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Pete Teel, Associate
Pastor
Pete was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in late fall
of 1966, but was relocated to the South (Alabama) at the age of 4. He
grew up in a city called Mobile and lived there for a good chunk of his
life. His grandparents, who lived next door, would take Pete to Sunday
school and worship services at a little Baptist church.
In 1995, following the death of a loved one, Pete began searching for
answers to questions of a spiritual nature. It was at this point that he
saw himself as a sinner in need of forgiveness from God, and he is most
thankful to say that he came into a personal relationship with God
through His son, Jesus.
One thing led to another and in 1997 Pete left his career as a sales
supervisor and took his wife and two children (with a third one on the
way) to Nazarene Bible College in Colorado Springs, CO to study and
prepare for full-time ministry. It was a wonderful, albeit, tough time
and one of the neat things that took place there was his meeting Butch
Bowersox, the founding pastor of New Beginnings Community Church.
Pete graduated from college with a Bachelor of Arts in Pastoral Ministry
and headed back south to pastor in the Church of the Nazarene where he
and his family made a lot of friends, saw God work in some pretty neat
ways and got to really grow in the Christian faith.
In December of 2005, during the course of a phone conversation, Butch
informed Pete that they were looking for an Associate Pastor to come on
board. Pete and his wife, Sandy, after prayerful consideration, came one
Sunday to New Beginnings to check it out. They both knew before they
left that morning that God was going too bring them here... and He did!
Pete, his wife (Sandra), and his daughters (Alicia, Kathleen, Grace, &
Rebecca) love it in Frostburg and hope to have many fruitful years of
ministry here.
As a family, they like to camp and cheer for the Washington
Redskins--although secretly, Pete is a Philadelphia Eagles fan! Pete
enjoys cooking Mexican and Italian foods and playing video games with
his girls and spending time outdoors in the cold weather.
The Teels have found the people of New Beginnings Community Church to be
a warm, fun-loving bunch that take their faith seriously and are more
interested in learning about how to live it out rather than impressing
others with it. Thanks for taking the time to learn a little about them
and if you are ever in Frostburg, be sure to look them up! According to
Pete, he just knows that Butch would love to buy you all a cup of
coffee!
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