More about Marty and Pam Masitto
Pam and I were marching band sweethearts in our junior year of high school. I played drums, and she played the french horn. We broke up following our junior year with the vow to never see one another again! Four years later, after I was drafted into the Army and Pam completed X-ray school at Ohio University, we got back together. We eloped to Michigan and were married December 20, 1969. Our “honeymoon” consisted of three months at Fort Lewis in the state of Washington where I served as a Drill Instructor. I was then sent overseas to Vietnam March 1970. Neither of us knew the Lord at this point in our lives.
Salvation
My wife met a patient while I was overseas that befriended her. This Christian lady would invite my wife over to have dinner with her family. This exposure to a real Christian family gave Pam the desire to have the same one day herself. I, on the other hand, saw no real need for God. I rationalized that God was in your head. You simply credited your good to God and your bad to the devil, and when you die, you just cease existing and turn to dust. A booby trap on a Ranger mission in Vietnam brought me face-to-face with death and my philosophy did not hold. I could not believe Marty Masitto was going to cease existing if he died, and I was not ready for what lay ahead.
Upon returning to the States, we started our family and desired a church to have our soon-to-come baby baptized. Pam’s Christian friend invited us not only to their home for excellent meals but also to their church where we heard for the first time a clear presentation of the Gospel. Pam was saved in our living room a few weeks later, and I was saved while alone in our bedroom six weeks after her. We were the ones then baptized, just after the birth of our first daughter.
Call to Ministry
The things of earth grew strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace! We quit our job, broke the contract on the house we were buying, sold our possessions (including a 1938 Chevy five window coupe) and head to Appalachian Bible College to learn God’s Word and prepare for ministry. That was in 1972, over forty years, seven children, ten grandchildren, and five churches (OH, IN, PA, MS, FL) ago. It has been a joy in current years serving through FellowHelper Ministries by helping churches without pastors get back on their feet and move into their future.
Colleges Attended
I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Bible and Theology in 1976 from Appalachian Bible College in Beckley, WV, and I am currently halfway through the Masters of Ministry program from Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC.
Pam and I were marching band sweethearts in our junior year of high school. I played drums, and she played the french horn. We broke up following our junior year with the vow to never see one another again! Four years later, after I was drafted into the Army and Pam completed X-ray school at Ohio University, we got back together. We eloped to Michigan and were married December 20, 1969. Our “honeymoon” consisted of three months at Fort Lewis in the state of Washington where I served as a Drill Instructor. I was then sent overseas to Vietnam March 1970. Neither of us knew the Lord at this point in our lives.
Salvation
My wife met a patient while I was overseas that befriended her. This Christian lady would invite my wife over to have dinner with her family. This exposure to a real Christian family gave Pam the desire to have the same one day herself. I, on the other hand, saw no real need for God. I rationalized that God was in your head. You simply credited your good to God and your bad to the devil, and when you die, you just cease existing and turn to dust. A booby trap on a Ranger mission in Vietnam brought me face-to-face with death and my philosophy did not hold. I could not believe Marty Masitto was going to cease existing if he died, and I was not ready for what lay ahead.
Upon returning to the States, we started our family and desired a church to have our soon-to-come baby baptized. Pam’s Christian friend invited us not only to their home for excellent meals but also to their church where we heard for the first time a clear presentation of the Gospel. Pam was saved in our living room a few weeks later, and I was saved while alone in our bedroom six weeks after her. We were the ones then baptized, just after the birth of our first daughter.
Call to Ministry
The things of earth grew strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace! We quit our job, broke the contract on the house we were buying, sold our possessions (including a 1938 Chevy five window coupe) and head to Appalachian Bible College to learn God’s Word and prepare for ministry. That was in 1972, over forty years, seven children, ten grandchildren, and five churches (OH, IN, PA, MS, FL) ago. It has been a joy in current years serving through FellowHelper Ministries by helping churches without pastors get back on their feet and move into their future.
Colleges Attended
I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Bible and Theology in 1976 from Appalachian Bible College in Beckley, WV, and I am currently halfway through the Masters of Ministry program from Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC.