Who I Am
My name is Nokomis Gregory and I am from Winston-Salem, NC. I graduated from Piedmont International University with a B.A. in Bible. My plan is to move to Calgary, AB, CA to join Hope Church as a Church Planting Team Member, and student at the Canadian Southern Baptist Seminary. My goal is to share the Gospel with everyone I can in Calgary through word and deed, and to launch a church plant as a lead planter.
The Lord saved me when I was 20, through one of my best friends sharing the Gospel with me for about a year and a half. When Christ came into my life, everything about me changed. All I wanted was to know Christ and teach Him to others and give the same hope that had been given to me. This brought me to two specific places that set me on the trajectory that I'm on now. Edgewood Baptist Church (my home/sending church) and Piedmont International University (now known as Carolina University).
At Edgewood, my pastor (Kent Hogan) taught me how to read and love God's word. How to teach it, to others and how to apply it to my life. He built me up to be a better man, and student of not only God's word, but of academia. Through my darkest moments, I'd been shown God's grace and forgiveness through the ministry at Edgewood, and loved with a great love that can only be through Jesus. The local body has encouraged and loved me since I was a 16 year old young man from the high school down the street from the church building.
At Piedmont, I learned formally how to read God's word with the intention of teaching it and overall, serve in a local church in many different capacities. In 2013, at Piedmont I met my professor, mentor, and friend Dustin Conner gave a chapel presentation on church planting, and the opening up of a new minor in the school called "North American Church Planting". I immediately enrolled in the minor. In those classes, I learned what it meant to plant a church specifically in a North American context, and in cities where the is little to no Gospel presence.
In 2016, I served on a missions team in Calgary for a week running a tee ball camp for a church plant that had been going on for about two years. That missions trip opened my eyes to ministry in a completely different context than what I grew up in. I went back up in 2017 through the North American Mission Board (NAMB) program called "GenSend" where college students have the opportunity to spend a summer in a "Send City" (this is a city that NAMB aims to send missionaries to plant churches and spread the Gospel) and immerse themselves in another corner of this continent and see what God is doing in the world. There I worked with Dustin and saw what God started in Calgary in Northwest quadrant called, "Symons Valley."
This brings me to today, I will be move to Calgary January 2021 as a student in Seminary and serve as a Church planting resident with Hope Church. Thank you for taking the time to read this, I hope that here you've discovered a bit more of who I am. If you are interested in partnering with me in sharing the Gospel in Calgary, AB, CA there are three ways: Pray, Come, Give. You can find out more about these options in the "Get in Touch Page" Thank you for your time!
The Lord saved me when I was 20, through one of my best friends sharing the Gospel with me for about a year and a half. When Christ came into my life, everything about me changed. All I wanted was to know Christ and teach Him to others and give the same hope that had been given to me. This brought me to two specific places that set me on the trajectory that I'm on now. Edgewood Baptist Church (my home/sending church) and Piedmont International University (now known as Carolina University).
At Edgewood, my pastor (Kent Hogan) taught me how to read and love God's word. How to teach it, to others and how to apply it to my life. He built me up to be a better man, and student of not only God's word, but of academia. Through my darkest moments, I'd been shown God's grace and forgiveness through the ministry at Edgewood, and loved with a great love that can only be through Jesus. The local body has encouraged and loved me since I was a 16 year old young man from the high school down the street from the church building.
At Piedmont, I learned formally how to read God's word with the intention of teaching it and overall, serve in a local church in many different capacities. In 2013, at Piedmont I met my professor, mentor, and friend Dustin Conner gave a chapel presentation on church planting, and the opening up of a new minor in the school called "North American Church Planting". I immediately enrolled in the minor. In those classes, I learned what it meant to plant a church specifically in a North American context, and in cities where the is little to no Gospel presence.
In 2016, I served on a missions team in Calgary for a week running a tee ball camp for a church plant that had been going on for about two years. That missions trip opened my eyes to ministry in a completely different context than what I grew up in. I went back up in 2017 through the North American Mission Board (NAMB) program called "GenSend" where college students have the opportunity to spend a summer in a "Send City" (this is a city that NAMB aims to send missionaries to plant churches and spread the Gospel) and immerse themselves in another corner of this continent and see what God is doing in the world. There I worked with Dustin and saw what God started in Calgary in Northwest quadrant called, "Symons Valley."
This brings me to today, I will be move to Calgary January 2021 as a student in Seminary and serve as a Church planting resident with Hope Church. Thank you for taking the time to read this, I hope that here you've discovered a bit more of who I am. If you are interested in partnering with me in sharing the Gospel in Calgary, AB, CA there are three ways: Pray, Come, Give. You can find out more about these options in the "Get in Touch Page" Thank you for your time!