Our Pastor

Pastor Jobe was saved at Vacation Bible School at a small Southern Baptist Church on the east side of Kansas City area where he grew up as a child.  Like many eight year olds, he did not fully comprehend nor grasp what happened on that day.  Nor did he understand what his salvation would mean or how it would affect and change his life.  After completing High School, he began careers as a Pipe Fitter and as a Police Officer.  After years of establishing himself in both careers successfully, according to the worlds standards, he started making plans for his future.  However, God had different plans for him.

At the age of thirty, he began to realize there was something missing.  There was a void and an emptiness in his life that he could not fill nor satisfy.  Through several trials and various circumstances, he attended a revival one night at a local Church just up the street from his home and he discovered what was missing in his life.  His relationship with his Heavenly Father!  At the invitation that night he went forward and rededicated his life to God (Galatians 4:19) and guess what happened.  Just like in the story of the prodigal son found in Luke 15, God welcomed his son home with open arms.

From that night on, he and his family became faithful in their church attendance and involvement.  Shortly thereafter, his wife came to know the Lord as her personal savior!  Through a series of events, he and his family became members of the Kansas City Baptist Temple.  It was there there that he was challenged by his Pastor Jeff Adams to read through his Bible every thirty days.  Through meeting this challenge, he would learn what God would have him to do with his life.  It wasn't long before God allowed him to be used more and more.  He then ended his 14 year career as a Police Officer so he could serve the Lord more effectively.

He attended and graduated from the Shepherd's School of Ministry at the Kansas City Baptist Temple and was later ordained as a Minister of the Word of God by them.  He helped to start a Circuit Riding Preacher Ministry which he was actively involved in.  In this ministry, he and other men would fill the pulpits of other churches that were without a Pastor throughout the area.  During the next seven years, he worked with and guided churches in Osceola, Missouri and Iola, Kansas at the same time!  He would spend all day Sunday with the members, helping them to establish themselves and others into a meaningful relationship with God and with each other.  This continued for a period of three to four years until the right Pastor was found for each of these churches. He returned to his home church, Kansas City Baptist Temple, after these churches found their respective Pastors.

In January 1993, the Lord began to impress on his heart the need to begin a work in Blue Springs, Missouri.  After considerable prayer, Godly council, the blessing of his home church and Pastor, he responded to God's calling.  With his family and ten others, they began their next journey.  They started Harvest Baptist Church of Blue Springs.