Pastor Ron Baines

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2001-2004

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. He then served in a small church in a support capacity for four years in Joan's hometown of Rossland, British Columbia, Canada, before taking up duties as an engineer in the aerospace industry in Connecticut. In 1989 he was called to bi-vocationally pastor Westfield Reformed Baptist Fellowship in Massachusetts. It was during these years that Ron came to understand more fully the basics of Reformed Theology and also came to know Harry Maples, Jim and Mike Renihan, and Heritage Baptist Church. After 10 years, the work in Westfield closed and Ron, Joan, and their four children moved to Worcester to assist Pastor Mike in the public ministry of the Word. In early 2001, Ron became Co-Pastor with Mike and continued until late 2004 when he received the call to pastor Grace Community Church of West Bath, Maine.