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Single Adults Ministry
Goal:
To minister to the diverse needs of Single
Adults, help them experience Community and
participate in the life of First Baptist.
Community Ministry Goal:
To serve the physical, social, spiritual, and
emotional needs of our community in tangible
ways as a witness of the love of Christ, our
Savior.
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Stan Sanford was
born in Quantico, Virginia, into a military
family with three sisters. Stan spent preschool
years in California, and he started school in
North Carolina. Before he completed elementary
school, his family moved to South Georgia.
There he went through middle grades and
graduated high school. After a brief time at
the Georgia Institute of Technology, he joined
the U. S. Navy during the Viet Nam era for a
four year tour of duty. He graduated Baptist
Bible Institute (now the Baptist College of
Florida), Samford University, and the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary and holds the BA,
MDiv, and DMin degrees. He did additional
graduate studies at Georgia Southern University,
Atlantic Armstrong University, University of
South Florida, Florida State University, and
Troy State University-Dothan with extensive work
in behavioral disorders.
Stan spent
twenty-two years in pastoral ministry, ten years
in education as a teacher/educational
therapist/educational coordinator in public
schools, juvenile justice, and corrections. He
has worked two years as a mental health
therapist and two year as a consultant at a
behavioral hospital. For five years, he taught
philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and Bible
at Georgia Military College at Kings Bay,
Georgia. His additional work experience
includes agriculture, business, construction,
electronics, and shipping. He has serve on the
boards of numerous community service
organizations including Council on Aging,
Hospice, FEMA, and several children’s advocacy
groups, domestic violence, and social aid
groups.
Out of his
training, experience, and study of human
behavior, Stan has developed a program he calls
Choices: a Paradigm for Life. Choices
proposes to provide tools for living life as God
designed by helping people change the mental
pictures that direct their behavior in meeting
their needs most appropriately.
Stan joined the
staff at First Baptist Church, Dothan, August
2003, as Director of Community Ministries and
assumed additional duties as Minister to Singles
in September 2004. He and his wife, Robbie
(former Robbie Jean Heath of Enterprise, AL)
have six children and four grandchildren. |
