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Biography - Bruce Seivers

Pastor Bruce was born and raised in a Christian home in rural Western Pennsylvania. As a child and teenager he enjoyed hunting, fishing and running a trap line. He studied in a vocational school and there learned the basic skills of a machinist. After high school he entered an apprenticeship as a machinist. From that position God called him out of the machine shop and into vocational Christian ministry.

At twelve years of age Pastor Bruce met his wife, LuAnn, in a Daily Vacation Bible School in Portersville Bible Church, Porterville, PA. He has never dated anyone but LuAnn and in 1986 at 20 years of age they were married. It was just two years later that God took them to Appalachian Bible College. After 4 years in Bible College they moved to West Union, WV to pastor the church to which he had been ministering throughout his senior year in college. After almost 7 years in West Union, they moved to Fairfield, OH.

God has blessed Pastor Bruce and LuAnn with 5 children which they home school.

Pastor's Testimony

I grew up in a Christian family in Western Pennsylvania. This has positively influenced many aspects of my life. It was as a small boy that I was saved as my Dad led me to Christ. I can remember little except the bunk bed, the bedroom, and my Dad and me sitting on the bed. As a child and teenager I frequently doubted my salvation and repeatedly “prayed the sinner’s prayer.”

In June of 1988 at a revival meeting this whole matter was settled. As the preaching drew to a close on that first Sunday service my heart was broken and I wanted things cleared up. I thought (again) that I needed to be saved. I even prayed “the sinner’s prayer” (again). However, as a result my spiritual life was in turmoil. After spending that day and the next in prayer and thought, I realized that I didn’t need to accept Christ. I needed to surrender to Him in various areas of my life. I was sure that I had been saved as a boy and the testimony of my Pastor helped me confirm that understanding. Many things happened that week. It was the start of a consistent life of Christian growth.

As much as a year earlier I was aware of God working in my heart but I didn’t always understand what He was doing. My goal, not only being a good Journeyman machinist but the best in our shop, suddenly became worthless. God used a familiar poem to keep the matter before me. “Only one life ‘twill soon be past, only what’s done for Christ will last.” There is one day that stands above the rest. It was the day that I considered my goals and came to this conclusion concerning them: “So what!” What would it matter if I did become the best machinist in the whole world? Not only was I totally discontented with thoughts of a lifetime as a machinist but there was also a gnawing assurance that I needed to be in full time vocational ministry. It was a drive. I had thought of it at times in the past but now I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I was convinced that in order to obey God I must become a vocational minister of the Gospel.

God used that week of revival meetings to also make me consider going to college full time, an option that was never high on my priority list. In August 1988, my wife and I enrolled at Appalachian Bible College.

Since that time we have ministered in platform Daily Vacation Bible Schools and speaking in camps, as children’s workers in our church, youth leader and pulpit supply. I have been in pastoral ministry since 1991 starting in West Virginia and then coming to Valley Chapel in 1999. My continual desire is to be used by my God, the one whom I worship, serve and seek to obey. My heartbeat is to see God’s people be what they ought to be according to the Bible and I passionately seek to teach the sufficient Word of God with clarity and conviction. I trust He will use me as He sees fit.

“It Pleases Me to Help You Please Him”

"That you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God..." Colossians 1:10

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