Good Shepherd Baptist Missions
A Ministry of East River Baptist Church
New Caney, Texas
Helping to keep soul winners
on the job winning souls
GSBM Administrative Team . . .
D.H. Easter has been General Director of Good Shepherd Baptist Missions since he was requested to lead in the forming and organization of the ministry in 1993. He works with the Administrative Team to establish and
direct the ministries of GSBM, oversees all of the ministries, serves as Director and Instructor of both the Missionary Training Schools and the Pastors Training Schools, and responds to the vehicle breakdown calls for Emergency Road Assistance.
The Emergency Road and Housing Assistance should develop into Mexico from the U.S. and Canada. Pastors Training Schools should expand into a second phase and then move into other countries throughout the world as
our Lord opens doors. Good Shepherd Baptist Missions will likely have God-given opportunities to expand its educational aspects into higher learning.
D.H. was saved at six years of age and called into the ministry, but did not surrender until he was 30 in 1974. He had graduated from Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama, with a B.S. in Business Administration
in 1971. Upon surrender to the ministry, he attended Tennessee Temple Seminary from 1975 through 1977 working on a Masters in Divinity. He holds a Master of Ministry (Pastoral Ministry) (1996) and also a PhD in Religion (Bible) (2008) from Bethany Divinity College and Seminary. D.H. worked as an Ironworker while attending college, served in the U.S.A.F. under the Air Force Security Agency as an electronics technician, and after college worked as part of the management team for
Deering Milliken Textiles. Before seminary D.H. served as a bus worker and Sunday School teacher at Oakside Baptist Church in LaGrange, Georgia, and then as pastor of Port Serena Baptist Church, a Highland Park Baptist
Church chapel in Hixon, Tennessee. After seminary in 1977, he was pastor of churches in Georgia, Indiana and Alabama until 1992. He also served as principal of Oakside Christian Schools in LaGrange, Georgia.
He married Meige in 1965. They have one son, who is a career officer with the U.S.A.F, and two grandchildren.
D. H. Easter
General Director
Good Shepherd Baptist Missions
1657 Magnolia Street
Alexander City, AL 35010
(256) 329-3436
deaster@bellsouth.net
Mark Gostlin is a missionary with Beacon International Baptist Mission focused on reaching the 130 million French speaking people through the use of evangelistic teams to penetrate the cultures and church planting teams to establish reproducing New Testament churches. His base of operation will primarily be in the country of France but he looks forward to assisting with efforts in West Africa as well.
Mark was born in South Eastern Michigan and was raised in North Eastern, Ohio. He graduated from High School in 1979 and from Heritage Baptist Institute, Cleveland Ohio, in 1989. After planting a church in Wayne County, Ohio from 1988 to 1990, and then working as an Associate Pastor for one year, Mark served as the senior Pastor of First Baptist Church of Spencer, Ohio from 1991 to 2006. He serves on the Administrative Team of GSBM and has served in a key role in the development of all GSBM ministries, especially the Pastors Training School. He has served as instructor in both the Pastors Training School and Missionary Training School. Between 2002 and 2006 Brother Gostlin served as Co-Director of PTS. He continues to serve as Co-Director of MTS. He resigned the pastorate in August, 2006 to begin the ministry to the French-speaking people.
Mark and Anne Gostlin were married in 1980 in Seville, Ohio and have six children and three grandchildren.
Mark Gostlin
Missionary
Beacon International Baptist Mission
45 State Route 42
West Salem, Ohio 44287
(330) 416-8623
markgostlin@yahoo.com
markgostlin.com
Roger Hain is the pastor and founder of Grace Bible Independent Baptist Church in Shinglehouse, Pennsylvania. GBIBC is a Christ-centered local church in a rural area of northwest Pennsylvania featuring
music of traditional hymns and gospel songs. All areas of the church use only the King James Version of the Bible. The church has conservative youth ministries that impact the lives of children and teenagers.
An effective world-wide outreach is experienced through a Bible-based missionary ministry. Leadership for all areas of the church involves an interactive role by leaders of all ages. In addition to serving as a pastor,
Brother Hain serves with Good Shepherd Baptist Missions as Director of Emergency Housing, Instructor at the Missionary Training School and Pastors Training Schools and as an Administrative Team member.
His vision for GBIBC is to develop a believer's relationship with Christ through a knowledge of Bible truth by a spirit yielded to the Holy Spirit. He believes mature faith then enables discernment by personal and
ecclesiastical separation as the church serves Christ.
He was born in Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Evangelical Congregational School of Theology in Myerstown, Pennsylvania with a diploma of theology. He has pastored
churches in Reading, Harrisburg and Bell Run, Pennsylvania.
He is married to Patricia Hain, and they have four children, seven grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
Pastor Roger Hain
Grace Bible Independent Baptist Church
392 Coon Crossing
Shinglehouse, PA 16748
(814) 697-7257
haingbibc@frontiernet.net
gracebiblepa.org
Roger Hoots is Pastor of East River Baptist Church located on the Northeast side of Houston, Texas in the town of New Caney. The faithful church family has given sacrificially and graciously to their missions
program in the 12 years God has allowed him to be their Pastor. East River has a Master Club Ministry and Pro-Teen Ministry for the youth. The Power Company is a ministry for their Seniors. A Bible Institute is directed by Associate
Pastor and Missions Director Edgar Thierbach. East River is privileged to be the home of GSBM. Brother Hoots is the presiding pastor over GSBM, serves on the Administrative Team and serves as an instructor at the
Pastors Training School.
East River has the vision of being a church that serves the Lord locally, nationally, and globally -- locally through the ministries above; nationally through the Pastors Training Schools; and globally through the Missionary
Training Schools and the foreign missionaries the church supports. East River is constructing its facilities accordingly.
Brother Hoots was born in Mississippi, and graduated from high school in 1975. After being born again in August of 1976, he surrendered to the call of the ministry in January of
1977 and became the pastor of Faith Baptist Church in Franklin, Louisiana, where he ministered for 14 years. For 9 of those 14 years, Faith operated a Christian school. He also served on the Board of Directors of
Habitat for Humanity in St. Mary Parish. In 1995 the Lord led him to New Caney.
He has a Bachelor of Religious Education from Bethany Divinity College and Seminary in Dothan, Alabama, and is currently enrolled in the Masters Program at Bethany.
He married his high school sweetheart, Cindy in 1977. They have six children (one deceased) and two grandchildren of whom all are in church..
Pastor Roger Hoots
East River Baptist Church
P. O. Box 983
New Caney, TX 77357
Church (281) 399-3030
ryhoots@juno.com
erbctexas.org
S. T. Janney served as the pastor of Sunnyside Baptist Church for 6 years, and then as the assistant pastor of Oakside Baptist Church working with Pastor Ralph Taylor for almost 7 years.
Then God led Brother Janney to the Faith Baptist Church in Roanoke, Alabama where he ministered for 19 years. Our Lord blessed the work tremendously in souls saved
and in several young men surrendering to the ministry. Then God called him to the Hilyer Baptist Church in LaGrange, Georgia. Since 1997 he has been the Exhorter (song leader) for GSBM's Missionary
Training School and Pastors Training School, and teaches a class on music at the PTS. He also serves as a member of the Administrative Team.
Educated in the rural school of the Big Springs community through the 10th grade, S. T. graduated from Handley High School in Roanoke, Alabama in 1951. He began working for the
Callaway Mills Company in July, 1952 and worked in the textile industry for 17 years with the exception of two years with the Navy from 1956 to 1958. His last secular employment was with the Calumet Plant of
LaGrange, Georgia, as Assistant Superintendent.
S. T. was saved at age 25, called to preach at age 29 and then began pastoring at 33. He married Runelle in 1958, and they moved to LaGrange, Georgia. They have two children. Their son works as an air traffice controller and is active
in Calvary Baptist Church with his wife, daughter and son. Third daughter is married and has two daughters. She is the organist at the Living Waters Baptist Church.
Pastor S. T. Janney
Hilyer Baptist Church
346 Costley Road
LaGrange, GA 30241
Church (706) 884-1117
stj@hilyerbaptist.com
Alan Jenkins has been pastor of Columbia Road Baptist Church in North Olmsted, Ohio for 23 years. The current ministries of the church include Harvest Baptist Missions, Columbia Road Baptist Bible Institute,
Bus Ministry, Youth Ministry, Senior Adult Ministry (Rainbow Fellowship), Bookstore, and Faith Promise Missions. His vision for the church is to build a work for God that honors Jesus and brings glory to His name.
His desire is that the fellowship at CRBC would be the one that has a passion for God, a passion for people, and a passion to serve. Brother Jenkins serves on the Administrative Team and as an instructor at
Pastors Training School.
Brother Jenkins was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up in Parma, Ohio. He attended Boyce Bible School which is an extension of Southern Seminary and did correspondence work
with Faith Baptist Seminary in Anderson, South Carolina.
He is married to Kathy Jenkins and they have three children in their 20s.
Pastor Alan Jenkins
Columbia Road Baptist Church
4116 Columbia Road
North Olmsted, OH 44070
Church (440) 777-7539
pastorjenkins@crbc-online.org
crbc-online.org
Ralph Taylor is a native of LaGrange, Georgia, where he pastored Oakside Baptist Church for 42 years. He retired December, 2004. After he was called to preach, Brother Taylor and three other
young preacher boys spent the next five years preaching in a tent, in cottage prayer meetings, and in jails. In 1959 a little country church near Hogansville, Georgia, called him as pastor. He accepted a
call to Oakside Baptist Church in November, 1962. During those early years he worked a full-time job, first as a truck driver and later as manager of the trucking terminal. A full day's work would be followed
by time spent in visitation and church work and then came the late nights of studying and praying. Bible school education was not an option; so he sought the counsel of godly men, attended Bible conferences,
and read all the good materials that could be afforded. (His very large library was made available to many preachers after his retirement.) Faith Baptist Theological Seminary awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1979.
God called a number of preachers out from under his ministry and developed a multi-faceted ministry at Oakside including the bus ministry, radio station, and Christian day school. He serves on GSBM' s
Administrative Team and has previously taught in the Pastors Training School and Missionary Training School.
He has been married to Wylene for 54 years. They have three children, six grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
Brother Ralph A. Taylor
Pastor Emeritus
Oakside Baptist Church
2772 Whitesville Road
LaGrange, GA 30240
(706) 882-2783
Rtaylor@oakside.org
oakside.org
Steve Williams currently serves as the General Director of Harvest Baptist Missions, a local church-based missionary sending agency ministry of Columbia Road Baptist Church in North Olmsted, Ohio.
He worked with his pastor, Alan Jenkins, to establish this ministry in 1999 and has continued to lead its day-to-day operations since that time. HBM currently serves ten missionary families that are
actively involved in various church planting efforts around the world. The main thrust of HBM is to assist the missionaries and their sending churches. All services provided by HBM are done so without cost
to the missionary or their sending church. HBM does not aspire to be a "large agency". Their desire is to faithfully serve those families that God sends their way. In additional to the sending agency, HBM also
oversees Nehemiah's Network -- a helps ministry providing quality used building materials and church supplies to missionaries and churches free of charge. Since their beginning, they have given away materials
conservatively valued at over $500K. Brother Williams serves on GSBM's Administrative Team and is an instructor with the Missionary Training School. He also serves as the leader of the PTS Audio-visual and Reinforcement
Team and has previously served as an instructor at the Pastors Training School.
Prior to his call to the ministry, Brother Williams was employed by Ameritech Corporation in Cleveland, Ohio for 13 years. During that time, the Lord was preparing him for future service by giving him a broad range of
managerial responsibilities and experiences including project manager.
Raised in Ohio, Brother Williams graduated from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio with a degree in Business Administration. Following graduation, he moved to the Cleveland area and joined the
Columbia Road Baptist Church. Over the past 18 years at the church, Brother Williams has received his Bible training under the leadership of his pastor and the church's Bible Institute.
Brother Williams resides in Ohio with his wife Kris, and their three children.
Steve Williams
General Director
Harvest Baptist Missions
33085 Fern Tree Lane
N Ridgeville, OH 44039
Office (440) 734-9970
Fax (440) 777-1124
stevewilliams@crbc-online.org
harvestbaptistmissions.org