David Hasker: A Symphony of Discipleship
Join us in this episode of Mission Control as we sit down with David Hasker, the Worship Pastor at First Baptist Melbourne, as he shares the beautiful melody of his life journey in ministry. From becoming the church pianist in third grade to leading worship at First Baptist Melbourne, David reflects on his roots, the role of family, and the joy of serving together. His stories and insights resonate with the heart of discipleship and the harmonious blend of faith and music.
Episode Highlights:
Early days as a church pianist at the age of eight
- Raising a musical family and serving together
- The significance of being on mission for the Kingdom
- Discipleship as a lifelong journey
- Reflections on the impact of mentors
- David’s excitement for the vision of Launch 10X at FBC Melbourne
Resources:
– “Is God Calling Me?” by Jeff Iorg- A recommended read on embracing God’s calling.
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Episode Transcript
Amanda Levy:
God has given all of us a mission to make disciples here and everywhere for the glory of God. We want our church to be a launchpad for sending people out on the mission God has for them.
Regardless of who you are, we all have a role to play. We are all involved in God’s story. We pray that the story shared through mission control. We’ll encourage you to see how God is calling you to be used by him. Hello, thanks for tuning into this episode of Mission Control. My name is Amanda Levy and I’m the communications director here at First Baptist Melbourne and the host of this podcast. Joining us today, we have David Hasker, who is the worship pastor here at First Baptist Melbourne. He’s been a big supporter of this podcast and pretty early on joked with me that he couldn’t wait to get behind the microphone. So I thought it was only fitting to give him a chance before the end of the year. I’ve had the absolute privilege to work with David and be under his leadership in the music ministry for the last eight years.
His strong leadership and talent for music is unquestionable, but his heart and care for those he serves has made a huge difference in my own life. If you haven’t ever had the opportunity to have a one-on-one conversation with David, you’re in for a treat with today’s episode. In our conversation today, we talk about how God began to use David as a leader in music ministry as early as the third grade, the value of family serving in the church together and the importance of investing in others for the kingdom’s sake. Before we get into it though, if this podcast has been impactful to you at all, why don’t you share it with a friend and if you haven’t already, be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss any future episodes. Okay, let’s meet up with David now. We’ve been starting with a fun space icebreaker.
David Hasker:
Love it.
Amanda Levy:
I have a choice for you though. Okay. Do you want to go deep with your icebreaker or do you want to go surface level fun? I have two options.
David Hasker:
I don’t to do ’em both.
Amanda Levy:
I mean, we can do them both, but you’d have to like,
David Hasker:
Okay. I don’t know. Fun, fun.
Amanda Levy:
Okay. If you could embark on a mission to any celestial body in our solar system, where would you go and why?
David Hasker:
Oh, that’s so easy. Jupiter. Why? I want to see what that big dot is.
Amanda Levy:
The big dot?
David Hasker:
Doesn’t it have the big black spot? The big C
Amanda Levy:
Does it? Yes. Wait, now I’m getting all off with my space. Saturn is the one with the rings. Saturn is, I don’t want to go to
David Hasker:
Saturn. Is the rings. Pluto has been demoted, but it’s still
Amanda Levy:
A celestial body
David Hasker:
It is. Oh, that’s true. It’s not a planet.
Amanda Levy:
It’s not a planet.
David Hasker:
That’s right. That’s right. No, I just want to go see that big black hole. That big black officially, it’s not a black hole, but it would be the big black dot on the scar on
Amanda Levy:
Jupiter. Oh yeah, I see it. I had to pull it up because my space knowledge is only so good right up there. That’s not a black hole. Is that the same spot?
David Hasker:
I don’t know.
Amanda Levy:
Oh, okay.
David Hasker:
I’m not, I don’t know. Maybe we should do deep. So you want
Amanda Levy:
To go specifically, specifically You want to go to that spot on Jupiter?
David Hasker:
Yes, yes, yes, yes. Because it’s so big
Amanda Levy:
Jupiter, you’ve
David Hasker:
Thought about this thing so much bigger than earth.
Amanda Levy:
How much bigger than Earth is it?
David Hasker:
I don’t know. I’m not a scientist like that, but I know it’s way bigger. You can probably
Amanda Levy:
Find it’s the fifth planet from the sun and the largest in the solar system.
David Hasker:
Yes, that’s what I’m talking about.
Amanda Levy:
It has a gas giant with a mass, more than two and a half times that of all other planets in the solar system
David Hasker:
Combined. Combined. I think the earth can fit in that hole.
Amanda Levy:
Wow. See, you didn’t even know this. Now I want to go to Jupiter. I want to go Jupiter and Mars, Saturn to see the rings. What does the rings look like from the planet?
David Hasker:
Right. It’s probably just like hazy clouds you can’t see through.
Amanda Levy:
Oh, that would be very anti-Climatic.
David Hasker:
It would be. I’ve seen Saturn through a telescope in cocoa Florida.
Amanda Levy:
Oh, is there a public telescope or was this too high connections? No,
David Hasker:
Was a telescope night. Everybody brought telescopes up to the little observatory thing they have up there and we looked and you could see ’em clear as
Amanda Levy:
Day. So do you own a telescope? Are you in the space?
David Hasker:
No, I have binoculars.
Amanda Levy:
That’s more than me. I have Google to watch birds. I have my phone where you can put it up in the sky and you can see what
David Hasker:
You’re looking at. Oh, I have that a night sky.
Amanda Levy:
Yeah. That’s
David Hasker:
Cool. Yes. That is so cool. Okay. Yeah.
Amanda Levy:
So David, what do you do here around First Baptist of Melbourne?
David Hasker:
Well, I don’t think anyone knows a astronomer, staff astronomer. No. I have had the joy of being the worship pastor at First Baptist Church of Melbourne, Florida for 20 years.
Amanda Levy:
20 years.
David Hasker:
Just had a big anniversary a couple months back in August, and yeah, 20 years of our life. Longest I’ve ever lived anywhere in my life.
Amanda Levy:
Wow. I just realized this is not 20 years, but this Melbourne and Palm Bay is the longest I’ve ever lived somewhere in my life too. No
David Hasker:
Way.
Amanda Levy:
I moved around a lot though.
David Hasker:
Sounds like it. Yeah, sounds like. Yes. So we came here and just planted our life and the years just go by so quick. They really do.
Amanda Levy:
How long had you been doing, were you always a worship pastor?
David Hasker:
Like always
Amanda Levy:
From graduating college, working professionally?
David Hasker:
So I started actually being the music director at a small Baptist church when I was 16. So I was in high school and I’d been the pianist at my church growing up since I was in third grade. But then when I was 16, I went to a little Baptist church. Neat story. Me and the interim pastor, they actually had an interim pastor at that point. Were the only everyone in the church was African American except the two of us.
Amanda Levy:
That is interesting. My
David Hasker:
First
Amanda Levy:
Church especially for that. Yeah, that’s interesting.
David Hasker:
And so it was wonderful and rich and they were so sweet. It was a little church. They probably had 80 people or
Amanda Levy:
So. So what was your connection to this church?
David Hasker:
They just needed somebody and
Amanda Levy:
You had the skills.
David Hasker:
They needed somebody. They were looking for somebody who could play and direct and through, I think through my piano teacher actually got a connection there, and it was about 15 minutes from my home. So went down there and until I graduated from high school that I went to my church, my family church in the morning and continued to play for their early service and then would run down here to this church and had a little choir of about 15 people, 14 to 15 people, and just a sweet little family of a church and was there for until I went to college.
Amanda Levy:
Wow. Yeah. So did you always, not always, but was there ever a point where you’re like, this is what I want to do, or did you just slip into it, just what you’d been doing since third grade in terms of music and music ministry?
David Hasker:
Yeah, I’ve been playing in church my whole life and since I was a kid, loved church music and my piano teacher, her husband was actually a pastor, and so I just kind of had just the church music connection and that’s how I used my gifts and that type thing. But it wasn’t until I was 14 that our church called their first full-time minister of Music, and his name was Bruce, and he lives in Ohio today still. And he came and he was just right out of college.
Amanda Levy:
So he was young,
David Hasker:
But he was married and had a kid, had three more kids while we were there while he was there, but he was married, had a little child, was 23, probably years old or so. And he came to our church. So here I was 14 and he’s 23, so he’s more like a big brother. I
Amanda Levy:
Mean, he’s not that much older
David Hasker:
Now, right. He’s not old. I am now looking. Right.
Amanda Levy:
I didn’t say he wasn’t old, I just said
David Hasker:
He’s older. So he came and he really, we hit it off and he took me under his wing. I think he saw a lot of himself. He played the piano beautifully, just stunningly and sang and led worship from the piano. And I had never seen that. And so he came and kind of took me under his arm and I think he saw a lot of himself as a kid in me. And there wasn’t that big age difference. He was more like a big brother to me. But it was the first time in my life that I had seen, you can actually do
Amanda Levy:
This, do this,
David Hasker:
And have a family and work at the church and lead this. Because before though, we weren’t a small church, we just had a series of volunteers or part-time. People, like one did the choir and one did the orchestra and they did collectively, they put it together, but they didn’t have the full-time kind of chief musician role. And until Bruce came, and then when he was there, that was the first time I really just saw the role built out for the first time. And then that summer, that my first summer with Bruce, I went to a youth camp with our denomination, which was not Baptist, by the way. Wow. That’s
Amanda Levy:
Another story. Dun.
David Hasker:
I know. Can you imagine? And went to Oswego, New York for a youth conference up there on,
Amanda Levy:
Did we establish where all this, where did you live at this time?
David Hasker:
Oh, I grew up in the Washington DC area.
Amanda Levy:
Oh, I don’t think I knew that.
David Hasker:
Yeah, this was in actually southern Maryland, right outside DC about 20 minutes from the White House. And so I was in Oswego, New York, and I’ll never forget the pastor was preaching, his name was Jim Custer, and I still remember his name. He was from Ohio. And at the end of the message, it was a message on really a call to service, call to ministry, kind of like that. And at the end he said, if you’re willing to give God the reins and say I’ll do whatever you want, Lord, I want you to come down here. And he said, that’s not saying, okay, I’ll go to China, but Lord, I hate rice. Don’t put conditions on it. We hear today, write the blank, check and sign it right and let God fill it in. Same type thing. And he said, if that’s you willing to do whatever God wants and just let him take control of that, I want you to come down.
And I went forward that night, and that was really kind of what I would call my call to ministry for the first time I’ve been grown up in church, had that, had these gifts as a kid, didn’t know what I was going to do with them, what does all this mean? And then had a model in a worship pastor and then had a minister give a challenge and say, what are you going to do with what you have? And so I think that was really drawing together all the chords that were kind of just loose in my life at that time and pulling them together to say, whatever God wants is fine. And then at that point, things just got clearer once I said, okay, Lord. And then the paths to worship and music ministry and all that just became clearer.
Amanda Levy:
So that was 14, then you became the music director at 16. Yeah. So what did you do? What was your next path out of high school for you?
David Hasker:
Right. So you have
Amanda Levy:
A few
David Hasker:
Degrees. Yeah. Went to college at Liberty University. I go flames and hey, they are undefeated. They don’t play any teams, but they are undefeated.
Amanda Levy:
That’s more than I can say for high
David Hasker:
School, isn’t it the truth? They’re nine and oh, way to go. And I mean, yeah, the team is so good. Auburn had to take our coach for them because Liberty’s, there you go.
Amanda Levy:
Yes. That’s
David Hasker:
Something. Exactly. So anyway, went there and I did a degree in church music there. And while I was there, I served a church, Randolph Memorial Baptist Church. And so literally since, this is a weird thing, Scott and I were talking about this, pastor Scott and I were talking about this a few months ago. Weird thing since I was 16 years old, I have never not been employed by a church.
Amanda Levy:
That is weird. Or as in That’s crazy.
David Hasker:
It is. And he said, you like when you were a college, you didn’t go to college, church. I said, I literally went to college and immediately was hired by a church to help and have
Amanda Levy:
Even as early as 16,
David Hasker:
It’s just I know God’s really been so faithful. And so the thought of trying to decide where I would go to church has been an experience that I have never had to endure ever. I went with my parents, then I went to my parents. That’s crazy. And I have always worked at a church ever since then. But yeah, served a couple of small churches in college. And then I went to seminary in Louisville, Kentucky and did church music training there and ministry training and served in a couple churches there during that time. One is a paid kind of an internship program as part of my studies, and then in another small Baptist church there, and then graduated and have served churches in North Carolina and Virginia prior to coming here 20 years ago. And so it’s been a little bit of a journey, but each church has its wonderful blessings and sweet people at each one.
Amanda Levy:
At one point did you do your doctorate and what is your doctorate in?
David Hasker:
So I did my doctorate in worship leadership from New Orleans Seminary, and I completed that in 2010. So that’s even been 13 years ago. But that was done here. I was going to say
Amanda Levy:
Somewhere
David Hasker:
Recently then is more recently. But that was done while I was here on staff and just kind of felt the Lord just calling me back to that and just kind of a retweaking of my skillset and calling and anyway, had a great time there and did that and did it actually on this church, first Baptist Melbourne, and did a project here with Pastor Larry, who was the pastor before Pastor Scott, although Pastor Scott was here during that time on our staff team, but not as the lead pastor and yeah.
Amanda Levy:
Cool.
David Hasker:
Yeah.
Amanda Levy:
So obviously you grew up going to church. Was your family supportive, I guess, of you doing music in church and that just being your life?
David Hasker:
Yeah. They were paying for all these piano lessons. I guess you might as well get something out. I might as well get something from it, so at least. But no, my parents were always very supportive. Of course, you go to church, you love to just like you see your kid in a Christmas program at school. They just got to see it every Sunday. And so they came and just started as the early service pianist. Nobody wants to do it that early, right? And so well, we’ll let the kid do it. So started it as that. And then, yeah,
Amanda Levy:
I’m still a little dumbfounded every time you tell this story that a third grader was the church pianist. I know. Can you imagine it now?
David Hasker:
They were so hard up. This is how hard. No, well, we had three services back then. We had a eight 30 and a 9 45 and an 11 o’clock service.
Amanda Levy:
We have three services now too.
David Hasker:
I know. I’m thinking for most of my life I’ve done three services.
Amanda Levy:
That’s
David Hasker:
Wild. It is. Yeah. So anyway, I played the first early service and then I was the Sunday night church pianist for all those years as well. And so when I think back, I think that is kind of my roots at heart. I’m kind of just a church pianist and then the Lord grew other gifts and leadership gifts and broadening of musical gifts out of that. But at my core, I’m just a church pianist.
Amanda Levy:
Gotcha. At what point did you work with orchestras before coming to First Artist Melbourne?
David Hasker:
So as a kid, our church had an orchestra and I was the orchestra pianist as well. So I played in church
Amanda Levy:
Orchestras. You played in an
David Hasker:
Orchestra context? Yes, played in church orchestra context and then in different settings. But I was never in a church that had a standing church orchestra, not anything at all with such a rich history like First Baptist Melbourne has, that was started by Dr. Greg Bruton, who was the worship pastor here many years ago, and then went to Southern Seminary as a professor. But he started, I think in the late eighties. He actually started the worship orchestra here. And it’s such a foundational bedrock of our worship experience and who we are and attracts such wonderful musicians and players here. And so it’s a joy to be able to stand in front of ’em every week and lead with them. Yeah,
Amanda Levy:
For sure. Tell us a little bit about your family. You had more kids here, you have some kids who now went to Liberty doing different things. How has it been raising and cultivating that?
David Hasker:
So actually none of our kids were born here.
Amanda Levy:
Oh, why did I
David Hasker:
Think? No, we brought all of our kids with us, but yeah, I
Amanda Levy:
Thought Emma was born here. No, she was not. So you had all three kids, then came to Melbourne.
David Hasker:
Yes, we brought them all in tow and yeah, crazy thing. Our oldest one started kindergarten the week we moved here, and he’s now out of college and he’s a violin teacher and a teacher in the public schools here in Brevard County. And then our middle one is a drummer, and he also went to Liberty, did a worship degree. And so he’s following a little bit more my footsteps, our older one followed a little bit more his mom’s footsteps into music education, and he serves at a church in Tennessee. And then our youngest, she’s graduating next month.
Amanda Levy:
Hey,
David Hasker:
Exciting. And so she’s the only one still at the house, and she is graduating with an elementary ed degree, so she’s going to be a teacher as well. Nice. And then my wife has been a music educator. We met at Liberty, we met at college that we didn’t date in college. That’s another whole story, but we got reunited and it feels so good.
Amanda Levy:
Wait, so you met in college, but you didn’t date in college?
David Hasker:
Met in college, we were inquiring. We actually got back together on a college choir reunion after college. Okay. Right.
Amanda Levy:
Were y’all both still living in the same place?
David Hasker:
No, we were in different states.
Amanda Levy:
So you went long distance
David Hasker:
LD when you actually had to pay for long distance phone calls.
Amanda Levy:
Wow. Exactly. How long was that? Long distance until,
David Hasker:
Well, let’s see, the reunion was I think in May or something. And then we got engaged in October and married the next June. So it all happened in less than a year, and nor did we even live in the same states.
Amanda Levy:
Wow. That’s crazy.
David Hasker:
It is. Yeah.
Amanda Levy:
That was fast. That’s a piece of your story. I didn’t know either. See, we’re all learning so many new things.
David Hasker:
I know it just keep asking questions.
Amanda Levy:
What excites you about what’s happening at First Baptist Melbourne and with launch 10 x and
David Hasker:
All the things? Sure. Well, it’s incredible just to be a part of a church with a vision like that. And there are a lot of great churches out there, but a lot of churches lack vision and just a plan for kingdom work and just living Sunday to Sunday and we’re doing things and they’re all for the glory of God, but having just bigger picture, that bigger God-sized thing that we can’t do on our own. And it’s great to be part of a team that catches that vision and pushes that vision on out through our church. And so these are exciting days here and looking forward to just leading. And we all come here on Sunday mornings and I get the privilege to lead the worship, and that’s kind of where we all charge the battery. And then that launch the planes launching off the battleship as we’ve used that analogy.
This is where we come to refuel. This is where we charge up. And our corporate worship service is the foundational rock upon which we make disciples here and everywhere for the glory of God gathered together in worship. United together under the teaching of our pastor with the word of God is literally the springboard for all of this. And I get the joy just to help be a part of that on Sunday mornings. Yeah, that’s awesome. So one of the great things about just having kids who are musicians, we’ve got a violinist and a pianist and a singer all with us and has been not only to be in ministry as their dad is the worship pastor and their mom leads the kids choirs, but to have them serve alongside us and our culture has in many ways just embraced having our kids taken care of away from us.
And I understand some of the reasons why and all that. And I think the church as a whole has somewhat embraced that as well too. And we come in the doors of many, many churches and the family splits up at the front door. It’s not multi-generational. And they all go different directions to different buildings, to different spaces, and they don’t see each other the entire time they’re at church and they come back together at the end. And so our church loves kids in worship. We still have all ministries for all of those kids. But the family dynamic here is to be in a service together and worship together. And I would push that even a step further really, of just the joy that it’s been, not only with my kids to see their dad mom serving, but to serve with us, right? And so our kids from the time that they could play well enough have been in the orchestra on the platform side by side and just the joy of serving together as a family.
I would just say if it’s not music for you, that’s fine, but whatever it is, maybe your door greeters, do it with your kids going on a mission trip. Take your kids with you, allowing your kids just to see you on mission. They begin to realize this is what our family values and this is just who our family is and what we do. And now, as I say, even we’re getting a little further removed from that as our kids are all adults now, but our older son, he still plays in our orchestra. Our other son is at a church on the music staff, our daughter, she still serves in the choir. And so we’re still now even with our adult kids able to serve together, even when they don’t have to go to church anymore, they still come and are still plugged in together. So find a place where you and your family can flesh out live on mission and serve together as a family.
Amanda Levy:
Yeah, I think it’s cool too because not only does it help connect the family and like you said, provides that value. There’s something disconnected about everyone going in their different direction. It’s not this community fellowship type thing. So I think it’s cool and music provides a really cool opportunity for that.
David Hasker:
Absolutely. It does. It does. But there’s lots of other things that we have at church too that families can do together if parents we’re always modeling, right? We’re always modeling. And so even as we’re modeling young adults and this is what our family does, and this is how we serve the Lord with our gifts,
Amanda Levy:
What excites you about the future of ministry?
David Hasker:
So I think I, the best days are ahead that we’re just on the precipice of seeing God just do incredible things. We see it every week anyway, but that we are going to be poised in a new way with just new resources and tools that we haven’t had at our disposal before. And so that really definitely excites me. And then I’ve been here 20 years, been in full-time ministry 30 years, been doing a little longer than that to get down to the 16-year-old. But nevertheless,
Amanda Levy:
We won’t date
David Hasker:
You. No, please. Yes. But I definitely see I’m getting into the season of life now to where seeing others thrive and others succeed as part of the ministry team is really so rewarding for me. And so I’ve been able to lead all the things and have the joy of that, but now equipping others to do it next to me and with me and alongside me and helping them is really such a joy. And you’ve heard that before. We always need to be training those who are going to come up and follow us and take our place. We never know what the Lord’s going to do and where he is going to move his resources around his kingdom as his will desires. And so always trying to find the people who can lead in your stead and that you’ve trained them up well.
Amanda Levy:
What advice would you have someone who feels a stirring in their life towards ministry and doesn’t know what to do with that
David Hasker:
One? I think be open. Don’t be closed off and put limitations on everything. God’s a big God, and he can do so much more than you can imagine him doing. And so in being open is one, listening. Listening not only to the spirit’s voice in your life, but listening to the voice of trusted believers. Much of our calling is done, of course, by the Holy Spirit in our lives, but it’s confirmed through the church, meaning the people of the church believers who say, Hey, I see this in you, or you’re so gifted at this, or God has anointed you in this way. And so God uses the church to speak truth into you if you’re listening for it. And you take that in and say, Lord, what are you doing? Are you calling me to something? And then so being open and then listening, listening to the Holy Spirit and listening to what the church around you is saying, what people are speaking into your life and then obey. And we can get stumped at any of these spots. We cannot be open, Lord, I’ll do this, but not here, not there, not now, not when, or we can not be listening to those around us and just be so arrow focused, I’m going to do this. I’m going to do that. I’m not listening to the voices. Or of course, getting stopped at just disobedience, just not willing to do it.
Amanda Levy:
And this feels like the same question, but it’s slightly not. What advice or encouragement would you have for someone who’s feeling the call to make disciples?
David Hasker:
So I think when we look at that, when making disciples is a bigger umbrella and that we’re called to do that. So if you’re called to ministry, yes, part of that is going to be discipling. Now discipling can be everything from a Bible study to literally teaching and training them to do what you do. That’s a form of discipling, right? Or it can be, I’ve got two guys right now that we’re literally in a text discipleship group, we’re reading the same book, we’re reading the same devotions, and we’re speaking into each other’s lives a couple times a week on text. Like, Hey, what did you get? I got this out of this. What did you get out of this? That’s great. Hey, did you read this book? And we’re just holding each other a little bit and walking just through the same journey and sharing with one another what God is saying to us in his word.
So it can be as simple as that, or as organized as a Bible study or as intentional as training up future leaders. And we all at different stages and different times have a responsibility to disciple at one of those tiers. And with the busyness of life, maybe your tier is not a deep tier right now. Maybe it’s just not a level you can go deep on. And yet at other moments in life when things are different, maybe God opens up or bring someone into your life that you have this window of opportunity to go really deep with them and pour into them for the kingdom’s sake. And they’ll never forget it. They’ll never forget it.
Amanda Levy:
I think it’s cool too. Sometimes I overcomplicate what I think discipleship will look like, and so you just automatically
David Hasker:
Assume that have a book in a 40 minute video. You have to have snacks and
Amanda Levy:
That, or you automatically assume that discipleship is in the deep tier, and you’re like, well, I’m not going to be ready for that. But then when God has been faithful to bring people your way, I’ve always been amazed like, oh no, actually I can help you with that because wow, what a thing. God actually prepared and equipped me for that. So I think sometimes we overcomplicate,
David Hasker:
Yeah, or we think that something we’re doing isn’t enough to be discipling. It’s got to be more than this, and it’s just taking part of your life and investing it in someone else’s life for the kingdom’s sake. That’s really all it is. And that can just happen on so many different levels and in so many different ways. I think the main thing is, the question that comes up is are you pouring in to anyone if the answer to that’s no. You’re probably not discipling in any way.
Amanda Levy:
Okay. So now here is your open forum, open mic. Is there anything else you would like to share with the mission control listeners?
David Hasker:
This is the wrap up.
Amanda Levy:
This is the wrap
David Hasker:
Up. Oh, this is not even, okay.
Amanda Levy:
You’re doing great, David.
David Hasker:
What is
Amanda Levy:
This? I don’t usually prompt it that way, but for you, I’m going to prompt it that way.
David Hasker:
Okay. That Jupiter is five times bigger than all the other planets
Amanda Levy:
Come combine. Jupiter is the biggest planet in the, I mean, that was something I’m walking away with today.
David Hasker:
Well, I would just say as we think about being on mission, is that one just, I’ve spent my whole life in service to the king and have not regretted a moment of it. And if he’s calling you to do anything and you will obey, you will never regret it. And the people who you touch will never regret it either. You may never hear it and it doesn’t matter. But one day the goal would certainly be to hear well done, good and faithful servant. There’d be myriads of people there that have said, you touched my life in a special way. And it’s all about people. It’s all about people and loving people. Well,
Amanda Levy:
Even just going back to, I forgot his name, the first music minister that came to your church? Bruce. Yeah, Bruce. I thought it was Bruce. Bruce, yeah. Do you still keep in touch with Bruce
David Hasker:
Every few years or whatever? We’ll touch base briefly, but he’s actually a pastor now. He’s a lead pastor in Ohio. Cool thing. His kids similarly grew up working and serving together with mom and dad in the ministry, and now they’re all in ministry too, working and serving a couple of ’em, even at his church. And so similar model there,
Amanda Levy:
Because without Bruce, and obviously God’s going to use whoever uses, but it just takes the faithfulness of pouring into the next generation down disciple.
David Hasker:
Absolutely. And we weren’t even that far apart in age, and this was his first job out of college, so what did he even, he’s trying to figure out even how to do this, but I didn’t know that. I thought he was awesome, and he’s trying to figure out how to do this, but yet, even as a 23-year-old, right out of college, coming to his first job, the first thing he did was take a 14-year-old kid and say, God’s going to do something with you. I can see it already, and I want to be part of
Amanda Levy:
It. Yeah, that’s
David Hasker:
Awesome. Thankful for Bruce.
Amanda Levy:
Thankful for Bruce too. Well, and I’m thankful for you. Thanks for coming and joining us on Mission Control.
David Hasker:
Absolutely. This was fun. I’m
Amanda Levy:
Good. I’m glad.
David Hasker:
I think these things are awesome. Oh, good. By the way, just give you a little
Amanda Levy:
Plug. Oh, personal
David Hasker:
Endorsement. A little personal plug. Always appreciate them. Sometimes I pop you a text. These have been so great. I love ’em. I’ve listened to, I think almost every one of them.
Amanda Levy:
Oh, nice. They’ve been a highlight of my year as well. Thanks for listening to this episode of Mission Control. If you’re interested in learning more about Launch 10 x and the different ways to get involved in what God is doing here at First Baptist Melbourne, a great place to start would be visiting our website, launch Me Church Next Time in Mission Control. We have Mike Griffin joining us. Mike is the newest member to the ministerial team here at First Baptist Melbourne, and I’m thrilled that we are able to give him a chance to come onto this podcast. He has an incredible story to share of how God has used him in the Middle East, and I can’t wait for you to have the opportunity to hear about His heart for the nations. Until then, I hope you have a great week on Mission with King Jesus.