Definitely one of the most fun families you’ll ever run across!  

Since 2000 the Pleasant Valley Church of Christ has been my home and I have loved serving as a youth minister in this place, with this people.  While that relationship is ongoing and a powerful mutual blessing, this community has been very intentional in confirming and helping me to develop a gift of preaching.  Both Pleasant Valley and I understand that this may at some point lead to our movement to another place, and we pray that God will help us all discern when the time for such a move is appropriate and beneficial to God’s kingdom. 

It may be that you have come to this site aware of a congregation in need of a preaching minister, and if so I hope you’ll spend some time getting to know us in the brief material posted here, which now includes a brief story, pictures, and videos of our family,  a resume, and recordings of some recent sermons.  There is also a blog that might help you get a feel for who we are.  Ultimately, I hope you’ll feel free to contact us and get to know us personally and allow us all to prayerfully consider how such a relationship might bless God’s people and work for his glory. 

Grace and Peace,

Steven Hovater