Our pastor, elders & deacons

Pastor

Gary Wagner

Gary helped bring Reformed Heritage Church (in San Jose) to life in 1998 and has served as its pastor since 2004. Gary has been married for 54 years to Christa and they have five wonderful children, eight grandchildren, and three great grandchildren.

He was brought to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ in 1975, through the ministry of the late Rev. Rousas Rushdoony and has had a hunger ever since to serve the Lord, by bringing every area of his life and culture into submission to Him.

Elder

Ben Loomis

Ben Loomis has been a part of RHC since the early days. He has worked on the recording and distribution of sermons and lectures for RHC and related activities, and seeks to use technology to spread Godly messages far and wide, as well as helping God’s people through his role as elder. Ben lives in Sunnyvale and works as a software engineer.

Elder

Ken Raab

Ken has been an elder at Reformed Heritage Church since 2025 and previously served as a deacon. He is a former division 1 college wrestler and an industrial engineer by trade. He is currently the president of Sonic Manufacturing Technologies, an electronic manufacturing services company that he co-founded in 1996.

He is faithfully supported by Diemanh, his wife of 20 years. They have 3 daughters, 2 sons, and 16 dogs. The happiest day of his life was the day God walked him off the street and through the doors of Reformed Heritage Church.

Deacon

Alejandro DeLeigh

Though raised in the Roman Catholic tradition, Alejandro’s life was fundamentally transformed at the age of 17 during a visit to a Presbyterian church in Mexico. It was there, through the daily reading of Scripture, that he truly encountered the gospel. He surrendered his life to Christ after being deeply convicted by the words of John 14:6:

“Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.’”

Since that pivotal moment, Alejandro has dedicated himself to serving the local church in various capacities. In 2018, he and his family relocated to California and found a spiritual home at RHC, where he was recently ordained to the office of Deacon, joyfully serving the temporal and spiritual needs of the congregation.

Deacon

John Jovalusky

John Jovalusky is an engineer in the semiconductor industry. He and his wife, Kara, moved to San Jose from Escondido, California, in 2004. John and Kara began attending Reformed Heritage Church (RHC) in 2007 and have been members since 2008.

John loves to teach about the Christian faith and his Lord, Jesus Christ, and has been teaching at RHC since 2012. He is also a Deacon at RHC.

Dr. Jo Loomis

Mother of four and grandmother of six, Jo has been a member of Reformed Heritage Church since 1998. Jo is a family nurse practitioner and recently retired college professor who homeschooled her own children and is now homeschooling her Texas grandchildren via Zoom when she’s not baking bread.