"85% of professing Christians have never won a soul to Christ."
Pastor Rick Gaston
2 days ago
Our Mission Statement
It is our goal and determination to establish local Independent Baptist Churches and to train national pastors and laymen to reach their own people on islands throughout the West Indies. The first island that we will be working on, St. Barthelemy, has never had the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Our History
I accepted Christ as my Savior on March 4, 1993 at Winkler Rd. Baptist Church. This is the same church my wife, Kami grew up in and where she was saved at the age of 5. I served in the Air Force from 1993-1997 and attended college for 2 years while training to be a doctor. I surrendered my life to preach the Gospel in 1996 and left the Air Force in 1997 to enter full-time ministry. After I left the military, I trained and worked for Dr. Jim Brown who pastored in Carthage, Missouri. Dr. Brown started the Crossroads Baptist Bible Institute which I attended for 4 years while training under him. Here I taught Sunday school, directed and preached in Junior Church, preached in a nursing home, and was a bus captain and driver. God moved my family in 2002 to work in a full-time staff position for Pastor Jerry George in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. I was the bus director, bus ministry youth director, Junior Church director, Christian school teacher, and sports coach. God then moved our family to Ft. Myers, Florida, to work for Pastor Don Strange. It was here that I was a bus captain and driver, teen director, juvenile detention preacher, SS teacher, and Junior Church worker. After much prayer, God led my family to surrender in February 2006 to the mission field of the West Indies to start on the island of St. Barthelemy. We were accepted as missionaries with Macedonia World Baptist Missions in April 2006 and started full-time deputation on July 20, 2006.
Why St. Barthelemy?
St. Barthelemy is a small island located in the West Indies that is owned by France. This 8 1/2 sq. mile island has a population of 8,000 people where there is no missionary or any Baptist churches. As far as I have researched, the Gospel has never been preached on this island. There are 3 Catholic churches and an Angilcan church located here but most islanders do not attend any services. I have the unusual opportunity to obtain dual citizenship which opens the entire French West Indies Islands to us to be able to preach and live without restrictions of VISAS. It is our plan to bring the Gospel to every home on the island and we believe this can be done in a 3-year time period. We have begun now to ask the Lord to give us a man who will get saved and surrender to preach that we can begin to train along side of us from the very beginning. We would appreciate your consideration in supporting the Gimenez family in reaching the West Indies for Christ.
Our Pastor's Recommendation
Some years ago I started praying for our young people that God would call some to preach, some to be missionaries and all to be witnesses for Christ. The couple that I would like to introduce to you is one answer of that prayer. Patrick and Kami Gimenez have surrendered to be missionaries in the West Indies. Kami was raised in our church and was led to the Lord at an early age by my secretary. The family that she was raised in still comes to this church. Patrick came to know the Lord while still in high school, having been led to the Lord by our Youth Pastor, Brother Shawn Smith. Patrick has done a tour of duty in the Air Force, where he studied dentistry before surrendering to preach. He has served on church staff in Missouri, Mississippi, and here at WRBC.
Patrick and his wife are really a team and work together extremely well. They also involve their five precious children: Joshua, Elisabeth, Brenna, Silas, and Callie. When you have them in your church you will want to hear Kami and the children sing. Patrick is a very good preacher and will be a blessing to your people.Patrick has been our Youth Pastor, taught the young people's Sunday school class and worked a bus route as well. God has used this couple in our church and they will be missed. If you can have this family in your church, your church family will be blessed and they would make an excellent addition to your mission family.May the Lord continue to bless your ministry. If I can be of further assistance, please feel free to call me at (239)481-2848 or my cell (239)872-7423.
Yours For Missions,
Pastor Don Strange
Patrick and his wife are really a team and work together extremely well. They also involve their five precious children: Joshua, Elisabeth, Brenna, Silas, and Callie. When you have them in your church you will want to hear Kami and the children sing. Patrick is a very good preacher and will be a blessing to your people.Patrick has been our Youth Pastor, taught the young people's Sunday school class and worked a bus route as well. God has used this couple in our church and they will be missed. If you can have this family in your church, your church family will be blessed and they would make an excellent addition to your mission family.May the Lord continue to bless your ministry. If I can be of further assistance, please feel free to call me at (239)481-2848 or my cell (239)872-7423.
Yours For Missions,
Pastor Don Strange
Friday, November 26, 2010
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