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Pastor Jerry A. Golden  Born in Omega Georgia in 1951.  Graduated from Tift County High School in 1969. Served in the US Army for 29 years retired as a Chief Warrant Officer 4. Worked as a Government contractor and bi-vocational pastor from 2000 till 2018 and retired from contractual work in July 2018 focusing his future on pastoral and missionary work.  Graduated from Central Texas College in 1985 with an Associated Degree in General Studies, from the University of Maryland in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management, and Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary with a Master of Arts Degree in Church Planting and Evangelism on 28 March 2011 and a Master of Divinity (MDIV) at Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary of Liberty University with a completion of August 2015.  Was licensed to Minister in July 2001 and then ordained into Ministry in 2002 through Hillsboro Heights Baptist Church, Southern Baptist Convention, in Huntsville Alabama. Served as English Pastor from 2002 to 2004 for the Daebong English Fellowship and also as the English Pastor for Pyunggang Presbyterian Church from 2003 to 2005. Selected to be the Senior Pastor of Daegu Faith International Church in 2005 and remain the Senior Pastor up till the present time. Daegu Faith is a Non-Denominational Church due to the inspired Christians that founded the church wanted it to be a Bible driven, Family and Mission focused church and not one driven by denominational practices and their laws.  Started missions in 2003 with my wife and I visiting the Philippines in Tacloban city a small orphanage our church and Golden Ministry was financially supporting. Then over the past 19 years we have started several churches in the Philippines, 2016 started a ministry in Cambodia and conducted 6 mission trips there to work with children, and young adults, then in 2018 visited South Africa and Swaziland now called Eswanti to provide mission support to African Continent Missions there run by a friend. Was also invited to return and be Dean of a small Bible college Immanuel International Bible College but the coronavirus put a halt on the Dean proposition. Since 2018 have also started and supported ministries in Thailand, Albania, South Africa, and Vietnam through prayers and financial support up to the present.