Vince Hardy

FROM THE BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF PRIMITIVE OR OLD SCHOOL BAPTIST MINISTERS BY DAVID MONTGOMERY AND MARK GREEN: ELDER VINCE B. HARDY Elder Vince Braden Hardy was born May 18, 1963 in Perryton, Texas to Ernest and Patricia Hardy. While residing in College Station, Texas, he was baptized by Elder W. R. Daniels Jr. on October 27, 1987 and became a member of Bethel Church in Caldwell County, Texas. The first time he was called upon to speak publicly in the name of the Lord was in 1988 at Bethel Church. On November 25 of that same year, he was married to Miss Kristy Dawn Boen, the daughter of Elder Freddy Boen, and made their home in College Station. On January 13, 1991, Vince and Kristy moved their church membership from Bethel Church to the Luling Primitive Baptist Church in Luling, Texas. In March of that same year, Luling Church liberated him to the exercise of his preaching gift. In May 1993, he was ordained to the full work of the gospel ministry by Elders W. R. Daniels, Freddy Boen, J. P. Dale, Jeff Harris, Ronnie Hedges, David Montgomery, Dwayne Shafer, and Steve Wilkinson. Elder Hardy has held regular appointments at the Primitive Baptist churches located in Big Spring, Lawn, Belton, Cameron and Luling, Texas. From December 1996 to February 1998, he was the pastor of Philadelphia Primitive Baptist Church in Big Spring, Texas. Elder Hardy is currently the pastor of New Providence Primitive Baptist Church near Cameron, Texas, and has preaching appointments at the churches in Luling and Belton. Over the past ten years, Elder Hardy has driven over 190 thousand miles in preaching the gospel and ministering to the Lord's people.