CLIFF HARDIN

SENIOR ADULT & CARE PASTOR

CHARDIN@BROADMOOR.ORG

Cliff Hardin was raised in Leakesville, Mississippi and graduated from Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi with a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Christian Studies and a minor in Psychology.  Cliff completed one unit of Clinical Pastoral Education at Mississippi Baptist Health Systems followed by four units of Clinical Pastoral Education at the Sonny Montgomery VA Hospital which included experience at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and The State Hospital at Whitfield.  He has also earned a master of Divinity with an emphasis in Psychology and Counseling at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.    

He currently serves as a staff counselor at Broadmoor Baptist Church.  There he performs marital, family, and individual therapy encompassing many issues including depression, anxiety, self esteem and relational issues and provides spiritual counsel.  He also serves as the Triage Counselor.  Cliff serves as Staff Chaplain at Mississippi Baptist Health Systems where he provides spiritual counsel and crisis intervention to staff and patients.  He is also an adjunct professor for the Clinical Pastoral Education program at Mississippi Baptist Health Systems.    

Before coming to Broadmoor, Cliff served at Parkview Baptist Church in Metairie, Louisiana as the Senior Adult Minister where he supplied counseling to homebound and nursing home members as well as individual and marital therapy including depression and conflict resolution.  He also served as Pastoral Care Pastor at First Baptist Church of Jackson, Mississippi, where he provided pastoral counsel, visited hospitals and nursing homes, and performed weddings and funerals.    

Cliff enjoys woodworking, hunting, fishing, and traveling with his wife.  He is married to Diana Thornton of Brandon, Mississippi. Cliff and Diana have a little girl named Alex.

BOBBY BRAGG

EDUCATION AND MATURE ADULT PASTOR

BBRAGG@BROADMOOR.ORG

At the age of 8 years old, I accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior and Lord at First Baptist Church in Houston, Mississippi. I was sitting in a Tuesday afternoon mission class where the teacher was telling the class about missionaries who were traveling across the oceans to share Christ with people of different countries. At that same moment God touched my heart and revealed He wanted to be my Savior and Lord also. As an 8 year old, I accepted Christ's grace in a very simple but profound way. I immediately went home and told my dad and mom. who were extremely excited. Shortly after my new faith in Christ, we moved to Memphis, Tennessee. We became members of a church with active children and student ministries. It was in this church my faith in Christ grew and I developed as a Christian. On a special student retreat discussing career choices, I felt a special call from God to do something special with my life. I was preparing to go to medical school to be a pediatrician when God redirected my life to Christian education. I moved from a career of temporary healing of the body to eternal healing of the soul, a change that is filled with exciting experiences. After 32 years as a minister and 45 years as a Christian, it still amazes me when I see a person come to know Christ as their Savior and Lord. The change that happens in the person's life is a miracle that only God can create. Each day as a Christian is unique because you never know when God is going to use you to share the gospel and you get to see someone come to faith in Christ. That is true joy, sharing with others what God has and is doing in your life.

TOMMY JARRETT

CARE AND MISSIONS PASTOR

TJARRETT@BROADMOOR.ORG

I grew up in the Mississippi Delta with wonderful Christian parents guiding me through my formative years. Church involvement was not an option for me. From birth I was immersed into the community of faith. However, my concept of faith and God had nothing to do with a personal relationship with the creator of the universe. I thought if I was "pretty" good and did enough religious things, everything would be ok with me and God. Yet, even with that philosophy of life, deep within me I always knew there had to be more to faith than what I had experienced.

My genuine experience with Christ in a saving way came between my sophomore and junior year in college. Things were going great for me personally. My life was really opposite from the down and out person in great trouble needing a savior. During the summer of 1970, a friend invited me to a home bible study. It was there that I was asked a penetrating question that ultimately changed the direction of my life. I was asked, "Are you a Christian?" I was initially angered by such an inquiry. "Sure I am a Christian. I go to church (I really didn't go much) and I've been baptized (even though I didn't know what I was doing at the time)."

That night when I went home from the home bible study, the question "Are you a Christian" penetrated my thinking and my emotions. I knew that my response was inadequate. For several weeks I had been surrounded for the first time by persons my age that had a joy that I didn't have. They talked about Jesus and what He was personally doing in their lives. I had never experienced God in that way. That night for the first time I asked Christ to forgive me of sins, enter my life, and make me what He created me to be.

God answered that prayer and made me his child. For the next couple of years, things radically changed for me. Rather than follow a dream of going to law school, God called me into vocational ministry. At Mississippi State I met the love of my life and while a second year student at Southwestern Seminary, Sandra and I were married. God has given us together many unique ways to minister, three wonderful children, and the knowledge that His purpose for us continues to be adventurous and significant. We are genuinely grateful to God for allowing us the privilege of serving Him at Broadmoor.

JOHN PULLEY

SENIOR ADULT AND CARE PASTOR

JPULLEY@BROADMOOR.ORG

Growing up in Henderson, North Carolina in a Christian home. Mama would read Bible stories to me and my brother at bedtime and she was our Sunday School Teacher, too. I accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior at Bible School when I was 9 years old at Union Chapel Methodist Church.

As a young Christian it was a growing process. In my teenage years I became more involved in church as a student leader in Sunday M.Y.F. and on Youth Sunday each year. It was in those teenage years when I began to struggle with His calling to full-time Christian service. After graduation from high school, however, I chose electrical engineering and moved to Chicago, IL. (Not a smart choice. Returned to Henderson before the first semester was complete.) I was homesick for my high school sweetheart. In between semesters I thought I would accept a job until second semester began. However, the job became a vocation – I entered the management-training program. One year later I married my high school sweetheart, Carolyn Clayton. In April, 1961, we moved our membership from Union Chapel Methodist Church to First Baptist Church, Charlottesville, VA where we entered believer’s baptismal waters together. I was ordained a deacon in Augusta, GA 1969. God allowed me to be successful in the secular world for 35 years.

God didn’t forget us. He led us to Broadmoor Baptist Church in August, 1974 where He used me in lay leadership roles such as Sunday School Teacher, Deacon, Sunday school Director, and Chairman of Deacons. The call was still there. I tried to answer the call with part time service. In the summer of 1991 we were transferred to Charlotte, NC. Before leaving, I was asked by Dr. Jim Futral and Dr. Steve Stone to consider a church staff vacancy and I said no, again.

We moved our membership to First Baptist Charlotte, NC. This time I could not say no. After an eleven month struggle I said yes to His call. In September of 1992, I surrendered to full time ministry at First Baptist Church, Charlotte, NC.

In March, 1993, I became the Senior Adult and Pastoral Care Minister at Broadmoor Baptist Church. Having been a manager, district and regional manager for 35 years, I now felt the joy of being in the center of His will for my life.