Worth Baptist Church

Alan Harris has been a full-time, traveling evangelist since 1982. He is a powerful preacher and gifted vocalist.

Bro. Harris  was saved at the age of nine under the ministry of Dr. A. V. Henderson. He preached his first sermon when he was twelve years old, and at the age of fifteen, answered God’s call to preach the Gospel as a traveling evangelist.

He received degrees from Arlington Baptist College and Great Commission Theological Seminary. He has labored in the field of evangelism for 29 years; emphasizing stewardship, missions, spiritual renewal, discipleship, and relationship ministry.

Bro. Harris  has also won numerous awards as a singer, having most recently been honored with a DIAMOND AWARD nomination for MALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR. He has toured with many of the GAITHER HOMECOMING FRIENDS and he continues to have an active concert ministry.

Bill and Sharon Smith are IBFI missionaries to the country of Brazil.

In June of 1994, Brian Cone accepted Christ as his saviour at youth camp. He soon felt the Lord calling me to preach which led me to enroll in seminary. For the last several years he has had the priviledge to serve full time on staff at Joshua Baptist Church. During this time, he served as the Bus Director, Youth Pastor, Children's Pastor, Missions Director, and Sunday School Superintendent. At a missions conference in 2009, he began to feel the call on his life in regards to missions. While seeking the Lord's will, with the guidance of his pastor, Dr. Wolfenbarger, the Lord revealed to him the country of Thailand. During his survey trip to Thailand, the Lord made his call certain.

Serving the Lord in Thailand has been quite interesting for Bro. Cone. They have had challenges but they have also had lots of blessings. He counts it a privilege to be able to teach the Young Professionals Sunday School Class every Sunday as well as Preaching twice a month. Learning the language has been quite difficult since it is a tonal language. But, we know that with God all things are possible.

Bro. Carl Hodsdon is a missionary to Lurin, Peru with Mount Abarim Baptist Mission International.

Bro. Danny and Michelle Jones are missionaries to Mexico/Rio Grande Valley area. They are also member missionaries of Worth Baptist Church.

Bro. Glen South serves as Church planters to the country of Turkey.

Bro. Harold Ralph Gilmer is a Worth Baptist Church member missionary to the country of Brazil.  He is sent through the Mount Abarim Baptist Mission International.

Missionary to Slovenia

Bro. Larry McKinney, Missionary to North American Indians.

Larry and Regina McKinney serve as Independent Baptist Fellowship International Missionaries to North American Indians. Their sending church is Trinity Baptist Church located in Grand Prairie, Texas.

Bro. Mark Haynes is a missionary to the Navajo Indians.

Missions Pastor, Worth Baptist Church, and Missionary to Ghana West Africa

Pastor Stephen Volante was born just outside Boston, but was raised in both Rhode Island and Western Massachusetts. He married his high school sweetheart Laurel Towne from Northampton, and trained to be an engineer at Holyoke Community College in Holyoke, Massachusetts. After working ten years in many types of building construction, Steve felt God’s call to the ministry. He received his training at Heritage Baptist Institute of the Bible, in New England.

During a mission’s conference in his home church pastored at that time by his father, John Volante, he surrendered to serve the Lord as a missionary wherever God would call him. On a mission’s trip to Ghana to visit John Hayes, God spoke clearly to Steve’s heart. He and Laurel left to serve the Lord in Ghana in August of 1995. God was mightily blessing the work, and many were receiving Christ as Savior. However, in March of 1997, God called Laurel home to glory. Steve returned to the USA broken wondering how God would help him raise their three dear children alone. Like only God can do, he brought Missionary Michelle Tilson into Steve’s life to help him live and dream again. They were married on August 29, 1998, and returned to Ghana a year later to continue the work God had entrusted to Steve’s care.

Steve is currently serving as the mission’s pastor here at Worth Baptist Church, while serving as the General Director and African Director for Mount Abarim Baptist Missions. Steve still serves as the senior pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, in Techiman dividing his time between the USA and Africa.

Independent Baptist Fellowship International missionary.

Bro. Zachary Gillit is a member missionary of Worth Baptist Church currently serving in Brighton, United Kingdom. Pastor at East Birmingham Baptist Chapel, working with Crown Christian Heritage Trust.

Dr. Bill and Marcy Patterson's main focus has been Bible translation and church planting, but they have also worked in training Bible translators, establishing Bible institutes, developing ministries for youth and children, and speaking in conferences. Dr. Patterson is the President of Mount Abarim Baptist Mission International and the Director of the Bethesda Children’s Homes in Tlapa, Mexico. They are member missionaries of Worth Baptist Church.

Dr. Ellis is the national field representative for the FBFI (Fundamental Baptist Fellowship International) Commission on Chaplains which endorses chaplains to serve in the U.S. military.

Dr. Don Sisk was called to preach at the age of 21.  He has pastored several churches, including some during his college years and another in Kentucky four years after graduation.  Before beginning his missionary work in Japan, he served as associate pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Harvey, Illinois.

In 1965, he went to Japan with Baptist International Missions, Inc.(BIMI)  There the Lord established two churches, on in Osaka and one in Kobe.  Dr. Sisk also helped to establish the Kansai Independent Baptist Bible School and became the first president of the school.  He served as Far East Director with BIMI for ten years and then continued with the mission agency as President and General Director for nineteen years.

From 2003 to 2017, Dr. Sisk serves as the chairman of the Missions Department of West Coast Baptist College, a ministry of Lancaster Baptist Church in Lancaster, California.

Dr. Sisk currently serves as President/General Director Emeritus of BIMI.  The mission has 800 plus missionaries serving in over 100 fields around the world.  He has traveled and preached in approximately eighty different countries.  He travels to preach in mission conferences, Bible colleges, seminaries, and churches around the world, encouraging and training missionaries.

 

Dr. Ken Fielder serves as the Director of WorldView Ministries. With a focus on unreached people groups, we are committed both to the training of Bible translators and to the translation and publishing of Scriptures.

Dr. Mike Patterson was a Missionary to Mexico and the President Emeritus of Mount Abarim Baptist International (mountabarim.org). Dr. Mike preached for over fifty years, serving the Lord as a missionary, church planter, and director of the Bethesda Children’s Homes in Tlapa, Gro. Mexico. Dr. Mike and Mrs. Becky Patterson are members of Worth Baptist Church.

Dr. Ralph G. McCoy, 1915-1996, began his missionary service in 1954. After fruitful ministries in Northern Mexico and Central America he began a new work in Southern Mexico. The unique demands of this multifaceted work necessitated the founding of what has become the Mt. Abarim Baptist Mission International, Inc. in 1967. Mount Abarim works closely with and is operated under the authority of the local church.

 

Dr. Ron Maggard along with his wife Frances have been in missionary evangelism for over 30 years. He is currently pastor of Iglesia Bautista Faro de Luz in Jupiter, Florida but travels extensively to evangelize, educate and establish workers and churches worldwide.

Bro. Angel Farias is a Spanish church planter in Austin, Texas. (www.austinforchrist.com)

Evangelist Benjamin Burks

Evangelist Burks is a Bible school graduate and has worked as an Assistant Pastor, Senior Pastor, and Staff Evangelist. He has been in ministry since 1984, and has watched through the years as family, friends, and acquaintances have had their lives wrecked because of the many addictions that Satan uses to destroy lives. He has seen the destruction up close and from afar, and grew tired of watching lives and families destroyed. God has given to him a burden and a tool to help people who are held captive by their addictions and stubborn habits. “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32)

Director of Children Ministries at Worth Baptist Church

Bro. Brien Deverick is the Dean of Student Care at West Coast Baptist college.

 

Bro. Cory McGuire serves as the Director for Camp Liberty in Oakwood, Texas.  Camp Liberty is ministry dedicated to helping local churches reach, disciple, and minister to teens and juniors.  Cory and his wife, Heidi, are members of Worth Baptist Church.

Bro. Darren Myers works with local churches to captivate the hearts and minds of this generation of Americans to appreciate and preserve our freedom by presenting truth through multimedia presentations called Freedom Encounters.

Traveling in full-time ministry since 1992, Evangelist Doug Wyler and his family are proclaiming the glorious Gospel in evangelistic meetings at Independent, Bible-believing churches across America.

Bro. Isac Rodriguez is the pastor of Iglesia Bautista El Faro in Pasadena, TX.

Bro. Jerry Brewster served as pastor of Galilean Baptist Church from 1998 to 2014.

Bro. Larry Norman is the former Associate Pastor of Worth Baptist Church.  He serverd under Dr. Barber and Dr. Weaver.

Mike Herbster serves as Southland’s Director. He and his wife Amy Herbster both grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. They attended Bible College together and were married in 1996. Mike finished a MA in Pastoral Studies and also has a degree in music. Amy has a degree in music education. They have spent every summer since 1992 in camp ministry. During the fall and spring of the past 13 years, Mike was in full-time evangelism, traveling with his brother Mark in a ministry of preaching and music. God led them to Southland in the summer of 2003 where they led the music and assisted in program and administration.

In the fall of 2008 God led Mike to become the Director of Southland. He continued to travel with his family and lead the camp ministry mostly from the road. In 2014 God has led Mike and Amy to a full time position at Southland Christian Ministries. God has blessed them with 4 children, Micah, Malachi, Michala and Mckenna, who are a vital part of the ministry. 

Bro. Paul Gaymon is the Pastor of Faith Baptist Church on Brown City, MI.

Rich Tozour grew up in southern New Jersey and trusted Christ as his Savior on February 12, 1977 (He was ten years old and had never heard the Gospel prior to that day.). It was Rich’s dad, Richard Tozour, Sr., who led Rich to Christ! Rich graduated from Gloucester County Christian School in 1985 and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in biblical studies at Pensacola Christian College (Pensacola, Florida) in 1989. 

In August of 1993, Rich and Angela joined Eagle Heights Baptist Church in Kansas City. They taught at Eagle Heights Christian School for one year before being sent out by the church into full-time evangelism in June 1994.

Taylor Gillaspie was born and raised in Cleburne, TX. He was brought up in a Christian home and attended public school. He accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Saviour when he was eight years old at his church. As a teenager, he began distancing himself from God, his parents and his church. At sixteen, he returned to the Lord and began to grow spiritually, serve at his church and witness at his public high school. A year later he was called to preach. Through Bible college and summer ministries God confirmed in his heart the specific call to full-time evangelism and revival work. Today he travels the country preaching the Bible in churches, Christian schools and camps. Taylor and his wife, Jessica, have been married for five years and are sent out of Gospel Light Baptist Church in Rogers, AR.

Bro. Will Berry, a graduate of Heartland Baptist Bible College, currently serves as the Youth Paster at Rochester Hills Baptist Church in Rochester Hills, Michigan.

Pastor Bob Wallace grew up in a Christian home in southern New Jersey. At 19 years old, he went forward at a evangelistic crusade to trust Christ as his Savior. After attending a local college to begin training to become a teacher, he felt God's call on his life to become a preacher and enrolled at Bob Jones University, where he received both his bachelors degree and Masters of Divinity. In 1964, he married Betty Richardson and moved to the Chicago suburbs to become the youth pastor at the Oak Forest Baptist Temple. Many of the teens who sat under the ministry of "Pastor Bob" have gone on to become pastors, missionaries, and serve in other full-time Christian ministries. After serving ten years as youth pastor, God directed Pastor Wallace to relocate his family to Dallas, Texas where he would become pastor of the Galilean Baptist Church. He spent over twenty years at Galilean and was instrumental in overseeing the church's move from Oak Cliff to the Dallas suburb of Cedar Hill. In June 1997, God brought Pastor and Betty Wallace to Regency Baptist Church. During the years they have been here, many souls have been saved, families have been reached, and believers have been strengthened in the faith. In May 2012, Pastor Wallace was honored by Crown College with an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree for faithful Christian service.

Charles Keen is Pastor Emeritus of First Baptist Church/Milford Ohio and the Founding Pastor of Bearing Precious Seed and First Bible International.

Dr. Chesford Carr is an evangelist.

Curtis Hutson (July 10, 1934 – March 5, 1995) was an Independent Fundamental Baptist pastor and editor of The Sword of the Lord (1980-1995).

Dr. Dan Knickerbocker

Dr. David Gibbs III, National Center for Life and Liberty

Dr. Gary Coleman joined the Lavon Drive Baptist Church staff in November of 1964 as Senior Pastor. He currently serves as the Senior Pastor Emeritus.

Dr. Crabb was born and raised in Southeast Michigan. He was raised in a Christian home by his parents, Pastor George and Donna Crabb. He became a believer in the Lord Jesus when he was 13 years of age. He graduated from Christian school education in 1983 and pursued an undergraduate degree in Biology at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. During his undergraduate studies the Lord called him to preach. He immediately submitted to that call and started serving the Lord with his father who was the Senior Pastor of Antioch Baptist Church in Warren Michigan.

After finishing his undergraduate studies he was accepted in 1986 to Des Moines University – College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery in Des Moines, Iowa. While obtaining his medical degree he continued to remain active in the local church in teaching and preaching the Bible. He obtained his medical degree in 1990 finishing number one in his class out of 185 students.

He returned to Michigan were he completed a one year internship program followed by a two and a half year residency in Internal Medicine at St. John Oakland Hospital. During the entire time of his training he never forgot about the call of God on his life to preach the truths of the Bible. Dr. Crabb found that God was designing a unique ministry were Dr. Crabb could use the medical field with all of its experiences and analogies in teaching and preaching the Bible and one day reaching the addicted.

After completing his training and becoming a Board Certified Internist, Dr. Crabb entered private practice in the Metro-Detroit area. For the next 14 years Dr. Crabb practiced medicine and assisted his father (and pastor) in the ministry. It was during this time that God lead him to have a specific interest in Addiction Medicine. Dr. Crabb took special courses to further his knowledge in this area of medicine including comprehensive courses that certified him by the Drug Enforcement Agency. This allowed him the ability to treat patients with a medicine called Suboxone. It was also during this time that God lead him to write his first book, “Just Say Know, God’s Answer to Addiction.” (Published by Reformers Unanimous International)

During this same time Dr. Crabb and his father introduced a new ministry to Antioch Baptist Church called Reformers Unanimous International (RU). RU is a faith based addictions program which helps churches reach out to their communities in order to help the addicted and their families.

Through Reformers Unanimous coming to his church Dr. Crabb became acquainted with RU’s Founder and President Steven Curington. God wonderfully developed a friendship between these two men and they began working together to minister to the addicted across our nation and even our world. Dr. Crabb currently practices Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine in Naples, Florida.

He is a member of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and the American Osteopathic Academy of Addiction Medicine and the Christian Medical Dental Association. He continues to work very closely with RU as their Staff Physician and Medical Advisor. Dr. Crabb has authored numerous books on drug addiction, pornography and depression. Dr. Crabb actively travels putting on seminars and teaching and preaching from the Bible regarding the woes of addiction but more importantly the freedom an individual can have from their addiction through the Truth.

 

Evangelist from Joshua, Texas.

Dr. House continues to minister in local Church revivals and evangelistic Crusades all across America.

Dr. Jim Schettler, West Coast Baptist College of Lancaster, CA

Dr. Jonathan Stewart is the President of Norris Bible Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.

Dr. Mark Rasmessen is the Vice President of West Coast Baptist College in Lancaster, California.  Dr. Mark Rasmussen has been teaching on the college level for the past thirty years. He has spoken at Educators’ Conferences across our nation. Dr. Rasmussen was raised in a Pastor’s home where he was saved at the age of 5. He is a product of Christian education, having attended Christian school from the first grade through all three of his college degrees. Dr. Rasmussen is currently the Vice President of West Coast Baptist College in Lancaster, CA, where he and his wife Suza have been serving since 1997. He is the author of 101 Tips for Teaching and co-author of Mentoring and Modeling with Dr. John Goetsch. He and Suza also lead the Antelope Valley Bible Class every week at Lancaster Baptist Church. Dr. Rasmussen has given his life in full time ministry for the Lord Jesus Christ.

 

 

Pastor Emeritus of Worth Baptist Church

Dr. Raymond Barber has been in the Gospel ministry for more than sixty years. He pastored Worth Baptist Church, Fort Worth, Texas for thirty-five years and now serves as Pastor Emeritus. Additionally, Dr. Barber has taught Bible college classes, founded the Independent Baptist Fellowship International and the Norris Bible Baptist Institute. He served as President of the Independent Baptist Fellowship International and the Norris Bible Baptist Institute for twelve years.

Currently is President Emeritus of the IBFI, serves on the Executive Board of the IBFI, and is chancellor of Crown Southwest Norris Seminary. He is a member of the Executive Board of the Sword of the Lord Foundation and the Mt. Abarim Baptist Evangelistic Association.

He is the author of several books, booklets, and pamphlets, among which are: What the Bible Teaches, A Dozen Diamonds from Daniel, Family Portraits, Family Success, Profile of a Preacher, Golden Moments with God, Heaven's Hymnbook.

Barber continues to travel extensively throughout the nation preaching in revival meetings, Bible conferences, mission conferences, Bible colleges, fellowship meetings, and gatherings such as the national Sword of the Lord conference and the national meeting of the Independent Baptist Fellowship International.

Scott Pauley was raised in the mountains of West Virginia. At a young age he came to know the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal Savior. As a twelve year old boy God called him to be a preacher. He attended The Crown College in Powell, Tennessee, and upon graduation served in the ministry of the Temple Baptist Church as Director of Student Ministries.

From 2004 to 2015 he served as Vice President of Crown College and an assistant to Pastor Clarence Sexton at the Temple Baptist Church. Dr. Pauley now travels full time in evangelism. His passion is to preach the gospel and he has a burden to influence this generation for Christ. He and his wife Tammy have three children: Morgan, Lauren, and Grant.  You can learn more about his ministry at Enjoying The Journey.

United States Marine and Evangelist

To escape the world around him, he joined the Marine Corps in 1969. After his training, he received orders to serve in southeast Asia. In March of 1971, he was apprehended by the hand of God along an abandoned grassy trail in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam. In that moment, engulfed in smoke, fire and holy vengeance, a land mine explosion severed two lower limbs, and placed in a wheelchair for life a young man who was to carry, without legs, a message from God to a nation.

After his call to preach in 1973, and following a year of itinerant evangelistic preaching, Tim Lee pastored for five years in southern Illinois before surrendering to the full-time ministry of evangelism in 1979. The results in the lives of people was almost immediate as the former Marine began to stir and challenge God’s people across the country. People of all ages listened; among them teenagers, the professional person, United States Congressmen and Senators, Governors, Mayors and elected officials. They heard a clear, uncompromising message grounded deep in old fashioned patriotism, righteous living and biblical revival.

Pastor of Worth Baptist Church

Dr. Willie W. Weaver was born in Fort Worth, Texas, but spent his formative years in Louisiana. He resides in Burleson with Carolyn, his wife of fifty years. God has blessed Dr. and Mrs. Weaver with two children and five grandchildren.

With a keen heart for missions, Dr. Weaver has always led strong, missions-minded churches known for innovative leadership of missions conferences. His desire is to continue pastoring, to win precious souls, and to take the Gospel to every creature.

Answering God's call thirty-five years ago, Dr. Weaver first pastored People's Baptist in Harrisburg, Virginia for seven years; then Calvary Baptist in Connersville, Indiana for twenty years, and beginning in 1997 through the present, Worth Baptist in Fort Worth, Texas. His local church background includes time as a youth director, and twenty and twenty-seven years in television and radio ministries respectively.

Dr. Weaver has served as Secretary, Vice-President and a three year term as President of the Independent Baptist Fellowship International (IBFI). He was also the President of the Norris Bible Baptist Institute (NBBI) for three years and has served as editor of the "Searchlight", the official publication for the IBFI. Dr. Weaver is presently an instructor at the Crown Southwest Norris Seminary, teaching various courses. He holds a B.D. degree from the Bible Baptist Seminary and an honorary D.D. from Louisiana Baptist University.

Dr. Weaver faithfully served as pastor of Worth Baptist Church from 1997 to 2015.

Pastor Iglesia Bautista Monte Abarim, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico

Bro. Kim Hayes is the pastor of Bible Baptist Church in Chickasaw, Oklahoma.

Luis Ramos is the pastor of Iglesia Biblica Bautista in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.

Paul Rowland, General Secretary at Trinitarian Bible Society

Bro. Rom Ribeiro, Missionary to Brazil

Bro. Terry Terry serves as the pastor of Friendship Baptist Church in Boyd, TX

Dr. Chris Lamb is the pastor of Glen Iris Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

Dr. David Teis, Liberty Baptist Church of Las Vegas, NV

Pastor Denis McBride was born in Texarkana, AR. He received Christ as His Savior the summer after he graduated from high school. Sensing God would have him serve in Christian ministry, he chose to attend a Bible college and graduated with a theology degree.

He served as a youth pastor for 7 years and taught history and Bible for 10 years before coming to Pensacola. He has been a favorite A Beka Academy Bible and history teacher for over 25 years. In August of 2011, he was called to be the pastor of Campus Church. With a genuine love for families and a heart for young people, Pastor McBride delivers earnest, practical Bible messages.

Dr. Richard Wallace, Temple Baptist Church of Flower Mound, TX

Dr. Roger Green, Evangelist and International Speaker from Grace Baptist Church of Franklin, OH

Pastor, Worth Baptist Church

Pastor Tyler Gillit was called to be Worth’s Senior Pastor in January of 2016 after he served on staff for eight years. During that time, he served as the Youth Pastor and Associate Pastor, founded the WBC chapter of Reformers Unanimous, and developed our short-term missions program.

Pastor Gillit graduated with a Bachelor of Biblical Studies Degree from The Crown College in 2006 and a Master of Ministries Degree from Crown Seminary in 2007. He and Tori were married in 2006 and they have two children, Will and Anna. He is passionate about expository preaching and making disciples in Fort Worth and around the world.