Dr. Mike Renihan is the present pastor at Heritage Baptist Church. He
studied at Worcester State College (B.A. in History); Reformed
Theological Seminary (MA); Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University, and the
University of Coventry, England (M. Phil and PhD). He is an Adjunct
Professor of History at Worcester State College.
Dr. Jim Renihan, his wife, Lynne, and their children began attending
Heritage Baptist Church in July 1994. Beginning with the first Lord's
Day of January 1995, Jim taught Sunday School, and was asked to begin
preaching on a regular basis at the end of May 1995.
Pastor Ron Baines was born in Massachusetts, raised marginally Roman
Catholic, and was saved at 19 years old while serving in the US Navy.
Upon completing Naval duty he spent eight months on a missions trip in
Zambia Africa where he met his wife, Joan.
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.