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 Michael E. McGee, Pastor
I want to personally thank you for visiting our church's website and to invite you to visit our church in the near future. If there is anything that I can do to help you, please do not hesitate to call the church office. We look forward to serving you and our Lord until He comes. In His Service, 
About Our Pastor Pastor McGee became senior pastor on September 16, 2007 after serving as assistant pastor for the previous 3 1/2 years. Pastor had been the youth director for the church since 1996 and was the youth pastor at Varina Baptist Church prior to coming back to Ambassador Baptist Church after undergraduate studies. Both Pastor and his wife, Meredith, felt the call to return to their home church to reach the lost of Caroline County. Pastor understands there are hurting people in our community and he desires to reach and help through our church's counseling ministry. He is also assisting in the training of others for the ministry through teaching undergraduate courses at Virginia Baptist College. He has taught Educational Psychology, Human Growth and Development, as well as assisting in other counseling courses. The church was planted by Pastor Emeritus - Thomas McGee in September of 1980 where he served as senior pastor for 27 years. Pastor Thomas McGee has planted churches in Vineland, NJ as well as Colonial Beach, VA. He is a graduate of Midwestern Baptist College and assisted in starting Virginia Baptist College in Fredericksburg, VA.
Personal Testimony and Call to the Ministry
Looking back over the years I can see how God has allowed certain things in my life to occur to prepare me for His ministry. I was saved as a young boy during family devotions while not even discussing salvation. All I knew is that I did not want to go to hell, so my father very simply led me to Christ. A few years later I had some uncertainties of whether I truly understood what I had done, so my mother went over the plan of salvation again. I made sure that there was no doubt I had asked Christ to forgive me of my sins. After graduating from a Christian High School, I enrolled at Tennessee Temple University. My desire was to enter a field where I could encourage and help people and I received a B.S. in Psychology/Biblical Studies in 1992. I began working as a case worker with children and adolescents in Chattanooga, TN. After several years, my wife and I moved back to Virginia to begin graduate studies at Liberty University. I received a Master’s Degree in Clinical Counseling in January 2001. While in graduate school I worked for a county mental health agency for 8 years and then left to become an in-home counselor with the elderly and disabled individuals in the Metro-Richmond area. Since graduate school, I have completed post-graduate work toward a Ph.D and now have been provisionally accepted in a D.Min program. I will also be finishing a Master of Ministries Degree through Virginia Baptist College (May of 2008).
I absolutely believe God has guided my family to opportunities for service as we have grown in Christ. A couple of years ago, around the time of our annual missions conference, my wife and I could feel God’s leading to do something more for Him. We both went forward and committed ourselves to His will in any area He could use us. Because of my strong desire to preach and minister to young people, I began praying about God’s will concerning some type of evangelism. As we prayed and pursued this avenue, God did not open doors. I did, however, begin preaching with our church’s nursing home ministry as well as filling the pulpit when needed. Over that next year, I could tell that God was definitely directing me to go into full-time service and was guiding me more and more to pastoring. We continued to pray for His leading and began seeking opportunities to serve in the church and reach souls for Christ. At the 2004 mission’s conference, I went forward to surrender to preach with my wife at my side. In my adult life I have never been so sure and comfortable about a decision. I feel that growing up as a “pastor’s kid” and being used as a mental health professional and counselor over the last 16 years has afforded me a unique perspective, one which I believe will be beneficial in our ministry here at Ambassador Baptist Church. These paths have been used to prepare me incrementally for His full-time service.
Pastor McGee was married in 1991 to the love of his life and since have had two beautiful girls and one handsome son. "They are the four greatest blessings in my life." Pastor and his family have another little one on the way. They are expecting their bundle of joy in late June 2008.
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