Revitalization Church Goals Pastor's Report 2025
- Daniel Pelichowski
- Dec 31, 2025
- 14 min read
First Baptist Church of Gallatin (Presented 01-4-26)
Pastor’s Report (Ministry Year End Report 2025):
#1 The Word was Preached:
2 Timothy 4:1-2 I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
· Sunday Morning Worship Service:
o 1 Timothy: “Healthy Church” - Finished the Healthy Church series in 1st Timothy with 11 final sermons in 2025 after the series was on hold for over a year. Sermons ranging from topics on widows, elder qualifications and various topics, work and calling, and how we should relate to money.
o Gospel Newness - a three-part series about how the gospel makes us new in a variety of ways (New Life, New People, New Unity)!
o John’s Three Letters - A series sequel in the Johannine epistles revisiting 1st John which we had gone though in 2020 with 4 summary sermons on the tests of 1st John, then moving on to explore new areas in 2nd John and 3rd John on the topics of warning about schismatics in the church, divisive people, and church bullies.
o Religious Hard Hearts - Multiple sermons coming to a full circle close stemmed and starting from challenging truths that started with Matthew 23 in the past, moving on to 1 Corinthians 11 and “Redeeming Contentious Communion,” and then a sermon on Genesis 50 titled; “God turned it for good” about Joseph’s suffering and God’s providence through it all. But then this year we brought this providential series to a close with a follow up sermon closing out Matthew 23’s Woes to Religious Hard Hearts after exploring of similar themes in 3rd John in dealing with church bullies.
o Matthew 19-28 “Kingdom Sacrifice” - We had put this series on pause to finish up 1st Timothy, but then after we finished the Healthy Church series, we picked back up at the end of Matthew 23 (see above) and really dove into the Mount Olivet Discourse in Matthew 24-25 with 7 sermons on Jesus’ end times sermon dealing with the prediction of the destruction of the temple and also instruction about the end of the world!
o “The Wonder of Jesus” – A VBS sermon on the person and work of Jesus to match the theme of our full week of teaching at FBC Gallatin.
o A Very Merry Christological Christmas – A 4-part Christmas series exploring the deep things of Christology seeing: Part 1 – The Pre-Existent Son, Part 2 – The Mind-Blowing Incarnation, Part 3 – God the Son Incarnate, Part 4 – Truly God and Truly Man.
o Individual Sermons - Multiple one-off single sermons were preached from different passages by various preachers on Sunday morning (Pastor Wood, Our DOM Keith Corrick, Kyle Taft, & Pastor Daniel). Sermon texts ranged from an Easter sermon Plagiarizing Peter on Easter, Blessing to Praising from Psalm 67, Teach them Diligently Deuteronomy 6, Trust God Over Chariots Isaiah 31, The Better Priest in Hebrews 7, Lead Your House in Joshua 24, Unwanted Redemption in Exodus 6, The Justification Gift in Romans 5, Itching Ears from 2 Timothy 4, Atonement from Hebrews 10, Your Kingdom Come from Matthew 6, Mission Drift from Luke 4, Eschatology from Daniel 7 & 9, and Disobedient Obedience in Acts 4.
· Sunday Evening Sermons (& the congregation responded in prayer):
o In 2025, various shorter devotions were given during our evening prayers service by pastor Daniel.
o Devotions double clicking on the morning sermons ranging from topics of elder plurality, the end times, Gospel transformation, Christology.
· Members Meetings:
o New Schedule Update: 5 total meetings with most meetings in the morning after church, and due to the fact that both the Church Covenant (5 sermons) and Church Doctrine (19 sermons) series’ have both been completed in prior years, we no longer have the teaching time during our members meetings due to most of them being after morning service where preaching has already occurred instead of the monthly Sunday night meetings we used to have.
#2 People were Discipled:
Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
· Co-ed Intentional Discipleship Table Talks: Two additional co-ed table talks semesters (Spring & Fall 2025), a total of 13 new 2-hour meetings on the topics of Church Revitalization in the Spring and the J-Curve in the Fall on union with Christ and identifying with Jesus through suffering and trials. We also dealt with marriage conflict and communication advice, idolatry, separation, divorce, and remarriage topics and even completed our entire way through the rest of R.C. Sproul’s book “Everyone’s a Theologian” finishing with Ecclesiology in the Spring and Eschatology in the Fall to complete all 60 Systematic Theology talks over the last 5 years! Well over 26 hours of discipleship ministry in 2025 table talks.
· Women’s Ministry Bible Study through the book of Habakkuk!
· Sunday School Bible Studies: 2 adult co-ed classes (taught by Jeremy Ripple, & Stan Ray, 2 children’s classes (taught by Whitney and Stacy joined together to teach the Kingdom Kids Sunday Morning class going through the Biggest Picture Storybook Bible curriculum, and the other younger class taught by Mandie Ripple), and one youth class (taught by Wood Marshall) with great teaching, discussion, prayer and fellowship in all of them!
· Children’s Camp: Wonderful Word centered memorization and bonding fun for counselors and students for multiple days and nights to God’s glory! Brandie, Jason, and Stacy were the leaders this year!
· Vacation Bible School theme on the Wonder Junction walking through the walking through the person and work of Jesus in a western theme…
· Some church members attended and many were invited to the Reclaiming Glory church revitalization conference in St Joe in the spring of 2025 on the topic of church revitalization followed by some good food and fellowship…
· Deacons Meeting – Rick taught and led edifying monthly devotions at the start of our meetings.
· Keenagers – Monthly edifying teaching and discussion led by Doug & Shirley Laney on a variety of very encouraging and helpful biblical topics…
· Pastor Daniel & Wood continued to have a weekly pastor’s meeting for service review, service planning, pastoral leadership discussion, and prayer for our church even after Wood ended his vocational pastoral responsibilities at FBC Gallatin...
· Baptismal/member candidates were taken through the membership process to encourage them in the beginning of their Christian life!
· Weekly staff devotions: with (Daniel, Bobbi & Ashley to start the year & Daniel, Ashley & Chris the second half of the year).
· Pastor Daniel continued regular life and ministry conversations of encouragement and sharpening with pastor friends.
· Pastor Daniel - Practical Shepherding Bi-Monthly Level-2 Cohort Meeting with other pastors and a pastor mentor led by Brian Croft in 2025 (about 10 online zoom-call meetings or personal mentoring calls for support and encouragement).
· Daniel completed an 8-week cohort with Colin Millar going through the J-Curve materials written by Paul Miller from the SeeJesus ministry.
· Daniel completed a monthly 10 meeting Simeon Trust online preaching cohort with a small group of pastors working to improve our preaching and give sermon feedback and discuss important preaching resources.
· Daniel attended the TGC and 4theChurch pastor’s conferences.
· Daniel – Completed the required CEU (Continued Education Units) required by ACBC (Association of Certified Biblical Counselors) to maintain ACBC certification and continue to develop in personal discipleship and counseling ministry and care…
#3 People were Counseled:
Acts 20:20 how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house,
· Pastors are not only called to the public ministry of the Word, but also the personal ministry of the Word to particular issues and problems of people’s lives…
· In 2020 (for reference), Pastor Daniel counseled 7 different individual or family units (either individual, married couple, or married couple with children), 10 people, 48 formal counseling meetings (ranging anywhere from 1 to 2 hours… Well over 60 hours of biblical counseling ministry…
· In 2021 (for reference), Pastor Daniel counseled 14 different individual or family units (either individual, married couple, or married couple with children), 25 people, 75 formal counseling meetings (ranging from 1 - 2 hours… Well over 90 hours of biblical counseling ministry… 40 of these counseling meetings were supervised by a more seasoned mentor pastor…
· In 2022 (for reference), Pastor Daniel Counseled 31 different individual or family units (either individual, married, couple, or married couple with children), 43 people, ~110 formal counseling meetings (ranging from 1 - 2 hours… Well over 150 hours of biblical counseling ministry…10 of these counseling meetings were supervised by a more seasoned mentor pastor in completion of ACBC certification…
· In 2023 (for reference), Pastor Daniel Counseled 26 different individual or family units (either individual, married, couple, or married couple with children for at least one but usually multiple meetings), 35 people, ~ 101 counseling meetings (ranging from 1 – 2+ hours… Well over 150 hours of biblical counseling ministry…
· In 2024 (for reference), Pastor Daniel provided counsel and crisis care throughout the year in various settings and for different reasons. Less formal counseling in 2024, but a variety of personal ministry care and counseling ministry nonetheless. 28 either individual or family units (either individual counsel, or married couple, or family etc), 37 people, approximately 106 meetings of various kinds, approximately over 250 plus hours of overall counseling and discipleship and crisis care of various kinds…
· In 2025, Pastor Daniel Counseled 24 different individual or family units (either individual, married, couple, or married couple with children for at least one but usually multiple meetings), 28 people, ~ approximately 81 meetings, approximately 121 plus hours of counseling care…
· In 2020-2021 (for reference), Pastor Wood counseled 2 different couples for premarital counseling, total of 4 people, 15 formal counseling meetings for about 20 hours of counseling care.
· In 2022 (for reference), Pastor Wood counseled 6 different individual or family units, and then several youth informal counseling conversations topics from school pressures, family dynamics and conflict, aftermath and prevention of suicide, handling bullies, peer pressure, crisis situations and more for countless hours of counsel and care.
· In 2023, Pastor Wood counseled 9 different individual or family units, and then several youth informal counseling conversations topics from school pressures, family dynamics and conflict, aftermath and prevention of suicide, handling bullies, peer pressure, crisis situations, other religions/cults and more for countless hours of counsel and care. In addition to those, he also held 5 formal counseling meetings for 2 family units. In the year he also mentored/discipled 2 younger men. One seeking wisdom in a current ministry context and another pursuing ministry. Each one met or called weekly for 1-3 hours.
· In 2024 (for reference), Pastor Wood finished off his vocational ministry at FBC with personal counseling and discipleship care focus with various contacts and care throughout the year…
· In 2025, Pastor Wood moved into another vocational job but continued to be a faithful member at our church!
#4 Music Ministry Led Us in Worship Through Song:
Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
· Led us in weekly God glorifying music!
· Celebration choir potlucks and training.
· Many God glorifying rehearsals!
· 2 Cantatas (Easter & Christmas Evening Concert).
· Good Friday & Thanksgiving Community Choir Services.
#5 Pastors Led:
Acts 20:28 “Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.”
· The pastors prepared and led preaching/teaching, discipleship, and counseling care ministry.
· Weekly pastors’ meetings to pray for the congregation, encourage one another, discuss discipleship ministry in the church, review the previous service & sermons, and plan new future services and ministry, and pray for our church.
· The pastors planned and led the worship services as God has called them to do.
· The pastors led the monthly prayer service.
· Pastors led our members meetings.
· In 2025, Daniel provided materials for our fifth annual childcare workers children's safety training and awareness packet.
· The pastors led us in our church mission and centered commitments (Expository Preaching, Intentional Discipleship, & the Great Commission)…
· Pastors led us to continue to support and consider Great Commission Gospel Motivated partnerships, missionary opportunities, and partnerships (IMB, NAMB, MBC)…
· Pastors led administratively with website content, YouTube sermon channel, podcast, audio sermon website, social media, church sign, monthly newsletter, various meetings, church activities, and other initiatives scheduled, planned, and oversaw them with the help of many others also being involved like our church secretary, committee members, and overall church membership involvement.
· Pastors also led in SBC association involvement attending and being involved in our NGRBA annual meeting (Daniel served as the Moderator and led that meeting this year for the second year in a row and also led several E-board meetings for our association throughout the year), watching the National Convention annual meeting online to take notes and be aware of action items relating to our church, resources, and initiatives in our denomination… And Wood and Daniel attended the MBC in Branson for our state convention in October…
· Pastors continued to lead our renewed way forward through multiple meetings and planning and praying, sermons, and members meetings. Pastor Daniel continued to teach and lead the congregation towards meaningful membership and to see the biblical priority of plural pastor/elder leadership through his 1st Timothy “Healthy Church” series.
#6 Deacons Served:
1 Timothy 3:13 For those who serve well as deacons gain a good standing for themselves and also great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.
· Deacons served as they became aware of needs through the contact and care lists.
· Intercessory Prayer & Gospel Motivated Giving weekly prayers.
· Monthly Deacons Meetings to care for practical service needs in the church.
· Served by greeting, ushering, and passing along and responding to prayer needs as they were made aware.
· Deacons helped coordinate with other faithful members a benevolence opportunity to generously provide a recliner!
· Participated and served during the annual Christmas Eve candlelight service.
· Deacons met needs to free up the elder/pastors for prayer and the ministry of the Word.
· Deacons praying and leading towards unity.
#7 The Congregation Made Decisions Together (Keys of the Kingdom-Matt 16;18):
Matthew 18:18-20 Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”
· The congregation met for regular and specially called members meetings to address key areas of church life together to participate in the life and ministry of our church!
· The congregation gathered weekly to hear the Word and also applied it and shared it with others in our church and community to the glory of God! Being built up in the Word to then reach out as our church mission statement puts it!
· The congregation responded to God’s Word with biblical actions and accountability.
· The congregation deliberated along with finance committee support wise financial cut-backs to wisely navigate changing times…
· The congregation made key decisions together such as discussing and voting to affirm significant bylaw changes that moved us in the direction of meaningful church membership (Pastor/elder led protected, deacon served and supported, congregationalism where the whole church uses their gifts to make key decisions together). We also voted to move forward with recognizing a plurality of elder/pastors to serve alongside the senior pastor including lay/non-vocational elder/pastors going forward. The church voted to have the pastor and deacons work on bylaw updates regarding lay/non-vocational elders and also to begin the process of nominating and considering decisions on future elders!
#8 The Congregation Supported in Gospel Motivated Giving & Practical Service:
2 Corinthians 9:7 Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
· Our members generously gave to provide for the salaries of church staff employees.
· Our members have continued to regularly, generously, and sacrificially give to maintain and grow ministry at FBC motivated by the Gospel!!!
· Special missions’ offerings MMO, Annie Armstrong, Lottie Moon, a certain percentage of our monthly giving went to the state and national Cooperative Program giving of the SBC, another percentage given to the NGRBA local association, some members continued to give directly to the Parkison Family in Abu Dhabi.
· Members participated in our bi-annual Ministerial Alliance services giving for local benevolence care in our community.
· Our decorating committee did an excellent job providing various decorations throughout the year culminating in the wonderful Christmas Decorations in December!
· Trustees regularly fixed and maintained our church building and parsonage. They have decided to take on additional care of our trash to save money on our budget, and also take on the lawn care for the church and parsonage as well to help our budget and have done such a wonderful job with all that extra work!
#9 The Congregation Cultivated Fellowship:
1 John1:3 that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.
• Potluck meals (Easter Breakfast, Church Picnic, Year End Harvest carry in meal, End of Year December Pizza meal coinciding with our annual budget meeting vote). Shout out to the social committee!!!
· Members hosted a Superbowl fellowship gathering and devotion at halftime.
· Social committee provided cookies and drinks for our ministerial Alliance Thanksgiving service & Christmas concert!
• Lake Viking annual church picnic Potluck Cookout fellowship & pool and beach fun overlooking the lake with a Taco Bar for the meal.
• Keenagers monthly meal and fellowship and teaching led by the Laney’s!
• Women’s ministry fourth annual Christmas gathering event!
• Brotherhood ministry had a breakfast at Corner Café, Chili Cookoff, and hosted the family New Years Eve games party!!!
· Children’s Camp Movie Night watching the Jesus Revolution movie and raising funds for camp!
· Church fantasy football league fellowship and fun all season…
• VBS provided 5 nights of fellowship amongst students and leaders, end of summer family night, and fellowship and fun at the pool party at the Gallatin pool.
· Kingdom Kids family Christmas party with a devotion, fun crafts/activities, music, and hot cocoa!
· The Dennis’ Planned and Led our first Community Christmas Meal! Where we hosted anyone in the community who wanted to attend a meal the Saturday before Christmas. Many members participated and attended this wonderful event together and connected together and also connected with our community!
#10 The Congregation Cared for One Another & Served Together!
Philippians2:3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
· Monthly Congregational Prayer Services...
· Prayer chain email and text updates for congregational prayer and care.
· Meals provided during Kingdom Kids annual Christmas party, potlucks, and all week during VBS!
· Members cared for hurting fellow church members in various ways to God’s glory!
· Members participated in meals on wheels to provide meals to many in our community throughout the year!
· Our Keenagers Ministry helped pack boxes and provide gifts for operation Christmas Child…
· Members provided generously for benevolence needs as they saw the need to God’s glory!
· Member served monthly at our 2nd Harvest mobile food pantry.
· Hospital visitations, home fellowship, & hospitality amongst church members all year!
· The congregation served two families in need at the end of the year with Christmas and other practical needs.
· The Dennis’ planned and led our first Community Christmas event that provided a hot meal of ham and turkey and all the fixings to anyone in our community the Saturday before Christmas!
· Benevolence help distributed through FBC Gallatin. And also, through our Ministerial Alliance cooperation.
· 2nd Harvest Mobile Food Pantry – New this year starting in April of 2025 after prayer for opportunities to serve our community, our church has volunteered to serve food to an average of 150 households monthly out of our church parking lot with many members serving every month to get food into needy homes in our community! We served food 9 times in 2025 to approximately 1350 total household provisions throughout the year!
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