PARKWAY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Pastor
• Home People Pastor
• Pastor Bill Heming / Pastor

I was born in Seattle in October of 1977. A few weeks later I was baptized at St. Bernadette's Roman Catholic Church in Burien. The first decade of my life was that of a strong Catholic upbringing. I attended parochial school, Catholic mass 6 days a week and excelled in religion class. All that came to an end with my parents' divorce and I wandered spiritually over the next decade engaging in deeply sinful behavior. I was angry with God for my pain and my religious background had not equipped me to deal with that spiritual crisis. The third decade of my life changed everything. It began a week before I turned 21 after I transferred to Western Washington University. I arrived there angry, hurt and lost-a sinner in need of a savior. Then on October 18, 1998 I met a man also named Bill who had just been released from prison where he had met Jesus. We talked for a while and then prayed. I wandered off from that meeting, prayed and in that prayer the Holy Spirit converted me and by the will of the Spirit I put my full faith, confidence and loyalty in King Jesus the Risen, trusting him as the Lord of my life and the Savior of my soul. Shortly after that night a friend took me to the INN, a college ministry, and there I was discipled and grew as a new believer. I met the pastor of FPC Bellingham who loaned me a copy of Calvin's Institutes to read alongside my prolific study of the Scriptures. As I read my Bible I studied Calvin and became convinced of the Reformed position. I have maintained my loyalty to the Presbyterian system and Reformed theology ever since. Eventually I worked for the INN for a year before starting my career in the finance industry as a stockbroker for a little mutual fund company.