Graduate Profile: Samuel Barber, M.T.S.

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My name is Sam Barber. My wife, Jessie, and I live in Rincon, GA and are expecting a son, our first child, in April 2016. We are members of Ephesus Church and enjoy building a family for the kingdom of God here. Full-time, I am a teacher at a Classical Christian school in Savannah where I teach Latin and Greek. I also work part-time for the church as pastoral assistant to Nick Kennicott at Ephesus Church in Rincon, Georgia. 

I am involved in a few different areas of ministry at Ephesus. For example, I plan and lead our weekly worship services. I also lead one of our mid-week small groups and a monthly bible study with our student ministry. I’m very excited to be a part of developing an outreach/evangelism ministry to our community. This includes praying for our community and the nations of the world during a monthly missions meeting, passing out Bibles and tracts in downtown Savannah, and a weekly effort to minister at our local abortion mill).

Practically, RBS has been instrumental in expanding my trust in and love for the Word of God. Every class I take confirms and reaffirms that the gospel is the power of God unto salvation for everyone who believes. Every ounce of ministry that I do is strengthened by the knowledge that God’s word accomplishes the work for which it is sent, and I thank God for Reformed Baptist Seminary and the emphasis on the authority, necessity, and sufficiency of the Word of God. I have also benefited from the school’s emphasis on experimental Christianity. The classes at RBS are not only academically rigorous, but are experientially rewarding. I believe that they have made me a more practical and pastoral student and teacher of the word of God.

Lastly, my future hopes and plans are simple. I want to devote my life to the ministry of the gospel wherever in the world that may be. I love the Savannah area and I would love to spend years raising a family and being a part of the work that God is doing here, but I am content to go wherever I am most useful for the advancement of God’s Kingdom.

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Bob Gonzales

Bob Gonzales has served as a pastor of four Reformed Baptist congregations and has been the Academic Dean and a professor since 2005. He is the author of Where Sin Abounds: the Spread of Sin and the Curse in Genesis with Special Focus on the Patriarchal Narratives and has contributed to the Reformed Baptist Theological Review, The Founders Journal, and Westminster Theological Journal. Dr Gonzales is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society. He and his wife, Becky, reside in Boca Raton, Florida.