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Tom was introduced to many missionaries and missions projects during his
early years as a pastor’s son at Evangel Baptist Church (Taylor, MI).
After graduating from Baptist Bible College
(Clarks Summit, PA), he and his new bride, Gela (Miller) went on a six
week missions trip to Chile to prayerfully consider missions full-time.
Instead, God led them to Berea
Baptist Church (Berea,OH). While serving as youth pastor there, Tom
was able to finish his seminary education through the Baptist Bible
Seminary extension program. Five years to the day from accepting the
call to Berea, Tom and Gela packed up their truck and headed to
Indianapolis to be church planters through the ministry of
Bethesda Baptist in
Brownsburg, IN. It was there, in 1995, that
West Pines Baptist Church
was founded. It has always had a strong emphasis on evangelism, and God
has blessed! Currently, they are in their own building sitting on 16
acres of land! West Pines Baptist is excited to be the sending church for the Graefs. Gela was
born in Jerusalem while her parents were there to study the Jewish
religion in order to more effectively witness to them. They left there
and moved to Argentina to work among
the Jews. While there, Gela learned
much about living in a crosscultural environment
and in God’s sustaining
grace. She
learned a commitment to God’s word from her father, and a
desire to use the home
for ministry from her mother. Their three
children, David, Jessica, and Hannah are
excited to be MK’s!
They will
be a big help in the ministry!
All of them actively invite their
neighborhood friends to church and pray for the lost. Some have been
saved
through their ministry. Now, as a family, we look forward to
moving to Romania to help train church planters and assist in mobilizing
a missions movement.
Here Are Some Sermons on the Life of Paul that you may
find helpful!
Acts 17
- This sermon deals with Paul in Athens. It shows that he did not
compromise, but rather, took the "common ground" in order to demonstrate
how far apart they were!10/02/05
Acts 20a -
Eutychus fell out of Paul's class. This sermon shows Paul's
dedication to the teaching and preaching to those he loves.12/04/05
Acts 20b - This
sermon takes a look at Paul's farewell speech to the Ephesian pastors.
It shows Paul's willingness to die for the sake of the will of God.
01/01/06
From the last few
chapters in Acts, this sermon describes how foolish we must look
to go into missions. It gives practical application from the life
of Paul to not live a common sense life.02/05/06
(There is about 10 seconds of silence before the
preaching starts, so please be patient.)
For some recent photos and music from our West Pines
Baptist Praise Team click on the link below. This years recording
is called "Praises in a Corn Field", since our church is in the middle
of a corn field. In Indy, what isn't in the center of a corn
field. However, if we do this again next year, it will have to be
"Praises in a Bean Patch" since they rotate annually between corn and
beans!
Here are the
songs we recorded. We only have them in windows media files:
Adonai
Be Magnified
Lord Most High
Above All
Complete in Thee
Who Can Satisfy
Cannot Say Enough
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