Pastor Stan Whitney
Pastor of Serving Ministries

Spouse Name:
Joyce Elaine
 
Married since:
1968
 
Children Names:
Heather, Kim, Jay
 
Where were you born:
Boston, Mass.
 
Saved Since:
March 1970
 
On Staff Since:
Jan. 2000
 
Hobbies:
Guns, Photography, reading, more guns
 
Favorite sport:
Cycling
 
Favorite sports personality:
Lance Armstrong
 
Favorite Food:
Anything that doesn’t eat me first
 
Favorite artist(s) or musician(s):
Charles Russell, Michelangelo, Harry James
 
Favorite Movie(s):
Dances with Wolves, True Grit, Seabiscuit, Mogambo
 
Favorite Actor/Actress of all time:
Jimmy Stewart/Ingrid Bergman
 
Favorite Book:
A Tale of Two Cities
 
Favorite Author:
Charles Dickens
 
Favorite Restaurant:
Pappadeaux
 
Favorite Flavor of Ice Cream:
Pistachio
 
Favorite Animal:
Labrador Retriever
 
Favorite Hymn or Praise Song:
Amazing Grace
 
Funniest and/or fondest childhood memory:
Herding cattle during fall roundups in Colo.
 
Funniest and/or fondest adult memory:
Going anywhere with my wife
 
If you were mayor and could change one thing about Phoenix…
I would make it illegal to work on beautiful, cool days
 
Favorite scripture verse, passage, or book of the Bible:
Heb. 4:14-16
 
Main Ministries:
Serving people through counseling, visitation [home/hospital], SHAPE discovery, prayer, support groups
 
Testimony:
I was a “rough around the edges” slaughterhouse worker, working to put myself through college and my wife through nursing school. A number of Baptist pastors worked at the same place and had witnessed to me about salvation in Jesus Christ. After much resistance, I gave my life to Christ one Saturday afternoon. In His infinite kindness, God also led my wife, Joyce, to Himself a week later… we have been blessed by a growing, Christian marriage ever since.