About our Pastor

Pastor Patrick M. Blanton Sr. raised in the projects of Seattle Washington. Attended Mount View Elementary School, Cascade Junior High, Evergreen High School, Joined United States Marine corps, Bakersfield Community College, Golden Gate Southern Baptist Seminary, Presently enrolled in Biblical Counseling Masters Program Summit Bible College.

"Raised in a denominational church as a child I learned to hate church and what I thought was God. Granted I was no angle as a child, the example given by so-called Christian Men had nothing to do with how God has called us to be but rather a lot to do with traditions of man. Those who were supposed to be trusted in a child’s life, family, family friends, church members, and even schoolmates abused me physically, mentally, and spiritually. To be accepted I started lying to others, and when they would find out about the lies I would us an explosive temper to cover my lies. I learned to steal because of not having things; everyone around me had nice things and being poor my mother could not afford to by us many things. She did her best however was very limited in the fact of being a single mom raising five children on her own (four boys and one girl) coming from an abusive childhood and marriage herself. The church we attended never taught about the principles of faith and taking off the old man and putting on the new. They practiced giving preference to those who had and made sure those that had not knew it. I grew up with a very perverted view of God, family, and church. Immersed as a young child in a life style of lying, stealing, pornography, and extreme violence. I dropped out of the 10th grade to join the United States Marine Corps. I was not a good Marine in fact all the dishonorable corrector traits that I grew up learning followed along with me and I ended up being discharged with a Bad Conduct Discharge after a few years of service. I was a wreck and still had not found a place to land yet. I got married and that was a disaster. We had two wonderful children, which I abandoned along with their mother. Continued on my downhill self-destruct pattern of life, became an intravenous drug user, and eventually arrested on several drug charges. While in prison, I turned my life over to God however I had no real concept of what that really meant. I soon violated parole and rearrested for drugs and guns this time. Now I started seeking God after I got out this time. I went to several churches were I continued in my dishonorable behavior of lying and stealing pornography, and extreme violence. I loved God just did not know how to break the bad habits that have been given free rule in my life for so many years. I finally learned that God cares for me and that He not only called me to become a Christian but also called me to be Holy even as He is Holy. Psalms 139 has really showed me that God has known me all along and He still called me by name. You see we always try to make are way of thinking God’s but we have it backwards. We should be constantly working at making God’s ways ours.

This has been my aim for the last 18 years of my walk with God. Some days I do better than others and at times I have such spurts of growth and then it seems that I have dry spells or so I though. In reality the dry spells is where I was growing the most. The growth spurts happen when I was in classroom training with the Holy Spirit. Now God has put me in a place that I can share my life’s journey with others to help them become over comers before they give up. God does not hate you as a matter of fact He loves you so much read John 3:16-18 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God”.

Along with Psalms 139 God is telling you He already knows all about you and still sent Jesus to die for you. When I was able to put all the crap aside that man tries so hard to put on us and realized that God was not angry with me but loves me it was easy to give up old habits. Come; join us, and let us put the emphasis on learning to love God because that is what will bring the desire to change the habits that are not pleasing to Him. After you decide to change there is even more news, He has given to those that ask the empowerment the Holy Spirit to accomplish those changes. You see God has taken care of everything all we have to do is accept Jesus as or Savior by confessing and believing and then ask for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Come and learn of God not man and be encouraged and built up in the Word and Spirit of God and."