Biographical Sketch
Of Pastor Christopher War
On
January 21, 1959, I was born in Paterson, NJ. June,
1977, I graduated from Fairlawn High School, Fairlawn,
NJ. November, 1977, I joined the U.S. Navy.
From
February, 1978-September, 1979, station onboard the USS
Sylvania (AFS-2). From September, 1979-December, 1979
stationed at Naval Training Center Millington, TN.
I
married Lou Anne on July 4th, 1981.
From
January, 1980-December, 1983, stationed in NAS
Brunswick, ME.
Left NAS
Brunswick, ME. in December, 1983, and was stationed NAS
Rota, Spain.
On May
6,1984, I received Christ as Savior at Bethel Baptist
Church, a BIMI Military Missions Church in Rota, Spain.
Pastor Chris Parker was my pastor. I learned and grew
in Christ greatly under that ministry.
I
assisted in teaching Sunday school classes, worked in the
sound room, maintenance around the church and soul
winning.
My
daughter, Meghan, was born in Sept. 1985.
In
December of 1986, we left Rota, Spain, under orders to
USS Independence home ported for overhaul in
Philadelphia Ship yard, Philadelphia, PA. Attended
Bethel Baptist Church of Philadelphia, PA.
In July,
1987, discharged from active duty and moved to Freeport,
ME. Attended Grace Baptist Church in Westbrook, ME.
Joined
the Army reserve. In January, 1989, re-enlisted active
duty Navy. Stationed at NAS Cecil Field, Jacksonville,
FL. Attended Trinity Baptist Church and assisted in
teaching Sunday School, AWANA leader and soul winning.
My second
daughter, Nicole, was born in July of 1989.
In April,
1991, transferred from Jacksonville, FL. to USS George
Washington (CVN-73) Norfolk, VA. Assisted and worked at
Christian Serviceman’s Center Norfolk, VA. for four
months. Attended Providence Baptist Church Chesapeake,
VA, worked as an AWANA leader. Was out to sea most of
the time. My son, Donny, was born at this time.
In July
1995 transferred to Naval Test Center, Patuxent River,
MD. Attended Patuxent Baptist Church. Worked as usher,
maintenance around church and soul winning.
In August
of 1996, while working at a Christian youth camp, God
called me to preach. I made it public in our
church.
August,
1996, started Bible College at Independent Baptist Bible
College, Clinton, MD. At Patuxent Baptist Church,
worked as church treasurer for five years. Headed up our
soul winning/ visitation program for eight years. In
March, 1999, I was voted in, by the members of Patuxent
Baptist church, as Assistant Pastor. In May of
1999, retired from active duty as a Chief Petty Officer
and began to work full time at Patuxent Baptist Church.
In November, 2001, because of church financial reasons,
Pastor Conner and I decided I should seek other
employment but still perform as many duties as possible
as Assistant Pastor.
In
November, 2001, I worked at Qualtec Inc., a government
contractor. I worked there for four months. The company
later laid off 1/3 of its employees. Although I was not
laid off, I was called by another government contractor,
DynCorp. I went for the interview and took the job.
In
November, 2001, I was promoted to Inspector. God
had been speaking to my heart about Military Missions
for some time.
I talked
it over with my wife and she agreed. She had been
thinking the same thing.
We talked
it over with our Pastor and asked him to pray about it
also.
I needed
to finish Bible college before making the move.
In
January, 2004, God impressed upon my heart to Email
Brother Jeff Alverson about Military Missions.
Brother
Alverson explained the need of Military Missions and, at
this time, there was a need to plant a church near the
Mayport Naval Base, Mayport FL. He asked if we would
pray about it, I said we would.
We prayed
for two weeks and God gave us total peace about it. My
pastor also had total peace about it.
I called
and told Brother Alverson that God had given us total
peace and we would do it.
As a
family we surrendered and made it public, at Patuxent
Baptist Church, that God has called us into Military
Missions.
In
February, 2004, we started part time deputation. In
March, 2004, DynCorp wanted to promote me to shop
supervisor, I turned it down. I knew it would interfere
with my call to Military Missions. On May 7, 2004, I
graduated from Independent Baptist Bible College.
We attended BIMI candidate school
in June of 2004. We went on full time deputation July 4,
2004.
Attended
BIMI Church Planting School August 2004. Attended 2nd
year BIMI school in June 2005
On
November 28, 2005
we moved to the Mayport, FL area to plant a church
(Freedom Independent Baptist Church) for activity duty,
reserve, retired, veterans and their families that live
in this area.
2006
Freedom Independent Baptist Church
