Our Pastor

Pastor Corban & Hannah Butler

Our Testimony

Corban

I was blessed to grow up in a church planters' home in Millersburg, OH. At the age of 12, I realized that my sin had a penalty that needed to be paid in a place called hell. After two weeks of not being able to fall asleep because of the conviction on my life, I went to my mother on October 20th, 2004, and at 10:12 pm I asked Jesus to come into my heart and save me from my sin. Just a couple of years later at the age of 17, I surrendered to the call to preach on November 7th, 2010 after hearing a message from Evangelist George Griffis. This commitment to the Lord's work came after two years of running from the Lord, chasing after my own personal dreams. In the fall of 2011, I enrolled in Massillon Baptist College, where I graduated in 2014, with a degree in Pastoral Theology.

Hannah

As a young girl, I had heard the gospel many times throughout the years from extended family members. Because I was not brought up in church the Gospel never made its way to my heart. Through a rough upbringing, I went down a path at the age of 18 that led me to cry out to the God I "knew about" and say "If there is a God please show me because I can't do this anymore". Not long after that, I ran into my grandparents who I hadn't spoken to in a while. They were faithful members of a good Independent Baptist Church. I remembered them one night as I sat in a house where people who I didn't really know, and who surely didn't care about me, surrounded me. I called my grandparents and asked them if they could get me something to eat because I had not eaten in a while. From there they took me into their home. They always invited me to church and one night I went. After a few times going something just clicked with me that what I was searching for could only be found in Jesus Christ and that I was in fact lost. For the first time, I realized that I knew about Jesus but never believed on Him from my heart. One Sunday after church we went back to the house and I sat on the bed and cried out to Jesus to save me. I did not realize how vastly my life would change. Just two short months after getting saved I enrolled in the Massillon Baptist College where I graduated with a degree in Missions. I praise God for saving me and changing me and giving me the opportunity and honor of serving Him.

Corban & Hannah

Just three weeks after graduating college we were married and immediately began working in two different ministries, the Massillon Baptist College, and the Sandy Valley Baptist Temple(Youth Pastor). At the Massillon Baptist College, we served for two years as the college representatives traveling Monday through Thursday going into Christian Schools, camps, and churches all across the country. In the summer of 2016, we were asked to be the ladies' dormitory supervisors and also to teach in the college and the Christian school. In 2018, the Lord burdened our hearts to go into inner-city church planting. The Lord moved us to Tampa, FL, to work with Pastor Kerry Nance and the Southside Baptist Church. After working on staff for one year the Southside Baptist Church commissioned us to the Northeast side of Tampa to plant the Lighthouse Baptist Church. The Lord truly blessed in this ministry and the church is still moving forward today. At the end of 2023, I was asked to pray about returning to Massillon Baptist Temple to become the next Pastor. It was never our plan to leave Tampa, but the Lord had different plans. So in May of 2024, we moved back to Ohio with a fresh vision for the Massillon Baptist Temple and the ministries associated with it.