{"id":71,"date":"2012-11-12T19:15:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T19:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.packsaddlefellowship.com\/?page_id=71"},"modified":"2018-10-11T08:25:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T13:25:44","slug":"senior-pastor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/packsaddlefellowship.com\/?page_id=71","title":{"rendered":"Senior Pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Billingslea<\/h2>\n
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Robert & Tulisa Billingslea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I put my faith in Christ at First Baptist Church in Conroe, Texas, when I was eight years old.\u00a0 By the time I reached high school, life was about my desires. I found fulfillment in moral and immoral ways which regularly left an aftertaste of emptiness. In the midst of my rebellion God began to draw me from my self-imposed darkness to a place of devotion.\u00a0 The process began with my reluctant participation in a church choir tour. I went as a favor to my parents yet on that tour God graciously showed me two things. First, I began to realize His unconditional love that surpassed anything the world had ever given me. Second, I began to realize God could use me in the lives of other people. In His love, I found myself drinking from a fountain that quenched the dryness in my heart. In His service, there was no shame or darkness, no bad aftertaste.<\/p>\n

On December 20, 1986, God graciously gave me the treasure of a loving wife. Our courtship and twenty-five\u00a0 years of marriage are a testimony of God\u2019s mercy and grace. I am blessed beyond measure to be married to my best friend, a woman deeply in love with the Lord.\u00a0 My wife Tulisa is an artist by trade and has a Bachelor of Arts in Sculpture from the University of North Texas.\u00a0 Our daughter Lauren is a graduate of Texas A&M and married Carson Talley, a naval officer, last year. She now lives in Virginia. Our son George attends Llano High School.<\/p>\n

Aimed at God\u2019s glory, I endeavor to cultivate a body of believers passionate to proclaim the gospel of Christ and to fulfill the commission of Christ by means of abiding in Christ. I envision a church of growing believers well known in their neighborhood and workplace for their kindness and love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert Billingslea I put my faith in Christ at First Baptist Church in Conroe, Texas, when I was eight years old.\u00a0 By the time I reached high school, life was about my desires. I found fulfillment in moral and immoral ways which regularly left an aftertaste of emptiness. In the midst of my rebellion God…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-71","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packsaddlefellowship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packsaddlefellowship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packsaddlefellowship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packsaddlefellowship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packsaddlefellowship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/packsaddlefellowship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1685,"href":"https:\/\/packsaddlefellowship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions\/1685"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packsaddlefellowship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packsaddlefellowship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}