It was over 50 years ago in June 1974 when my wife Gretchen and I moved to Cambridge to continue my career in family medicine. Friends invited us to First Baptist Church; we came, we joined, and we never looked back! It was a great place to raise our three children who now have families of their own giving us seven wonderful grandchildren.

     In my later years of practice, I focused on senior patients which set the stage for me to one year ago accept the position of Volunteer Pastor of Senior Care Ministry which has enabled me to realize even more the great resource we have in our senior congregation.

     I am the third oldest of nine children born to Rev. Harold Sr. and Hazel Sanders. Dad's ministry took us throughout the midwest. If you ask where we grew up you would get many different answers - from me it would be Chicago, Illinois from where God miraculously led me to DePauw University in Indiana and then to the University of Minnesota Medical School.

     I have a persistent love for teaching, and I am fortunate to lead the Better Together Community Group.

     When I was 11 years old, a traveling evangelist came to our church in Rowan, Iowa and I responded to his invitation to accept Jesus as my Savior, and I was subsequently baptized.

     In medical school I met this cute little nursing student, we got engaged and Gretchen and I were married in 1969. She has proven to be a great partner in medicine, in ministry and in life. God's words are true - "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11