Pastor Ronald a PalmerPastor Ron Palmer was born on September 27, 1942, in Valentine, Nebraska. He grew up living what some would call a "poor, difficult life," but what he just considered was life. In 1962 at age 19 he was saved at the Baptist Church in Kilgore, Nebraska He served the Lord there, with his Pastor mentoring him for a year. He then moved to Montana where he got out of Church and was backslidden for six years.During this time, he joined the Navy in January of 1964 and after getting out of Navy bootcamp he married Arlee Chamberlin on June 20th of 1964. He was a hospital corpsman, surgical technician from 1964 to 1967. He spent a year in Vietnam from October 1966 to October 1967 during which he helped establish the first Surgical Team in military history. It was like the Mash units only smaller and stationed on a helicopter carrier instead of inland. Upon getting out of the Navy 1967, they moved to Baldwin Park, California in January of 1968 where they started going to the Baldwin Park Free Will Baptist Church. In June of 1968 Ron rededicated his life to Christ during the same service Arlee was saved in. In 1969 he started preaching, and in 1971 God called him to Pastor. He pastored the Downey Avenue Free Will Baptist Church in Bellflower, California, for fifteen years, after which they moved to Billings, Montana. There they started the Cross Roads Free Will Baptist Church, in January 1986, where they have been pastoring since then.Pastor Ron has written two other books prior to this one. His first was "With God As My Partner," which is an autobiography, and his second was, "Don't Stay At Calvary," which is a book on the importance of consistent Christian service, and why the Church is so different now than during the first century.His ministry has been a journey of faith and miracles, and by sharing what he has been through in his ministry in small churches, he hopes to be able to encourage those who are in similar ministries by showing how God can effectively use them. Read More Read Less