Statement of Faith

      I became a Christian in January 1986 while living in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Lord had been working powerfully on me for four years by that point. When I moved to Vegas God had me isolated from people working the third shift. There was no one to talk to but Him. So I learned to talk to God while I walked my security routes at night. He kept putting the right people in my path who would witness to me. He also put the perfect witnessing track in front of me one evening. I was walking guard duty and kicked a piece of paper. I picked it up and read it. It was the most unique tract I had ever read, but exactly written to make the point about salvation the way I needed to hear it. The Lord had also been using the Church Sunday School bus ministry of a local congregation to lead me to the right church to hear the gospel in plain simple truth.  It was during a revival at that church that I finally accepted the Lord as my personal Lord and Savior. It was very interesting at that time to look back and realize the spiritual warfare that had been fought over me. I am so glad God won. At that point the Bible became alive to me.

       Once I had a relationship with the Lord I could clearly hear the call to ministry.  By February of 1986 I had accepted the call to Christian ministry and was on my way to South Carolina to begin my college training for ministry. After two years at North Greenville College and two years at Missouri Baptist College I started my Master of Divinity course work which I completed in December 1994. During those years of schooling I also worked at many different Baptist Churches in many different capacities of ministry including, but not limited to, Sunday School teaching (all ages), Children’s church, Teaching Wednesday and Sunday night services, pulpit supply, and an interim pastorate.

       In 1992 I began my ministry to unuiversity students when I began working at Missouri Baptist University. I have been able to mentor students both from Missouri Baptist University and Covenant Theological Seminar as I worked as Director of Public Safety and Director of Housekeeping. I was able to help prepare many of these men who worked for me for the ministry in the church. We learned about honest work, people skills, and how to use Christian principles to guide us through our work. I reminded my workers often, if they could not succeed in housekeeping or security using Christian principles, they would never make it as they ministered to the church.

      I further ministered, and continue to minister, to college students in my classroom as I began each class with prayer and sharing God’s love, mercy, healing and holiness as they apply in these prayer times.

       I try to daily minister to my family by being a godly husband and father. I teach my children about God and his love for us through his son Jesus Christ. We have been active members of our local church for the past 15 years working with children ministries and teaching the adult Sunday School class for over 8 years.

All this is to say, that as a Christian, Christ is the center of my life both in my home, in my employment, and in all other areas of my life.

Sincerely,

Mark A. Kimzey