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Pillsbury
Baptist Bible College; Hyles-Anderson
College, B.S., M.Ed., D.D.;
Pastor of First Baptist
Church of Hammond, Indiana;
Twenty-three years of
teaching experience; Youth
director for two years; Bus
captain for eleven years;
Sunday school teacher for
twenty-two years.
Pastor Jack Schaap was born
into a middle-class working
family in Michigan. He grew
in a very secure home, where
he learned strong family
values. He was led to Christ
at the age of five by his
sister, Kristi, as he sat on
the edge of the bathtub.
Through his junior high and
high school years he worked
side by side with his dad in
the field of construction.
He learned the value of hard
work, and his dad became his
hero and best friend. His
parents hosted many visiting
preachers, and several of
them challenged him to pray
about going into full-time
Christian service. Through a
burden to reach a couple of
his lost school friends,
Brother Schaap surrendered
to God’s call. He attended a
Bible college for one and a
half years. During that time
a Hyles-Anderson College
graduate became Brother
Schaap’s home pastor and
pointed him to Hyles-Anderson
College where he enrolled in
January 1977. Through some
miraculous experiences, he
met and started dating Cindy Hyles about six weeks later.
Brother Schaap graduated
from college in May of 1978
with his bachelor’s degree.
He received his master’s
degree in May of 1979. On
June 1, 1979, Jack Schaap
and Cindy Hyles were
married. Brother Schaap
began teaching Bible and
English at Hyles-Anderson
College that fall. He later
became an assistant to the
president. Then in the
spring of 1996, he became
vice
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