By the time Bruce Hose retires Dec. 31 he will have served in ministry for 50 years.
Hose, pastor of Glynwood Baptist Church, Prattville, since 2008, earned a bachelor’s degree from Athens College (now Athens State University) and a master’s degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
His first church to serve out of seminary was York Terrace Baptist Church, Sheffield, where he served as minister of education. Hose also served as pastor of First Baptist Church, Union Springs, and executive pastor of First Baptist Church, Montgomery, and later spent 14 years serving in the Sunday School office of the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions. While attending seminary Hose served churches in Kentucky.
Something Hose said the Lord has taught him throughout his years in ministry is that “people matter to God.”
“If we’re going to be obedient to the Lord then people have to matter to us as well,” he said. “The focus of our entire ministry has to be on people — equipping them to do the work of the Church.”
Hose said he plans to serve in ministry after retirement and is “waiting for God to reveal to us what He’d like for us to do.”
He and his wife, Gini, have two children and three grandchildren and will move to Birmingham in early 2017.
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