Robert Loran Ford

Robert Loran Ford was born on a cotton mill village in western North Carolina. At age twelve my family moved to Spartanburg, S.C. and soon after high school I joined the Air Force and became a Navigational Specialist. After the Air Force I went back to college to pursue a career in ministry. After college I decided to enter Golden Gate Theological Seminary in Mill Valley, CA. I became Youth Director at Chinese Grace Baptist Church in San Francisco. After ten years in various pastoral roles, I ended up as Director of Pastoral Care at a hospital in Hickory, N.C.

Along the way I switched from the Air Force to the Army and eventually was deployed to Germany as part of a back fill for the First Armor Division which was deployed to Iraq. Eighteen months later I came home to retire from the Army with a Meritorious Service Medal and a Humanitarian Service Medal.

The North Carolina Chaplains Association presented me with the "Chaplain of the Year Award in 2005.

It is hard for me to believe how God has used a shy, introverted person like myself in so many facets of ministry. This is truly Amazing Grace.