Kevin Cathey

Elder

Kevin grew up outside Chicago, IL in a little town called Wheaton. He landed in California after getting a software engineering job with Apple during college at University of Illinois, and has been with the company ever since. It was during this transition to California that Kevin connected his family’s faith foundations to his own heart after a coworker challenged his faith. This launched Kevin into a journey to understand the heart of the Gospel, and he first heart the word “grace": that God is the one who initiates with us and we do not work for our salvation.

Kevin married his high school sweetheart Leslie and they both joined Garden City in its early weeks. They adopted their first child, their son Andrew, from South Korea in 2017. And in the fall of 2021, added their biological daughter Megan to the family.

When not building Apple products, Kevin loves dating his wife, watching monster movies with his son and eating BBQ, holding his daughter and talking to her nonstop in baby babble, staying away from computers to do woodworking and home projects, and studying the Word like an engineer.

Kevin is passionate about seeing each person in the Silicon Valley find joy in their Kingdom role in the global mission of the church.