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Get to know us better:
This page is dedicated to introducing you to the leadership of our church. Photos and articles will be added as time allows.
You can also learn more about some of our congregation through their stories of how God changed their lives. Some of these testimonies can be found on this Video Gallery page.
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Rev.Henry and Angie Roberts
Rev. Henry Roberts came to Ashtabula in 1961 and founded the Church formerly
known as the Revival Center Church. He and Angie Pastored the Church for 22 years.
During that time theRevival Center held services in a renovated motorcycle club building, a small
white church
on Cook Road. Through the ministry of Rev. Henry Roberts the church expanded into the current church that is
now known as the Ashtabula Pentecostal Church of God which is located just down the road from the little white Church.
The Church has gone through many changes over the years but the message is
still the same. Pastor Henry and Angie are up in age now and their son Kenneth has
taken the mantle that was passed to him in 1983. You can read read more about the growth of our church
and the life of Rev. Henry Roberts on this page.
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Rev. Ken and Debbie Roberts
Rev. Kenneth Roberts is our Pastor and his wife Debbie. They have held the
position of Pastor for 28 years.
Rev. Roberts started his ministry as an Evangelist and traveled through most
of the United States ministering
in many Churches and preaching the Word. After eight years of Evangelizing
solo, he met and married Debbie
and they have 4 children, Hannah, Jonathan, Rachel, & Joshua.
Rev. Roberts Pastored a Church in Gray, Kentucky for 5 years before coming
here to what was formerly known
as the Revival Center Church. He felt the call to take over the Pastorate
from the former Pastor and founder
his father, Rev. Henry Roberts. Shortly thereafter, our Church joined the
Pentecostal Church of God of Joplin
Missouri, organization. The organization has afforded us many opportunities
that weren't available to us as
an independent Church. He is very active in reaching out to the community
and has a desire to reach
the hurting, the lost and discouraged. His ministry and foundational beliefs
are founded upon the Word of God.
His desire is to reach out with this Media Ministry to the lost of the
world.
Matthew 24:14 "And this Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the
world for a witness to all nations;
and then shall the end come."
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Rev.Frank Loeffel - Assistant Pastor & Youth Pastor
Rev. Frank Loeffel is our Assistant Pastor and Youth Pastor.
He is married to Tammy and they have three children.
Rev. Loeffel attended Mount Union College and received his Ministerial
License.
He also attended Berean Bible University and received a degree in Pastoral
Counseling.
He has been an active member of the the Ohio Educational Association, Safe
Sanctuaries,
and the American Association of Christian Counselors. Rev. Loeffel has also
been
the Assistant Pastor here for the past seven years.
Pastor Frank, as we refer to him, is deeply committed to evangelizing the
lost,
disciplining the found, and reaching the youth in our society. He believes we
must
create and sustain exciting and fulfilling programs as well as,
opportunities to
teach our youth about God's Word and how to apply it to their daily lives.
He is an active Youth Pastor also. He teaches the Sunday morning Teen Class
and
a Sunday evening Bible study class for the teens. He also incorporates
many activities throughout the year that encourage fellowship with other
Christian
teens and spiritual growth as well as simply having a good time.
Pastor Frank is very happy to be a part of the Ministry of the Ashtabula
PCG.
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Debbie Roberts - Assistant Worship Leader
Debbie Roberts, our Pastor's wife, is also our Assistant Worship Leader.
Debbie was formerly the Worship Leader for 12 years and decided to use her
talents
and abilities in other areas of Ministry in the church. She is now the
Assistant
to Connie and this allows her to have more time to devote to other things.
Debbie started singing in her Church at the age of eight and has never
stopped.
God has also blessed her with the ability to play the piano. Music has
always been
a part of her family life. When she was a child, her family had a singing
group.
She played the piano and her brothers played the guitars. Debbie's father
was also
a Minister and had a television program for six years, and then God took him
home. The children
who were older now, all sang on the TV program that aired on Lester
Sumerall's station,
out of South Bend, Indiana.
Worship is an important and necessary part of her life, she gives God all
the praise !
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Pat & Chrystal Bartone - Children's Ministry Directors
Pat and Chrystal Bartone are our Children's Ministry Directors. Pat, who is from Ashtabula and has been raised here at PCG (Revival Center), moved away in 1988 where he attended Life Bible College East and earned his Bachelor's degree in Theology. After college, he moved to Virginia and worked in Children's Ministry at the Assembly of God Church.
Chrystal was raised in Kentucky, where she grew up attending the Riverside Church of God and also spent her summers here in Ashtabula with her family and attended PCG. She has always been drawn to working with children from a young age. She volunteered in her home Church helping with children's plays and working with the children's choir.
Pat moved back to his home in Ashtabula in 2009 where he and Chrystal were married in 2010. Both came back to there home church here at PCG. They both knew that they wanted to impact the lives of children. They were honored when asked to take the Childrens Ministry position. Our children are the Church of tomorrow. They believe there is no greater joy than to see a child learn and grow in the knowledge of Jesus Christ or see a life that has been devastated by sin, turned around by the grace and mercy of God and made whole. That is why they want to reach out to our children. The Bible says in Proverbs 22:6 "Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.
That is their goal, to teach, train and be witnesses to children. For we know that Jesus said, "Suffer the little children to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of God."
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