Welcome to Winston Community Baptist Church

We would like to take this opportunity to welcome our new Associate Pastor Aaron Gantenbein and his wife Denise to our church family. Aaron was born in Arlington, Texas in 1979 and moved with his family to Washington in the summer of 1981. When he was eight years old he accepted Christ in his family's home in Tacoma, WA. At the age of 13 he rededicated his life to Christ at a youth camp when he realized that he had not been living fully for Christ. At the age of 16 he felt that God was beginning to lead him to a life in the ministry and was reaffirmed at a youth camp where he sensed God's calling in his life to serve him wherever he was needed.

In August of 1997 he began attending Oklahoma Baptist University and graduated with a BA in Cross-Cultural Ministry with a minor in anthropology. He spent the next two years serving overseas with the International Mission Board in Amsterdam in the various immigrant communities and refugee centers.  It was very much an eye-opening experience for him as God taught him a lot about his strengths and weaknesses and where his future lied. He felt the highlight of his mission work was forming relationships with people in the area and working with the various volunteer teams that came to work with them during those two years.

It was through this experience, or learning and growing period, that Aaron realized he needed to gain more experience and training in the ministry. So, upon returning in the fall of 2003 Aaron enrolled at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary's Northwest Campus. After gaining much training, experience, and the benefit of gaining numerous friends, he graduated in the spring of 2007 with his Master's of Divinity degree.

During this time Aaron worked various jobs to support himself through this process. What he enjoyed the most was serving as a youth leader at Kitsap Lake Baptist Church in Bremerton, Washington for three years. Not only did he get to have fun with the youth, but God gave him the opportunity to teach them, one of his passions.

It was during this time as a youth leader that Aaron met his wife Denise on the way to a youth leader's conference in Vancouver, Washington in 2009. It was through a mutual friend, her church's secretary who actually went to his church, they wound up in the same car together traveling to the conference. They reunited a few months later at another youth event, which he still wonders if it was really a coincidence or not, and began dating.

Over the next few months they got to know each other more and in the following summer Aaron proposed to Denise. Upon their announcement the overwhelming response was, 'What took you so long?" They were married on March 5th, 2011 at First Baptist Church and have been serving God together ever since.

In the summer of 2011 Pastor Steve Schenewerk approached Aaron to interview for the position of Associate Pastor of Community Baptist Church. Aaron felt that it was a great visit and they felt a sense of a peace from God that this is where He wanted them. Aaron excepted the position and started his new position right after Thanksgiving the same year. Aaron and Denise are excited to be serving God together here and are looking forward to what they will do through our church.

LISTEN TO OUR SUNDAY MORNING WORSHIP SERVICES

You can now listen to Pastor Steve as he brings to us God's message each Sunday morning. Just click on the "Sermons" link and listen to our live morning worship service. All sermons are recorded as an MP3 file and can be played on Windows Media Player.

Note: Now available for your listening convenience are all the sermons from 2011 and 2012 as we go forward.

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