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  Temporary Interim Pastor :After nearly 18 years of dedication and devotion to our church, Pastor Mark has left us for a Senior Pastor position in Moline, Illinois at Homewood Evangelical Free Church. As much as we will dearly miss our pastor, we know he is going according to God's greater plans for him! In the meantime, we'll be utilizing interim pastors who will fill the pulpit until such time a new pastor is chosen.
He has served as a pastor from
1967 to 2003 and as a chaplain in the U.S. Army Reserves from 1970 to 1999. His final tour of duty was as the (IMA) III CORPS
chaplain responsible for the mobilization of all National Guard and Reserve Chaplains and Chaplain Assistants West of the
Mississippi.
 Debbi Willis became our Church Administrative Assistant in May 2006. Attending our church since Easter of 1997, when Debbi and her husband Doug, who at that time were separated, were invited by Glen & Peggy Somerville to attend Easter Service, came to Faith Bible and quickly realized this was what was missing in their marriage woes. They reconciled that very afternoon. Debbi had the extreme peace of feeling like she'd finally come "home." They became active soon after and became members in February 1998. Debbi was baptized Easter 1998, one year after they had arrived at the church, as Easter has always been a time of rebirth for her, their marriage had been reborn with the Lord then. Debbi brings to us many skills from a wide variety of experiences from sales, retail management, auto parts & mechanic experience, travel, as well as extensive drug and alcohol rehab experience. She was even a Scoutmaster in the Boy Scouts for 10 years (and Cubs for 5 before that!) and is still an active travel agent in her "spare time." In July 2007, Debbi completed her dream of a college degree by graduating from Keiser University with a degree in Paralegal Studies with honors. Debbi and her husband Doug, have been married since November 1993 and she has an adult son, Kenn. In 2008, Debbi was diagnosed with MS (Multiple Sclerosis) and has learned how to manage it with minimal medication at this point but refuses to let it get her down. She counts the inundations of prayer as her greatest blessing in dealing with this disease and gives God great praise for having taught her great endurance. Besides being passionate about auto racing (Sprint Cars, NHRA & NASCAR), Debbi is also a writer and reporter for an internet racing site which sometimes takes her to various NASCAR events. Besides her job at the church, Debbi still maintains a part-time homebased Travel Agency, heads up several advisory committees at Manatee Technical Institute for travel & marketing and does Wedding Planning as well as breeds German Shepherds. Debbi's other hobbies are web-building, reading, travel, gardening, butterflies, photography and the outdoors (when she is able).
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Currently, meet Dr. Harry L. Morgan: Harry was born in 1947 and was born again in 1970 during the Asbury Revival
in Wilmore, Kentucky. Though he grew up in the church, was religious, even stayed in a monastery for two months and served
in church leadership since the age of 14, he was not a Christian until the age of 22 through his studies in the book of Romans.
