Reverend Herbert T. Agee, Assistant Pastor

 

From Pastor Herb

 

Pastor Herb was born in Tennessee, but grew up in South Carolina. He felt a call to preach as a teenager and actually began preaching at a small mission church during his senior year of high school. He attended Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, where he received a Bachelor Degree in Speech-Communications. He had the opportunity to travel in missions with the church and spent one summer in Mexico and one summer traveling with a quartet through Guatemala. He attended the Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri where he received his Master of Divinity degree. While in seminary, he also began his training in hospital chaplaincy.

After graduating in 1978, he was called to the Stuart Church of the Nazarene in Stuart, Florida. While there he became involved with the Stuart Police Department as a volunteer chaplain. In the next two years this evolved into a full-time job as a police officer, EMT, and chaplain.  After five years in Stuart, Pastor Herb accepted a call to the First Church of the Nazarene in Lakeland, Florida.  He was pastor there for nine years while continuing his hospital training at Tampa General Hospital and serving as an on-call chaplain for Lakeland Regional Medical Center.

In August of 1993, Herb moved to Rockledge, Florida to become full-time chaplain at Wuesthoff Hospital. While in Rockledge he also served as a volunteer chaplain for the Rockledge Police Department.  After training in Critical Incidence Stress Management in Atlanta, he became a part of the county CISM team.

In 2003, Pastor Herb became involved with some bikers through the accident and death of a nurse's son who was a member of a motorcycle club. This relationship eventually led to his buying a Harley and becoming a biker himself. Herb had been given the nickname "Padre" while living on a sailboat a few years before and the bikers picked it up.

While serving as hospital chaplain, Herb became friends with Rev. Dave Baldridge, who was serving in Merritt Island at the same time.  Dave moved to Englewood in 2003.  In 2005, at the suggestion of Pastor Dave, Herb was hired to serve as assistant pastor at EUMC.

Pastor Herb also runs a benevolent organization that can be found at:

www.stfrancishelps.com.

He is married to Dr. Candy Quigley, who works as a physician for Tidewell Hospice and Palliative Care. They have three children: Scott, Natalie and Ross.

 

 

 

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Following the example of Jesus Christ, the Englewood United Methodist Church shall strive to make God and His Kingdom more real through our caring, worship, study, fellowship, and outreach. To this end, as a Servant Church, we offer ourselves and our facilities to the Christian growth of all persons.