The Character of God: Greatness
Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust.
Isaiah 40:14 (ESV)
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Pastor Bob Selph  Bob was blessed to grow up in a Christian family in Arizona, where God captured his heart with the beauty and grace of Jesus Christ. Bob married his high school sweetheart, Cathi Wycoff, who became his partner in ministry. During these high school and college years God began leading Bob towards pastoral ministry.
Bob graduated from Fort Lewis College with a BA in European History. He received a call to fulltime ministry and was ordained. For 17 years, Bob faithfully ministered at Miller Valley Baptist Church in Prescott, Arizona (a Southern Baptist church), leading the church to growth in grace and to membership in Reformed Baptist Missions Services (RBMS). Bob was very involved in the Southern Baptist Founders movement and helped to start a regional Founders' conference in Texas. He also wrote Southern Baptists and the Doctrine of Election, which received a wide distribution in the USA and in other countries. In 1995 Bob accepted a call to pastor Grace Baptist Church of Taylors, South Carolina, where he remained as Senior Pastor for almost 4 years. In 1999, he was asked to serve as Missions Coordinator for ARBCA/RBMS, a position he joyfully carried out for 9 years. During this time, Bob and Cathi traveled to 45 different countries – to some of them five or six times – encouraging the work of missions and providing pastoral training.
In 2007 Grace Baptist called Bob to return as senior pastor. Bob sees his primary passion and responsibility as shepherding the people of GBC through preaching, teaching, and counseling, so that they are equipped to be a vibrant community, full of faith and zealous to love and serve Jesus and their neighbors.
God has also gifted Bob and his wife Cathi in areas of hospitality and outreach. They are as comfortable and gifted at entertaining, serving in the kitchen or behind their patio grill, as they are in sharing God’s Word. They do thank God that their three children love and serve the Lord Jesus Christ and are raising their eight grandchildren in the fear and admonition of the Lord.
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Pastor Chad Clint Chad was born and raised in the beautiful mile high city of Prescott, Arizona. After high school his life radically changed by the grace of God through the ministry of a faithful pastor and the friendship of his best friend. Everything changed by simply believing and relying on what Jesus did on the cross for a relationship with God. In 1996 Chad graduated from Northern Arizona University with a B.A. in Social Science and Secondary Education. With a desire to tell people about the good news of the Gospel he began attending Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Upon his graduation Chad and Melanie moved to Greenville, South Carolina where Chad became the youth pastor at Grace Baptist Church. In 2007 GBC called Chad to serve as Associate Pastor. His passion is to make much of Christ through preaching, teaching, and building relationships with people. Chad and Melanie love the church and have been heavily involved in serving here for over 10 years. Together they have worked to see God’s people grow in grace and have given themselves to reach out to the lost with the Father’s compassion and the hope of the Gospel. They have three children – Jaxon, Grace and Eli – and are prayerfully and intentionally teaching them to be faithful followers of Jesus who love to share the good news of his life, death and resurrection with everyone they meet. |
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Paul Reader Paul has the unique privilege of working for the very church in which he grew up. God used Paul’s parents and the faithful ministry of Grace Baptist Church to lead him to trust Jesus at a young age. Paul attended Clemson University where he graduated in 2002 with a BA in German and International Trade. Upon graduation Paul worked for a local engineering firm and remained heavily involved in church ministry. During this time, Paul sensed that God was calling him to pursue full time ministry. The members of Grace Baptist Church confirmed his calling and in 2004 Paul moved to Pennsylvania to attend Westminster Seminary. In one of his first classes at Westminster Paul met his future wife Sonja. They married in 2006 and in 2008 Paul graduated with his Masters of Divinity. During his four years at seminary, Paul led the youth at Faith Reformed Baptist Church in Media, PA, and gained valuable ministry experience teaching, preaching, and counseling. Paul and his wife Sonja are very social people who love to build relationships. They can be found fellowshipping over coffee, tea, food, board and video games as well as film and theology nights with the high school and college young adults, all with the goal of seeing Jesus glorified and his people built up. |
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A member at Grace for over 10 years, Scott has served this body as an elder, worship leader, and Sunday School teacher. Scott met his wife Marsha working at the Wilds Christian Camp. Together they raised six children, and now enjoy spending time with their six grandkids. Scott attended Bob Jones University, as well as Trinity Ministerial Acadamy, has served as a youth pastor and pastor in the past, and has over 30 years of experience as a professional cabinet maker. His passion is to see the saints built up in faith as they worship the living God and disciple the nations to the glory of Jesus Christ. |
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Thomas Wessel Thomas was first introduced to his wife Edie while attending Furm Thomas has served as an adult Sunday School teacher, a choir member and, most recently, in college ministry. He has served as an elder for 20 years. Thomas' desire is to see Grace Baptist grow to be a cross-generational, cross-cultural, and cross-centered body of believers which successfully reaches the next generation and the broader community with the gospel. |
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David Reader David grew up in a family where his father’s job moved them all ove David has served the church as a children’s Sunday School teacher, treasurer, and, since 1995, as an elder at GBC. His desire is to see the youth of GBC come to know Jesus Christ as Savior and King so that God’s churches might be full and his joy might fill their lives. David and Kimi have a married son, two married daughters and a daughter still at home. |
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Jim Jordan On his first day at Furman University Jim met his wife Robin. They soon began attending Grace Baptist, the church in which they’ve served for the last 23 years. Jim and Robin share a passion for teaching both in the children’s ministry at GBC and in their occupations as middle school and elementary school teachers. Jim and Robin have two daughters, ages 13 and 11, with whom they share a love of good music, sports, and funny movies. Jim has served as an elder at GBC for seven years. His desire is to see the good news of Jesus radically transform the lives of believers so that they live passionately for the One whose love is better than life itself. |
Assistant to the Pastors
Scott Van Steenburgh
an University. After finishing at Furman, Thomas and Edie obtained their MD degrees from the Medical University of South Carolina. They were married in 1981 and two years later moved back to Greenville where they both completed their family medicine residencies. They have been members of Grace Baptist since 1984.
r the eastern US from Indiana to Florida. The family finally settled in Greenville, SC, and began attending Grace Baptist in 1972. David met his wife Kimi during his junior year at BJU and they married soon after. David ran a computer consulting business for 22 years before God called him (by means of a stroke) to slow down and give himself more fully to prayer and the service of the church.