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Pastor Roger & Debbie Fyock, Grandaughter (ZOE)
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Background on how Debbie and I got together
and how Outreach Church got started.
Both Debbie and I were raised up in the Church. She was a shy little Southern
Baptist girl and I was a backslidden Pentecostal boy raised up in the Church of
God and the Assemblies of God. God called me to preach when I was 10 years
old and my Pastor at that time gave me the opportunity to preach 2 sermons
in the little church I belonged to.
By the age of 15, my life began to quickly turnaround and I found myself out of
the church and living in sin. As many teenagers do, I turned to smoking, drinking, and wild woman (well, the girls that I dated weren really all that wild but I got pretty wild).
Debbie and I met at work, dated for about 4 or 5 months and married 2 months
later on Sept. 2, 1979. My wife robbed the cradle, I was barely 18. An event
took place on New Year Eve night of that year with another couple that was
suppose to spend the evening with us and usher the New Year in together,
(they never showed up, never called, and later, never apologized for not
showing up). God used that night to let me know what kind of friends in the
world that I had. He dealt with me for 3 weeks, and on that Sunday morning, I
got up, got dressed and told Debbie that we were going to MY Church.
Reluctantly, Debbie went with me that morning and our lives have never been
the same since.
Our oldest son, Little Roger, was born on Sept. 15, 1980 and I later became
the Youth Pastor of our Church at the Assemblies of God in Lake Alfred, Fl.
where God blessed us tremendously. One year later God opened up a door
for Debbie and I to go into Full-Time ministry. I became the Youth Pastor,
maintenance man and toilet cleaner at Glad Tidings Tabernacle (Assemblies
of God) in Key West, Fl. and Debbie got a job at the Church as a daycare worker.
This is where we met Bubba and Sista (Mike and Terry Linderman).
We had a wonderful ministry there and once again God blessed us and the Youth Group. For the 2nd time, we had started out with about 5-8 kids and within less than a year we had 40 young people in our youth group.
In the summer of 1984 God called Debbie and I to Pastor a Church. We moved
back to our home in Auburndale, Fl. and started a Church in Lake Alfred, Fl.
Debbie had been having trouble conceiving children and had experienced
4 or 5 miscarriages that nearly split up our marriage until God gave us a miracle
and our middle son Matthew was born on March 23, 1985.
We pastored that little church in Lake Alfred for 2 years and then the worst
day in my life happened. I was told by God to resign my pastorate at the church due to my financial woes and a failing Trucking Business that I had (He was teaching me that my family came first). Shortly after that I had an accident where I rolled over my Tractor Trailer just below Norfolk, Va. The semi and trailer was totaled and Debbie and I lost everything that we had in the
business which amounted to about $15,000 at the time.
After that I went through a couple of more truck driving jobs with other trucking
company and then our youngest son Caleb was born on Sept. 9, 1986. I quit
driving a truck and started back in the lawn business for the 2nd time.
Then the nightmares began. In the spring of 1990, Matthew had a severe
accident that left him in a coma for 3 days and the doctors gave him up for died.
On the 8 day the doctor said that if he kept progressing as he was that he
could be released in about 6 weeks, bound in a wheel chair, mentally retarded and
would be in need of assistance to live the rest of his life (Debbie and I refused to
believe the bad report, we agreed with God Word and chose life for our son).
2 to 3 days later we wheeled Matthew outside the hospital, and made him get
out of the chair and get in the car and we took him home healed in Jesus name.
In 1992, I bought a lawn, Garden & Feed Store that bellied up after one year.
We started a pet shop while I was filing bankruptcy on the feed store to try and
make a come back from all the loses that we had occurred. We sold the pet
shop within the year due to a lack of income and I decided to just stick to mowing yards.
A home bible study group began to meet in January of 1994 in our home with my
wife, 3 boys, my Mom, Brother Don and Sister Geraldine. As the number
increased it was decided to begin a church ministry. We launched out and
rented a church building with about 25 members with a vision for preaching and
teaching the Word of God to the community and to make an impact on this
society. The Church was called /SPAN>Street Outreach Centerand was Incorporated
on Feb. 15, 1995. The name was changed to /SPAN>Outreach Worship Centerin
Sept. of 1995.
During the Christmas Holidays on Friday, Dec. 22, 1995, Debbie received a
phone call at her work, just before noon that knocked her off her feet (literally).
She got word that her husband (that me) was involved in a gas explosion that
left me with 2nd and 3rd degree burns over 24% of my body and that I had
suffered a shattered wrist and a broken neck as the result of a 20 ft. jump out
of a front end loader.
For 8 years Outreach Worship Center has shared Church facilities with The
Church of God at 121 W. Bridgers Ave in Auburndale, Fl. (just a couple of blocks west of here). And in August of 2002, God blessed us with this old building. With $6,000 in our building fund, who would have guest that would have been enough money to put as a down payment on a commercial building (with God, All things are possible). And with no credit established, our church received owner financing for 10 years at 6% interest instead of the 8% that we asked for. We immediately began to remodel and beautify the facilities and with everyone in our Church sacrificing their time and hard earned money (over and above their tithes), pulling and working together with the help of God we have come this far without borrowing any more money or getting in debt in any way!
If you would like to read the rest of this story about me and our church, go to:
www.TheOutreach.com
and click on the button on the left that say's- OUR STORY
If you have a something that you would like our Church to PRAY with you about, just go to our church website and click on- PRAYER NEEDS?
and we will be sure to pray for you.
If you are ever in the Central Florida Area, We invite you to join us!
If you would like to help our church to fulfill its Vision with a Financial gift of any size you can do so by going to:
http://www.theoutreach.com/contributions.asp
and give online or you can get our mailing address to give by check or money order and send by snail mail.
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