Brock Davis joins Worland First Baptist Church family as lead pastor
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WORLAND – Pastor Brock Davis and his wife Diane moved from Roby, Missouri, to join the Worland First Baptist Church family leaving family, their two sons and friends behind to start a new chapter in their lives.
“The biggest adjustment is being away from our families and our sons because our sons were able to come home every weekend from college. It’s kind of a new adventure in every aspect. We’ve left our family, we don’t have our kids here, and we don’t have our family here. We are adjusting to everything but I think that the beauty of this area has helped us adjust because we love the mountains and we love snow. I praise God I live in this day and age because we have Skype or Facetime and you can actually see your family and talk to them instead of just visit over the phone,” Davis said.
Davis feels that God led him to Worland as the new pastor for the First Baptist Church. “I felt about two years ago that God was moving us from Roby and so we started praying about where God would lead us. We got on the Southern Baptist Convention website for churches looking for pastors and Worland was one of those. We prayed about it and for some reason we both felt that I should send a resumé here so I sent a resumé. They called and wanted an interview and we Skype interviewed and in the Skype interview I was so impressed with what I saw because they were so honest about where the church was at, what was going on in the church and honestly the problems of the church. I didn’t feel any red flags and I had interviewed with several other churches and in all those churches I had seen a red flag that I didn’t want to deal with, that I felt that I didn’t need to deal with at this age. They called after that interview and said that I was the top candidate and they wanted to know if I would come and preach and interview for a week. We came out here for a week and just fell in love with it and the people. I saw movement the first Sunday we were here, it seemed like the people had the desire to draw close to God again and they voted 100 percent to call us and we accepted and here we are, 18 hours away from home,” Davis explained.
Although Davis and his wife were both raised in church and met in church, Davis spent many years doubting his salvation. Davis was saved (accepted Jesus Christ as his savior) at a young age but in his early teenage years he began to have doubts, which were alieved for a while but resurfaced soon after. Those doubts led him to a pastor for counselling, which in the end led him to becoming a pastor himself.
Long before Davis became a pastor God had given him signs that he would become one, signs that Davis ran from for many years. The first sign came from his girlfriend, soon to be wife while they were dating when she told him that she had known since she was in fifth grade that she was supposed to marry a pastor, to which he replied, “Well, that ain’t going to happen.”
The second sign came when he was 19 while being counselled by his pastor. “A pastor was counselling me and I was still having issues about not being sure that I was a Christian and he opened the bible and said read this verse; 1 Corinthians 9-16: Woe is me if I preach not the gospel. As soon as I read that: Woe is me if I preach not the gospel, I knew what he meant, that I was supposed to be preaching,” Davis said. So Davis ran from that for about nine years, did everything that he could to get away from it until one night. “I was working in a warehouse, I was a supervisor and not living the life I should and that night on the way home it was like God sat down in the truck with me and said if you don’t surrender to me tonight, I’m taking you home. From that point on I’ve known and tried to do what I am supposed to do and that is to share Jesus Christ with everyone I meet,” He added.
Davis takes his work for God seriously making it his goal to share the gospel with at least one person every day. “I’m going to lead every conversation with anybody to know where they are at relationship wise (with Jesus) and if they tell me that they don’t want to talk about it, that’s fine but at least I’ve put forth my duty, not as a preacher but as a Christian, to share who Jesus is,” Davis stated. “When someone comes to Christ it just excites me, it’s like being at the Super Bowl and a touchdown is scored by your team. I just want to start screaming and shouting in celebration,” he added.
Davis is adjusting to life as lead pastor for the First Baptist Church starting each morning with prayer with his administrative assistant Becci Kalfell and the student ministry pastor Jess Rollema. He looks forward to the church growing spiritually in their relationship with Jesus Christ.
