Our Staff
Douglas Hammett
Senior Pastor
Pastor Hammett was raised in Kansas. A few months after being saved in April of 1971, he graduated from Salina South High School in Salina, Kansas, USA. The following year he felt the call of God to preach and entered Southwest Baptist University, Redford School of Theology at Bolivar, Missouri. In 1973 he began working in a Lake Ministry with the 1st Baptist Church of Kimberling City, Missouri. The following year, in addition to the Lake Ministry, he became the pastor of Concord Baptist Church, Walnut Grove, Missouri, and continued his education. In 1975 he graduated from the Redford School of Theology with a Certificate in Theology. He then pastored in Missouri and in Colorado and began starting churches in the areas where he served. He graduated in the Doctor of Ministry program at Great Plains Baptist Graduate School of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He has taught as the Head of the Theology Department at Fellowship Baptist College (East Peoria, IL) while starting churches in the state of Illinois. He started several churches and pastored in the mid-west before coming to Lehigh Valley Baptist Church in January of 1988.
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Roland Hammett
Assistant Pastor
Pastor Roland Hammett joined the staff of Lehigh Valley Baptist Church in 1999 and served the church as youth pastor until he became assistant pastor in 2007. Roland came to Lehigh Valley Baptist Church with his family as young teenager. A few years later, he surrendered to the call of God to the ministry. He graudated from Emmaus Baptist Academy in 1996 and the Lehigh Valley Baptist Bible Institue in 1998 with a bachelors degree in Theology. He spent about a year interning at churches across the country before joining the staff of our church, full-time, in 1999 as the youth pastor. In 2007, he spent six months on a short term missions trip in the country of Finland, and now is continuing his service to our church as assistant pastor.
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Assistants to the Pastor
John Nadaskay
Brother John came on staff from the business world at the end of 2006 to fill Pastor Roland's position as the youth director. He was saved at the Lehigh Valley Baptist Church during a revival meeting after realizing that, even after growing up in a pastors home, he was not truly born again. In addition to helping with the youth, Brother Nadaskay also lends his skills in the areas of finance and administration.
Chris Gable
Chris Gable spent the majority of his growing up years at the church. His parents were saved here in 1982 and were sent out of Lehigh Valley Baptist Curch to plant Haven Baptist Church in 1999. He was saved as a teenager in the summer of 1998, and three years later graduated from Emmaus Baptist Academy. After graduating from college with a degree in technology, he began working at the church in 2003. A few months later, he surrendered to the call of God to the ministry and is currently completing his ministry training through the Lehigh Valley Baptist Bible Institute.
Nat Williams
Nat Williams joined the staff of Lehigh Valley Baptist Church in 2007. He is currently training for the ministry in the Lehigh Valley Baptist Bible Institute. In the spring of 2003, Nat surrendered to the call of God on his life to labor on the foreign mission field. He graduated from Baptist Bible Translator's Institute in 2004 with a burden for the people of Thailand and SE Asia. As Nat prepares for ministry abroad, his current focus is on helping other like-minded missionaries and churches through the operation of our World Missions Resource Center.
Tim Anger
Emmaus Baptist Academy Principal
Tim Anger has faithfully served Lehigh Valley Baptist Church and Emmaus Baptist Academy for almost 20 years. He teaches the upper level math and science courses, administrates the K-12 Academy, teaches education courses in the Bible Institute, and oversees the children's ministries of the church. Though he grew up in a pastor's home and had made a profession as a young teen, it was later as an adult that he truly saw his lost condition and put his trust in Christ for salvation.