Our Staff
Senior Pastor - Terry Jobe
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.
Assistant Pastor - Chris Allen
Chris Allen is an Assistant Pastor at HBC. He is currently working with the HBC youth programs including the new Fusion Ministry. He is a former Executive Pastor at Lee's Summit Baptist Temple. In that role Chris ensured that all the ministries and operations of the church were running smoothly with the proper level of leadership teams to carry out various objectives handed down from the senior pastor. Chris served on staff at Lee's Summit Baptist Temple as Youth Pastor for several years before becoming Executive Pastor in 2007. He has worked with youth in the church as well as the public school system through the LifeGuard Youth Development Program which teaches abstinence. He currently works with this program full time along with his duties at the church.
Chris served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1993-1997 as an air traffic controller at Air Station New River in Jasksonville, NC. He has worked in other areas of leadership such as the head of security at The Great Mall of the Great Plains in Olathe, KS. Chris received a Bachlor of Science degree in Organizational Leadership in 2006 from Calvary Bible College. He has worked teaching school; in construction, retail, and gardening. He has traveled abroad on numberous Mission Trips as well as with a student exchange program in high school.
Chris has been involved in ministry in one form or another since his first music solo in a Christmas play when he was 6 years old. He has worked with kids in the AWANA program and teens before, during, and after his tenure in the Marines.
His wife, Katrina, works for an investment firm in the Kansas City area. They have been maried since 1993 and have three children, Connor, Collin, and Caleb.