§ The Rev. David Ford will begin his bivocational ministry at Huntly Memorial Baptist Church in Niles on August 1. David and his wife Rebecca express their excitement about returning to Michigan to serve the Lord after being gone for 30 years. God redeemed David from over 25 years of drug addiction and called him into ministry in 1981, which David answered in 1991. He spent two years at K-State and transferred to Friends College where he received a B.S. Business Management with a major in Human Resources Management. After that, he took some introductory courses from Luther Rice Seminary and moved on to Central Theological Seminary in Kansas City for a short time, followed by continuing education, and was ordained in April 2007. David has served at Southwest Topeka Baptist Church for almost 5 years and then spent almost two years doing independent evangelistic non-denominational pulpit supply, then, accepted a call to First Baptist Church of St. John, KS where he served for 7+ years. Following his resignation there, he has served in three different churches in the Central Region as an Interim Minister, including his present posting at Central Baptist of Great Bend, KS. He has also served as President of the local Ministerial alliance and a 4 year stretch on the Board of Directors of ABCCR. His calling is to a ministry of reconciliation to relationship in Christ and to preach and teach the truths of the Gospel of Christ as led by the Holy Spirit. David has two children; the oldest, a daughter, in 1971, who now resides in Marion, IN, and a son, who was killed in an accident at the age of eight & a half in 1982. He also has three grandchildren.