Brandon Cook originally hails (proudly) from Birmingham, Alabama.  He studied at Wheaton College outside of Chicago, Jerusalem University College in Israel, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Brandeis University outside of Boston.  He then received his Master of Studies in Hellenistic Judaism from Oxford University in England.  Before moving to California in May 2006, he worked as a storyteller, singing songs and telling stories to children who were sometimes interested but mostly just enjoyed his monkey puppet, Herbal.   

He and his beautiful wife, Rebecca, were married in October 2007.  They are passionate about God’s work of salvation in people’s lives, having experienced the transformational power of God’s love in their own.  They believe that God’s love destroys fear and then calls us into loving others with a fullness and abundance impossible outside of Him, in which we are transformed in the process of loving others.