Harry Maples

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1993-1995

Harry Maples was born into a Christian home in North Carolina and raised in a small-town Southern Baptist church. At the age of 28, God was pleased to save his soul. Five years later he received his Master of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and then began work to plant a church in Carthage, NY. Using dark providences, God compelled Harry to abandon the methodologies he'd learned in seminary, and he sought God's pleasure for the well being of this fragile church. In 1984 his prayers were answered when he was introduced to the doctrines of grace at a church Jim Renihan pastored. Harry labored for the next seven years to learn and teach these doctrines to the church. In 1993, he was invited to Worcester to start a Southern Baptist church where a work had previously failed. The small Heritage Baptist Church was gathered within a year and was soon joined by Jim Renihan and his family. Harry resigned as pastor in 1995 after his long struggle concerning his qualifications as an elder, and after receiving wise counsel from trusted and proven pastors. God mercifully provided Jim Renihan to shepherd the church where it continued to prosper and grow. In 2004, Harry moved back to North Carolina to care for his dying father.