{"id":59,"date":"2017-07-04T22:24:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T04:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.65.191.138\/?p=59"},"modified":"2025-01-05T14:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T20:00:15","slug":"meet-our-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblepreaching.church\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Meet Our Pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-867  alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/biblepreaching.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_0903-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biblepreaching.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_0903-2.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/biblepreaching.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_0903-2-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/biblepreaching.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_0903-2-113x150.jpeg 113w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>My name is Joe Cassada, I&#8217;m the founder and pastor of Solid Rock Baptist Church. I grew up in a military family and spent my childhood in places like Montana, Texas, Washington, Colorado, and Japan. I was privileged to be raised in a strong Christian home. As a teenager, I perceived that God was giving me a desire to serve Him in pastoral ministry. For many, many months I sought the Lord about it, and on April 8th, 1992 I made public my decision to be a Baptist preacher. The next fall I attended Hyles-Anderson College in Crown Point, Indiana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was in Bible college that I met my wife Kyla, and we were married in 1996. After college graduation, we moved to Saint Louis, Missouri to start Solid Rock Baptist Church. Whatever success I have enjoyed in ministry is because of God\u2019s grace and the unfailing love and inexhaustible patience of my lovely wife.<\/p>\n<p>Kyla and I have three children: Noah, Jubilee, and Moriah.<\/p>\n<p>Our family would be very happy to meet you and yours.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-863 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/biblepreaching.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1255-scaled-e1736105193530-1024x681.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biblepreaching.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1255-scaled-e1736105193530-1024x681.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/biblepreaching.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1255-scaled-e1736105193530-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/biblepreaching.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1255-scaled-e1736105193530-768x511.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/biblepreaching.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1255-scaled-e1736105193530-1536x1021.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/biblepreaching.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1255-scaled-e1736105193530-2048x1362.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/biblepreaching.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1255-scaled-e1736105193530-150x100.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Joe Cassada, I&#8217;m the founder and pastor of Solid Rock Baptist Church. I grew up in a military family and spent my childhood in places like Montana, Texas, Washington, Colorado, and Japan. I was privileged to be raised in a strong Christian home. As a teenager, I&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/biblepreaching.church\/?p=59\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblepreaching.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblepreaching.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblepreaching.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblepreaching.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblepreaching.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/biblepreaching.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/biblepreaching.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblepreaching.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblepreaching.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblepreaching.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}