Patricia MacArthur Biography – Patricia MacArthur Wiki

Patricia MacArthur is the wife of John MacArthur, the pastor of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, Los Angeles. Her husband, pastor John MacArthur, was born on June 19, 1939, in Los Angeles, California, to Dr. John “Jack” MacArthur and Irene Dockendorf. He passed away on July 14, 2025 at age 86, his church announced.

“It is with both sadness and hope that the elders of Grace Community Church announce that Pastor John MacArthur has gone to be with the Lord after 56 years of faithful ministry,” the church’s website said. “Last week, Pastor John unexpectedly contracted pneumonia, and the Lord took him home on Monday, July 14.”

John MacArthur Wife Patricia MacArthur

Patricia MacArthur is the wife of Pastor John MacArthur. They married in August 1963. In a question and answer session at the 2011 Resolved Conference in Palm Springs, Pastor John revealed how he met his wife via Christian Post:

“I was looking for a woman who could be described in the way I described a godly woman … who came from a godly heritage … understanding my call for ministry, somebody who loved the Lord, who walked with the Lord,” he said.

Of course, “…who was also really cute and could cook, and have fun,” MacArthur added. “And I saw her (his wife Patricia); she kept coming to my house, because she was my sister’s friend.” But there was a problem. John called it a “small nuisance.”

“…It was a small nuisance to me that she was engaged … to somebody else … [But] I just saw in her … you know … I was looking for that …,” the pastor said. “I took her home from church one night, because her fiancé was away, at school …” But…“wait a minute, I was her Bible teacher also.”

“I was at college … I was involved in playing football, I would come on Sundays to teach” and she was a student. “I really think that God used that. I became spiritual source to her.”

John took her home “one more night.” And this time, he asked, “Hey, I understand you are having some anxieties about that guy…”

“There was a preliminary reality,” John added. “She had all the wedding invitations addressed or stamped in the car and couldn’t mail them. So she was extremely vulnerable. She was restrained from mailing the invitations for the wedding, which was a few weeks away, to this other guy…

“And I just said … honestly … I said, ‘I don’t know what the Lord is doing through this. You should know … your parents are all over you, your in-laws … mail these and mail these … you can’t do that.’ And I said, ‘Maybe, it’s because … hey … who knows the Lord might want you to marry … me,” John recalled. “So she married me.”

Patricia MacArthur Family

Patricia MacArthur and her husband, pastor John MacArthur, have four children: Matthew, Mark, Marcy and Melinda, as well as 15 grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.