{"id":308,"date":"2019-08-05T14:22:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T14:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swartzcreek.net?page_id=308"},"modified":"2025-02-11T18:26:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T23:26:16","slug":"our-ministers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.swartzcreek.net\/?page_id=308","title":{"rendered":"Our Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Pulpit Minister: Paul Holland<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to moving to Swartz Creek, Paul served the church in Paris, KY, having spent 7 1\/2 years on the mission field in Romania. He also served four years as an associate minister for congregations in Tennessee and Kentucky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul is a graduate of Faulkner University (B. A. in Bible) and Freed-Hardeman University (M. Ed., Master of Ministry and Master of Divinity). He and his wife, Rachel (B. A. art education; M. A. in Ed.), have two daughters, Jewell (married to Jacob July) and Ana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to his local work, Paul continues to make mission trips to Romania and writes a weekly lesson in Romanian for the brethren there. He has volunteered with a local hospice organization and co-edits a dual-language magazine with Moises Pinedo, Christian Family \/ Familia cristiana (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebglobal.org\">https:\/\/www.ebglobal.org<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Ministry Mandate<\/strong> (2 Timothy 4:1-5)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-very-light-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background\"><strong>2 Timothy 4:1-5<\/strong> New American Standard Bible (NASB)<br><br><strong><em>4:1<\/em><\/strong><em> I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: <\/em><strong><em>2<\/em><\/strong><em> preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. <\/em><strong><em>3<\/em><\/strong><em> For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, <\/em><strong><em>4<\/em><\/strong><em> and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. <\/em><strong><em>5<\/em><\/strong><em> But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pulpit Minister: Paul Holland Prior to moving to Swartz Creek, Paul served the church in Paris, KY, having spent 7 1\/2 years on the mission field in Romania. He also served four years as an associate minister for congregations in Tennessee and Kentucky. Paul is a graduate of Faulkner University[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-308","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swartzcreek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swartzcreek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swartzcreek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swartzcreek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swartzcreek.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swartzcreek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3550,"href":"https:\/\/www.swartzcreek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308\/revisions\/3550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swartzcreek.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}