A Moment With Pastor Fred

What a joy to hear Matt Moore preach today. This is Matt’s first time doing such!  I’m so glad he can do so with family and friends.  Matt and Katherine have been part of our congregation for just over a year now. They serve faithfully on our praise team. She is looking now for a medical residency;  he is a paramedic. Matt is also taking Bible classes online at Liberty University as he is open to what God might be calling him to do in the future. When his sensitivity to ministry was made known, we wanted to encourage him by giving him this opportunity. 

We as a church are given the task of promoting each other to use the gifts God has given.  It is churches that nurture preachers – not Bible colleges or seminaries. We have had this occasion before – young men like Scott Allison (who now pastors in PA); Amos Peck (who just received his Th.M at Southern Seminary and is pursing a church ministry); Josh Bell (our missionary to Senegal); and David Froman (who serves as a worship pastor).  And let’s not forget Flo Hicks who served Christ in Alaska for 40 years – sent out from HBC. No doubt Matt will be a little nervous.  Pray for him. He has studied hard.

I will forever be indebted to youth pastors and my home church who provided me such opportunities to practice on people as we are giving to Matt today.  Only eternity will reveal how we at HBC contributed to a worldwide ministry of developing and maturing young men and women for gospel ministry.  May their tribe increase.