Jun 8, 2010
HBC ordains two new pastors
On April 25th, it was the privilege of Heritage Baptist Church to ordain its two newest pastors – Jonathan Christman and Mark Redfern. These two young men (each 30 years of age), as well as the congregation, were richly blessed by the preaching of Pastor Salvador Gomez from our sister church in the Dominican Republic. His counsel to the young shepherds as well as members of the church was extremely practical, encouraging and, at the same time, challenging. The sheep of HBC give great thanks to the Chief Shepherd for these precious gifts.
Pastor Jonathan Christman
Jonathan grew up in Owensboro. He graduated college from Cedarville University in 2002, where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts. In the spring of 2003, he moved to Washington D.C. to serve as a pastoral intern at The Capitol Hill Baptist Church. After completing this internship, Jonathan moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota to continue his pastoral training. He was accepted into the pastoral apprenticeship program at The Bethlehem Institute, where he completed his requirements for the M.Div. track. He continued his graduate schooling at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary where he finished his M.Div. Jonathan is passionate about India, enjoys traveling overseas, preaching, teaching and equipping pastors in various third-world contexts. As an arm of HBC, Jonathan is ministering to Indian families on a weekly basis who have immigrated to Louisville, Ky. He enjoys reading, blogging at The India I Know, French-pressed coffee, Disc golf and just mixing it up with people in general. It just so happens that he is not wasting his tweets either.
Pastor Mark Redfern
Mark grew up in Louisville and became a Christian at age 15. He graduated from Murray State University with a B.A. in Middle School Education in 2003 and married his college sweetheart, Katie. After graduation, Mark moved to Owensboro to be a part of Heritage Baptist Church and train for Christian ministry. He began as a student at the Midwest Center for Theological Studies and later transferred to Reformed Baptist Seminary, where he earned his Masters of Divinity in the fall of 2010. He was called to serve as a pastor of Heritage that same year. Mark works as a 6th grade Social Studies teacher in a local public middle school and earned his Masters of Education from Covenant College in May 2009. Mark and Katie adopted their son, Judson, from Ethiopia in 2008. Mark enjoys reading, writing, playing guitar, listening to music, wrestling with his son, and all things 1980s. Just don't ask him to break dance or moonwalk.
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