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Dan and Robin Parton are 1979 graduates of Hyles-Anderson College in Crown Point, Indiana. Upon graduation, they started into full-time service. Brother Parton received a Bachelor of Science degree in Pastoral Theology and served as an assistant pastor for eleven years before becoming the pastor of the Timberline Baptist Church on Fathers' Day, 1990. He served as a youth pastor for eight and a half of those eleven years and now believes he has the best of both worlds in pastoring.
Dan & Robin were married on June 9, 1978. Robin was born February 27, 1957, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She was saved on August 4, 1974, and baptized on August 11, 1974. She graduated from Hyles-Anderson College with highest honors and a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education. After graduation, she taught kindergarten while Brother Parton served as a youth pastor. When it was time to rear a family, she stopped teaching and pursued a career as a pastor's wife and mother.
Brother Parton was born in Harriman, Tennessee, on October 16, 1955. He was saved at the age of eight on February 16, 1964, at Faith Baptist Church, now called Heather Hills Baptist Church, in Indianapolis, Indiana. It was during the Billy Kellough evangelistic meetings, a deacon named Ben Conrad led him to Christ. Ben served faithfully in that church until he went to Heaven in May, 2006. He was then baptized by immersion on April 5, 1964. Pastor Glen Eveland was his pastor during his teen years. Pastor Eveland had invited Dr. Tom Wallace to preach, and, on February 9, 1973, Brother Parton surrendered his life to serve the Lord. He graduated from Warren Central High School in Indianapolis, Indiana, in June of 1974. He was licensed to preach by the First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana, on May 19, 1978, and ordained to the Gospel ministry by the First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana, on May 25, 1979. During Bible College, he was listed in "Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities."
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