanzania), and Kevin Wynne (Mexico), along with Pastor Ricky Gravley of Rossville, Georgia, and Youth Pastor Elisha Swanson. The 2026 conference was held June 22-25. A dedicated NV Youth Conference app is available on iOS and Android.
Spanish, Filipino, and Other Language Ministries
North Valley's Spanish Ministry is one of the church's fastest-growing outreach arms. Spanish Sunday School and services are held under Spanish Pastor Josiah Gutierrez at 941 Clyde Avenue, and the Spanish services are livestreamed and archived in the same way as the English services. The Spanish ministry offers classes for all ages and is a primary place where the broader community first connects with the church.
Tom Apusen, the Filipino Pastor, has been on staff since 1993 and leads the Filipino Bible Class on Sunday mornings. He also oversees the church's transportation departments. The church operates ministries to the deaf, the mentally handicapped, and ten retirement homes, and runs thriving Sunday school classes for Spanish-speakers, Filipinos, and Indians. The Indian Bible Class, taught by deacon Raj Matangi, has been a fixture for more than a decade.
North Valley Baptist Schools and Golden State Baptist College
Founded in 1977, North Valley Baptist Schools offers a Bible-based education from kindergarten through twelfth grade, with many students moving on through the church's own college. The schools are housed on the same campus complex and share faculty, music programs, and student life with Golden State Baptist College.
Golden State Baptist College, established in 1996, exists to train the next generation of preachers, evangelists, missionaries, and Christian workers. Students can pursue bachelor's and master's degrees, and many of the church's current staff, including Luke Flood, Caleb Galvan, and Mike Moyer, are GSBC alumni. The college also produces a spring music concert each year that is archived alongside the church's services.
North Valley Publications and the North Valley Bookstore
The church operates its own publishing imprint, North Valley Publications, which produces music CDs, books, pamphlets, and the church hymnal Songs & Hymns from the Heart. The catalog includes a long shelf of preaching and devotional material by Dr. Trieber and by other pastors in the fellowship. The North Valley Bookstore, run out of the campus, makes these materials available along with outside Christian literature. The Music Department of the church is anchored by Lead Pianist Caleb Galvan, who also serves as a music professor at GSBC.
KNVBC Revival Radio and Revival Time
KNVBC: Revival Radio is a 24-hour conservative Christian music and teaching station, with a dedicated app for Apple and Android devices. Listeners can hear live, on-demand programs, vote on favorite songs, and view song history. In addition to the music stream, Dr. Trieber's daily fifteen-minute Revival Time broadcast airs on more than 70 stations worldwide, and the church also produces two long-running podcasts. The Preach the Bible: Classics Podcast features historic preaching, and the NVBC Preaching Podcast offers every sermon preached from the pulpit.
Heritage Hallways, Conferences, and Other Ministries
A 3D walkthrough of the Heritage Hallways allows visitors to virtually tour fifty-plus years of church history, with embedded videos highlighting major milestones. Security workers are on duty at every function to help with the immense weekly crowds, and the church runs organized soul-winning and visitation groups throughout the week. Other ministries include the Lifeline Bible Class, the Sunday Evening School of the Bible, the annual Pastors' and Workers' Conference, and summer children's programming.
Beliefs and Doctrinal Statement
North Valley Baptist Church describes itself as an independent, fundamental, Baptist church. The doctrinal statement, posted in full, affirms the verbal, plenary, God-breathed inspiration of the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, and names the King James Version as the only English translation used in the church's ministry. The church teaches the Trinity, the deity and bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, the sinfulness of man, salvation by grace through faith, the eternal security of the believer, the priesthood of Christ, the autonomy of the local church, the symbolic ordinances of water baptism and the Lord's Supper, the personal and imminent return of Christ for His church before a seven-year tribulation, the bodily resurrection of the dead, the conscious eternal punishment of the unsaved, the personality of Satan, the six-literal-days creation of the universe, the equal sovereignty of the home, the church, and the state under God, the biblical definition of marriage, the sanctity of life from conception, and the great commission given to every local church.
On social issues the church's statement is equally explicit: any form of homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, bestiality, incest, fornication, adultery, and pornography is a sinful perversion of God's original intent for physical relationships; abortion is the unjustified, inexcusable taking of unborn human life; and divorced and remarried persons may serve but are not considered for the offices of pastor or deacon.
On giving, the church teaches the tithe as a basis for Christian giving and encourages additional sacrificial, cheerful offerings to support the church, those in need, and the spread of the Gospel. The doctrinal statement concludes by affirming that the Bible itself is the sole and final source of all that the church believes.
Getting to the Church and Visiting
From Highway 101, exit at Montague Expressway, turn right at the second light onto De La Cruz Boulevard, and the church is on the right. From Highway 880, exit at Montague Expressway and head west 2.5 miles to De La Cruz Boulevard, then turn left; the church is on the right. From Highway 680, exit at Montague Expressway and head west 4.5 miles to De La Cruz Boulevard, then turn left; the church is on the right.
First-time visitors can request a pastoral visit by sending a note through the contact form or calling the church office at (408) 988-8881. Spanish-speaking visitors can request bus pickup through the same form, and the church operates a shuttle service from a nearby lot to the main campus because of limited parking. Special events (weddings, funerals, rehearsal dinners, bridal showers) are limited to church members' use of the facilities because of the volume of weekly ministry activity.
Giving is available online through the church's secure portal, with options for one-time gifts, recurring weekly or monthly gifts, and stock gifts. Mailing a gift to the church address is also welcomed.
Where to Find Everything
The church office can be reached at (408) 988-8881. Golden State Baptist College's line is (408) 988-8551. North Valley Baptist Schools can be reached at (408) 988-8883. The main email is info@nvbc.org. The North Valley family of ministries includes Golden State Baptist College, KNVBC Revival Radio, North Valley Publications, North Valley Baptist Schools, the Help4Today devotional, the NVBC.tv livestream, and the Bus Ministry Works resource. The official NVBC app is available for Apple devices, and the KNVBC app is available for both Apple and Android. The church is on Facebook (NorthValley), Instagram (northvalleybaptist), YouTube (NorthValleyBaptistChurch), and X (nvbc_org).