Hi! My name is Tom Heringer and this is my wife Cyndi you are on our ministry web site. I would like to share with you my testimony of salvation and call to the gospel ministry. I was born Sacramento, California in 1946 and have lived there most of my life. I had a brief sojourn in Oregon from 1973 to 1976.
I came to know The Lord Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior after spending a few weeks with my brother and his family in the summer of 1958.I am thankful for my brother and the blessing that he has been to me. It was due to his mentoring that I was encouraged to have a deeper walk with the Lord Jesus. My brother was in World War II and served in the U.S.N in the South Pacific Theater, up until the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. If that had not happened I would have not had a wonderful brother to know. There is no way to measure the benefit he has been.
During the summer of 1958 they were having a Vacation Bible School at the church at which my brother was a member and I attended it every day. I was a real brat and could find more ways to be annoying then ways I could be nice. The VBS was a ministry there of The American Sunday School Union and was being led by Sprague (I do not remember his first name. I also attended Sunday School at their church and heard of my need for a Savior. I would sit in the class and throw spit wads at the teacher, boy did I get in trouble for that little display.
I did not make a decision at that time, but waited until I got home and God had been working on my heart the whole time. In my own room at our house on Holstein Way, I received Christ as my savior.
It was many years later when God had opened the opportunity to attend a Bible believing Church in Sacramento, this was in the spring of 1964, Colonial Baptist Church. My brother was down for a lamb sale or Wool Growers Association or something of that kind. While he was in town he visited a friend of his during a prayer meeting, who was a member of Colonial, Evangelist Keith Ward. I felt right at home almost from the start and after Larry went home I continued to attend Colonial and was eventually baptized and became a member.
I was getting close to graduation from high school at that time and was having problems getting through to graduate the last year was a real struggle. After I graduated from high school I then attended Sacramento City College for about two years, before responding to a call from God to the gospel ministry and I had become convinced that the main problems in America are spiritual not political. I then transferred from Sacramento City College and went to Western Baptist Bible College, El Cerrito, and Ca. At that time Western was located in El Cerrito, Ca. just down the road a bit from the University of California at Berkeley. This was during the spring of 1967 and the war in Vietnam was at full tilt and I was in Bible College taking classes to learn how to faithfully understand and interpret scripture. I took classes such as Old and New Testament survey, plus hermeneutics. Western moved to Salem, Ore., in the fall of 1969 and I completed my B.S in Bible in 1971.
After graduation and getting married I accepted the call to pastor Grace Baptist Church, Grass Valley, CA. I remained there for two years, before accepting the call to start a new church with some friends of mine in Aumsville, Ore., just a short ride from Salem. I was beginning to see the need for further education and so eventually moved back to Sacramento. My mother was also dying from cancer and I wanted to be closer to her.
I had read about Sacramento Baptist College and Theological Seminary and applied to attend after I had returned to Sacramento. For the next couple of years I attended and worked on my Masters Degree, until family problems had finally caught up with me. My wife at that time and I separated and after a while we were divorced. This placed a hold on my life that was not let up until just a few years ago, when I finally realized that God was still using me and that the call to the ministry had not been rescinded by God.
My second wife Cyndi and I have now been married for 25 years, it is stability and permanency that counts, not just a single mistake. Cyndi and I after much prayer and consideration determined to move from California to Cyndi's home state Kentucky. While here in Kentucky I discovered internet ministries and have been working on websites almost constantly since being here. Ministering as an internet pastor is not a replacement for fellowshipping in a local church, but it is away that believers can receive instruction in God's Word. Many of our older people find it difficult to get out of the house and go to church for physical reasons. If you would like to participate in this ministry please register? If not we still have several Bible Studies going on at a time. We did come here to attend the University of Kentucky, but do to some serious physical problems that Cyndi has I have had to put that on hold.
My main concern for ministry is to warn God's people about the dangers that are out there as well as instruction in God's Word.
There are several movements that you will read about on this website. Please pray and read each article? Remember we are saying what we say at this website, because we are genuinely concerned about the Spiritual safety of the church today. Joining us in this ministry is Forest Steenfott. We are only warning of danger because of our love for God's people and the Church. Please read this verse and remember that it is the theme of this web ministry.
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:" 2 Timothy 3:15-17
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