LEADERSHIP

PASTOR

J (a shortened version of J.D, an even shorter version of Je... that's a secret) is a Nevadan and the sole reason his hometown has a curfew.  If it was wrong to do J has likely done it, even leading to him being imprisoned.  It was there that Jesus reminded J of his earlier confession of faith as a young child.  J figured that it was time to forsake all and trust Jesus.  God got J out from behind bars and placed him behind a podium preaching the Good News of Jesus all over the West.  He met and married his better half, Nicky, and they have ministered for over 20 years as missionaries.  They launched Faith in the Fall of 2012.  J likes cars, work projects, and his favorite NFL team is the New England Patriots.  J enjoys Tic-Tacs by the case and blowing Pastor Jim's mind with plans for the future!

PASTOR

Charles C. Woods, known to my family and childhood friends as Bubby. I was raised in Tuckerman, a small town in Arkansas. I lived there until 1977, and then I moved away to finish college in Missouri. I graduated from Tuckerman High School in 1973. Six months later, I attended Southern Baptist College (Williams Baptist College) in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. I received my associate of arts there. I married Christine, my wife, during that time.

After graduating from college, we moved to Bolivar, Missouri, to attend Southwest Baptist College (Southwest Baptist University), and I received my bachelor of arts in 1979. When I graduated from Southwest Baptist, Christine and I went to do missions in North Dakota for two years. We moved from North Dakota to Oklahoma to pastor Graham Baptist Church for four years. We moved again, this time to Kansas City, Missouri, to attend Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. In 1989, I graduated with my master of divinity degree.

We lived in Missouri for the next twenty years, pastoring at Trimble Baptist Church and Lawson Baptist Church. Then we went back into mission work, as the director of missions of Twin Rivers Baptist Association. While ministering there, I earned my master practitioner degree in neurolinguistic programming from LeadPlus, located in Woodstock, Georgia. We moved to California in 2006 to pastor at Linden Baptist Church and then to Marysville to pastor Feather River Baptist Church. While pastoring here, I am also the director of mission for the Sierra Butte Baptist Association. 

In June of 2025 we moved to Reno to            Co-Pastor at Faithministryreno.

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