Edgar W. Bryan IV

MINISTERIAL CREDENTIALS

• Licensed for the Gospel Ministry 10-12-1994
• Ordained to the Gospel Ministry 10-20-2001

OTHER MINISTRY OPPORTUNITIES

• Youth Encounter Evening Coordinator 2001-2002 Worked with the planning team in the evening worship services and activities involved in the Youth Encounter week.
• Summer Youth Minister 1996, 1997, First Southern Baptist Church, Powell, WY
• Involved in Baptist Campus Ministries at the University of Wyoming and Northwest College
• University of Wyoming Baptist Collegiate Ministries Representative in 1997

ASSOCIATIONAL INVOLVEMENT

• Associational Youth Minister, Wind River Baptist Association Planned associational youth events in the winter and the summer of 2001 to give the youth of the association a time to fellowship and learn how to be effective witnesses for the gospel of Christ.
• Involved in planning associational mission trips and was a member of the nominating committee for the association.

TESTIMONY

I grew up in a Christian home, my father was a pastor and my mother taught Sunday School. From the time I was very young I was taught about the love that God has for us and that Jesus came and died for our sins in order that we could have fellowship with the Lord. When I was seven years old, at a Sunday night service, while the congregation sang “The Nail-scarred Hand”, I walked the aisle and told my father that I wanted to “place my hand in the Nail-scarred Hand.” He went through the Bible showing me that I was a sinner and needed Jesus in my life and I prayed and asked Jesus into my heart. Throughout my life I have had struggles and times that I strayed from God but He never left me. When I repented and sought His forgiveness, He was there to forgive and restore me.

CALLING

Because of my father being a minister, when asked if I was going to follow in his footsteps, I would reply that I didn’t want to be a preacher. Gently and methodically the Holy Spirit dealt with me in such a way that I came to realize that I wanted to live my life to honor God in all that I do. Doors of opportunity opened for me in the field of full-time Christian service while other doors closed. When I was nineteen, while sitting in the pew reading my Bible in Jeremiah 1:4-7 where the Lord says to Jeremiah to go and preach, I felt the Lord saying to me that I should go as well. Two things in my life are certain; my assurance of salvation and my calling to full time Christian service.