Don Ivey:  

Who is Bro. Don? Let me start out by saying Bro. Don Ivey is different from most pastors and praise God that he is. His approach to ministering to the church is positive, upbeat and he excels in relational ministry. He is also gifted with the ability of having you crying one moment and laughing the next. Born July 27th, 1950 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma at which time due to a blood clot on his brain the doctors gave him very little of hope of surviving. But, thanks to God's leading, a doctor that specialized in this area was discovered and she was able to dissolve the clot. So when you see our beloved pastor, what you see is the result of that miracle. Bro. Don moved with his mother and brother to Dallas in 1957 after his parents divorced. As a young teenager he began to show interest in music and picked up playing the guitar. In his younger years he played in several garage bands when he fell in love with country music and the style of Willie Nelson. For many years he played with the Trinity River Band from the Pleasant Grove area. On September 6, 1968, he married his high school sweetheart from H. Grady Spruce High School, Patricia (Harley) Ivey. Today, they have two sons Richard and Marquis and 4 grandsons. At the age of 27, while attending a small church in Pleasant Grove, he realized that his life was missing something. The emptiness he felt was the place that Jesus Christ wanted to occupy. During this time, on a Friday night during a service he asked Jesus to come in his life. For a while, like most, he walked the center line and continued playing his music and struggling with his spirituality. After a long period of desperation he finally let God take full control of his life and mu...Expand for more