The Maine-iac Preacher would
appreciate hearing from you.
Email me at: philjell@yahoo.com
Call me at: 813-715-1407
II Thes 4:16-17
Phil Jellerson
I was born in Bangor, Maine in 1938. I graduated from Hermon High School, Hermon,
Maine in 1957. Upon graduation I went on active duty in the U.S. Navy accumulating over
nine years of service. I was stationed in Charleston, SC - Pensacola, FL - Ft. George G.
Meade, MD - Bermuda - Adak, Alaska, and Kamiseya, Japan.
I received a medical discharge from the U.S. Navy in l965 due to an anxiety disorder
which afflicted me for several years before a gracious God gave me victory over it. Shortly
after returning home I met my wife, Donna. We have enjoyed wedded life for fifty three
years. The Lord blessed us with five children of which three have gone to heaven.
The Lord saved me in 1975 and called me to attend Baptist Bible college in Springfield,
MO in 1976. After Bible college we went to Vermont where I started a church in Springfield.
A few years later we moved to Claremont, NH where I started another church. In 1991 we
left New Hampshire for Florida - we were weary of the winters. The Lord opened a preaching
and teaching position for me in a church in Zephyrhills, FL.
In the summer of 1995 my wife suffered a stroke. As mothers are, she wanted to be near
her children who were elsewhere. That December we moved to Luray, VA where a son and
daughter-in-law were living. We arrived on Christmas day during a three feet snow storm.
Again the Lord led me to a church with opportunity for preaching and teaching.
My wife's parents lived in Florida and her mother was quite ill. We packed up and re-
returned to Florida. This was on Thanksgiving of 2004 and here we have remained. We have
been members of four Baptist churches since our return to Florida in 2004. In the last three
I have substituted for the pastors and taught Sunday School. Presently I am associate Pastor
and have been teaching Sunday School over two and a half years.
We have this little responsive speech at our church that goes like this. The Pastor will say
"God is good" and the congregation will respond "all the time." The Pastor will then say "all
the time," and the congregation replies "God is good." That is my capstone testimony -
God is good!