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"Reclaiming
the Church
&
Family
For Christ"
I'm Rev. Robert
John Kuiphoff (Pastor K) and my wife of 44 years plus is
Mary Diane Kuiphoff.
The
Lord given us the desire to reclaim His Church and Christian families for Christ.
We must work hard
"now" to accomplish that.
I
accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior, was "Born
Again" in 1955, when I was 12 years old. In
1978 I had the wonderful privilege of leading my wife to Jesus
Christ as her personal Lord and Savior. Mary was "Born
Again" at 35 years of age.
Ordained
March 7, 1982
as Pastor and Minister of the Word of God
in the Independent Baptist Church that my family and I
were members of and served for a number of years. Since my
ordination I have served as Senior Pastor and Interim Pastor
of Baptist and Bible Churches in Upper and Lower Michigan, invited
guest speaker for Pastor conferences, Administrator of a
K-12 Christian School; Shepherding and tutoring Christian
Home education students; Senior Chaplain of a County Jail
system and a voting "board member" and
"Chaplain" of two Upper Peninsula of Michigan
County Boards. Under the leadership and direction of the
Holy Spirit, reorganized and planted a Bible Church in Lower
Michigan.
Over
the years the Lord has privileged me with the blessings of leading
men and women, Dads and Moms, Grandpas and Grandmas, boys and
girls to Christ for their personal Salvation; Disciplining
men and women in their personal Christian walk and
service; Reconciling marriages and Ministering the Word of
God to Pastors and Christian leaders one-on-one and at Pastor's
seminars.
My education includes:
*Graduate of Grand Rapids Baptist College, Dean's list where I
also attended Seminary.
*As a family, we attended New Tribes Mission
Institute completing the intense course in
Systematic Theology, Bible Doctrine and Boot Camp which included jungle
training.
*LeTourneau College with Construction
Technology as the major immediately after graduation
from High School.
*Journeyman trained and certified Tool and Die
Maker in die making and high-speed automation
Western Michigan
University and Fisher Body Corporation,
Division of General Motors,
Kalamazoo, Michigan.
*Michigan
State University, Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids, Michigan, Real
Estate I and II.
My
wife and I have been married 44 years, plus. Our
three sons are married and have blessed us with six
grandchildren. The Lord has prepared my wife to be a very
able and capable co-laborer with me in the work of the
ministry. Young ladies, wives and grandmothers can learn
much from her wisdom and experience as a successful wife, mother,
business employee, business owner and office manager.
My wife and are are
not stuffy old codgers who have never lived in the "REAL" world,
My
work history
includes:
*Following the Apostle Paul's example of being a tent maker and
the Apostle Luke's example of being
a Physician, we've owned and
managed JIL
Enterprise, L.
L. C. since 1991.
*As a Certified Cash Flow Consultant / Broker (CCFC) we began Asset Cash Flow
Funding, L.L.C.
(www.AssetCashFlow.com)
in 2004 and expanded our business in 2006 to include ACF Funding
Equipment Leases, L.L.C.
(www.FundingEquipmentLeases.com)
*Mary is a
Certified
Professional
Secretary [CPS],
Executive
Administrative
Secretary for three
Vice-Presidents and Office Manager over 27 professionals for a major Insurance and Financial
Corporation in Mid-town, Manhattan;
*Management and
conflict
management
consultant from
a Biblical
perspective;
*Superintendent
of Tool and
Die, automotive
manufacturing;
*Plant
Superintendent,
automotive
manufacturing;
*Superintendent
of
construction,
mall
renovation;
*Journeyman Die
Maker and High
Speed
Automation Specialist;
*Journeyman
rough and
finish
carpenter;
*We grew up in farming communities. In my youth,
beginning at 10
years of age through high school,
I worked for
several area
farmers, the local farm livestock auction barn and our
local
automotive
service station. Mary worked for blueberry farmers
picking blueberries.
We've
stayed in touch
with the 21st. century. I enjoy down
hill skiing and my wife and I both enjoy:
** off road 4-wheeling;
** mountain biking
** basketball
** volleyball
** softball / baseball
** children
** young folks
** and young and old married events {especially the young married and
their events).
We
live in the same "real" world that you live in and have all
of our lives and know from experience the curves that life can throw
at us:
I
was seriously injured in an industrial accident in 1968 and again in
1991. I have been
hospitalized and have had numerous surgeries since that injury. That
I enjoy down
hill skiing is present tense not,
use to enjoy down hill skiing.
Mary
is a three-time cancer survivor having undergone Chemo-therapy,
Rutixin Therapy, Radiation Therapy and a lobectomy. You
will never know when you meet my wife that she has ever had a day of illness
in her life.
We've
lost loved ones and we've had family issues also.
Strange
as it may sound to you, some Pastors and their wives are actually humanoids
too and we are definitely humanoids! Mary and I
have so very much that we can share with you personally or with your
Church family about life and our Lord's ever present watch care over us;
His promised and never failing minute by minute daily provisions for our
lives and the victories He promotes, provides and enjoys through us in and
through life's speed bumps!! We
can draw on our life's experiences to encourage, counsel and help you in
yours!! The following verse is a major verse in Mary's and my life for
ministry.
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2
Corinthians 1:2-4
"Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
[3] Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
[4] who comforts us in all our tribulation,
that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God." |
Monday
through Saturday we're a "blue jeans, work hard and get your
hands dirty" couple and we regularly hear from young folks,
"we can not imagine the two of you ever getting old."
My birth certificate tells the world that I was born in 1943 but that
can't possibly be true because my brain tells me that I'm only
18. My wife certainly can't be as old as her birth certificate
says she is because she's the same 20 year old I married over 40 years
ago 
We cannot stop getting old but we certainly do not have to grow old!!!
This
is our preferred,
Monday through Saturday,
dress.
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We believe: 1.
In the infallibility of the Word of God;
2. In the purity of
the Word of God;
3. In the truth of
"all of" the Word of God;
4. That salvation is by
a personal
commitment by faith in the risen
Lord Jesus
Christ;
5. In Believer's
baptism;
6. Salvation is free because Jesus Christ fully paid
for our salvation on the
cross. Just because our salvation is free,
please understand that there is no
such thing as
"easy believism," "painless repentance" or "low to
no
personal
investment" Spiritual Christian living. Though salvation
is free --
the Christian life is not.
We believe:
7. In the sanctity,
purity and permanence
of marriage,
8. In
the sanctity of
life and children.
9.
In the communion
of the Believers.
We
teach, preach and practice separation from worldliness and ecclesiastical
apostasy. It is a fact, though we live in the
world -- we
must
not become "like" the world.
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