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The Call of God
Since graduating from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1979, Dr. Steve Hale has faithfully served the Lord in the field of vocational evangelism. Steve says, “The conviction and call to preach was as clear as my salvation experience. During my sophomore year in college I had an internal restlessness and could sense that God was re-directing my career pursuits. Desiring God’s best for my life, I needed clarity on what I believed God to be saying. I knelt by my bed and asked the Lord to speak through His Word. His Spirit led me to 2 Timothy 4:1-5 and applied these words to my life: “Preach the Word….Do the work of an evangelist.” Since that day in 1972, I have devoted myself to the pursuit of God’s high calling and throughout these past three decades of ministry, I can truly exclaim, “Great is Thy faithfulness!”
After serving as Indiana’s only vocational evangelist for 13 years, the Lord once again created an internal restlessness that it was time to move elsewhere. Steve and his wife, Debbie, began praying for God to give wisdom and discernment in recognizing the door of opportunity. For two years, they prayed and waited. It was when Steve was preaching in a Bible conference that Dr. Johnny Hunt asked Steve to prayerfully consider being the first preaching evangelist to join First Baptist of Woodstock, Georgia. Instantly, it was apparent this was the door he and Debbie had been praying about. Since 1992, Steve’s ministry has been based out of this 15,000 member congregation where he maintains an office and honorary title of Staff Evangelist.
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