Rick Spencer became the Interim Pastor at the First Christian Church in August of 2024. He and his wife, Cindy, celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary that same year. They have four children whose 1st letter of each of their names spell S-L-A-B in the order they were born (Sarah, Luke, Anna, and Ben). Rick’s career has always been geared around laying foundations, which coincidentally is another word for “Slab” (more than a coincidence as you continue to read). They also have four grandchildren. 

 

Rick has a Master’s Degree from Texas A&M (where he also lettered in football) and a Master’s Degree in Theology. His fifty-one years of profession include thirteen years in coaching, twelve years as an administrator, and twenty-six years in ministry. Coaching experience included serving as the Head Football Coach and Athletic Director at his alma mater in Lexington, TX, from 1981 to 1983. Administration included being the Associate Principal at Galveston Ball High School for five years.

 

He started two churches and pastored each for seven years (Fairfield Church in Fairfield, Texas, and Rockdale Christian Fellowship in Rockdale, Texas). In 2001, he led ten ministers to New York and organized a Prayer Station at Ground Zero for ten days. In 2003, his church in Rockdale built a church in Durban, South Africa, and he went and dedicated it the same year. He founded Fairfield Christian Academy and was the Headmaster for seven years. The Academy grew from twenty-six to 115 students. From 2005 to 2010, Spencer organized and conducted Father’s Day Conferences across the United States, preaching the “UNCONDITIONAL Love of God”. In his early years, Rick did biblical dramatizations dressed in bible costume and reciting books in the scripture as if it were a sermon, which included the Texas State Convention for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. The Lexington Food Pantry, based out of FCC, is the 6th food pantry he has begun or helped organize. 

 

Spencer reinforces that he is temporarily helping out till the Lord brings  FCC their next leader. He jokes, “My energy level is high and I am having a blast, but I am 74 years old!”