Good Shepherd Baptist Missions
A Ministry of East River Baptist Church
New Caney, Texas
Helping to keep soul winners
on the job winning souls
Home Church . . .
East River Baptist Church
New Caney, Texas
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
http://www.erbctexas.org
Edgar Thierbach is the Associate Pastor of East River Baptist Church in New Caney, Texas. He assists in the preaching and the teaching of the word of God in the pulpit and as the dean of the church's Bible institute.
In addition, as the Director of Missions, he helps in the care of four missionary families out of East River and assists in the oversight of a mission budget that supports some 125 missionaries through God's gracious
and faithful supply. Overseas missionaries and national pastors in Papua New Guinea use him an instructor in their pastor's schools. He also helps with the reinforcements in GSBM's Pastors Training School.
Born in Missouri in 1952, he was reared in the rural town of Manchester. After graduating from high school, he entered the U.S. Air Force and was saved by the grace of God in 1980 while stationed in
Alaska. He separated from the military in 1981 and surrendered to the preaching ministry in February of 1982. He holds a bachelors degree in Christian Education from Trinity Valley Baptist Seminary and College
and an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Faith Bible Theological Seminary in Milton, Florida.
Prior to his arrival at East River Baptist Church in 1999, Brother Thierbach served the Lord as a pastor in Louisiana and later as a missionary to Black Americans in Bogue Chitto, Mississippi. There, men were trained
through the mission's Bible institute, and the church that was established continues today. He and his wife, Debbie, were married in 1972. They have two children and six grandchildren.
Associate Pastor Ed Thierbach
East River Baptist Church
2534 Fountain View
New Caney, TX 77357
Church (281) 399-3030
eterbc@nctv.com
erbctexas.org