About ME
As a young Christian in high school, God started putting me in situations where I began leading Bible Studies with classmates, teammates and friends. It was in those informal settings of teaching God's Word that I started to sense God calling me into ministry. As I fell in love with the process of studying God's Word and explaining it to others in a way that inspires a deep hope and faith in Jesus, I began to seek out opportunities to grow in my gifts and passion for preaching.
In 2006, I began studying pastoral ministry at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, IL. As a freshman in college, I heard a sermon by Dr. Winfred Neely, the head of the Biblical Exposition program at MBI, and I quickly changed my emphasis to Biblical Exposition so that I could study under his mentorship. Upon graduation from Moody (B.A. Biblical Exposition), I continued my education at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (M.Div.) to further develop and grow as a pastor and preacher. During my time in seminary, not only was God preparing me for ministry in the classroom, but I also had opportunity to preach at churches all over New England, growing in my gift and sharing it with others.
My wife, Mary, was born with Cystic Fibrosis, a life-threatening genetic lung disease, and in the years that followed our wedding in 2011, her health decline required an increasing amount of my time and attention. I slowed down my coursework in seminary to complete it in 4 years rather than 3, and it was in this season of balancing ministry outside the home and ministry inside the home that God started to teach me that CF wasn't a hindrance to his plan for our lives and ministry... but it is at the heart of it. Mary and I's journey with CF has given us a resilient passion for people in all walks of life, in brokenness and suffering, to experience the life-changing hope of Jesus through our lives and ministry.
Upon graduation from GCTS in 2014, I was awarded the Parish Pulpit Fellowship, a generous scholarship given to one graduating M.Div. student each year for continued studying of preaching in an overseas context. With the support of family, friends and Mary's medical team, we moved across the sea to Edinburgh, Scotland where I completed a Master of Theology (M.Th.) research degree on the role of the imagination in the way sermons are developed, delivered and received. While it was an amazing opportunity to grow in my academic understanding of the preaching process, it was in that year that God was continuing to refine me as a husband and follower of Jesus in the midst of the increasing health challenge of Mary's Cystic Fibrosis.
We moved back to the US in 2015, and in 2016, I accepted a call to pastor a small church in Grafton, Massachusetts, while Mary and I continued to develop and grow our online ministry. With the support of the leadership of the church, we provided recordings of my weekly sermons on my youtube channel as a resource for our online audience to engage with the truth of God's Word and the hope that is found in Christ alone.
In 2019, as Mary's health continued to decline, we began to explore the future of her healthcare, and we made the difficult decision to move to Durham, North Carolina for Mary to be followed by doctors at Duke Medical Center. Transitioning out of pastoral ministry in Massachusetts, Mary and I shifted our ministry focus to our online ministry of sharing our lives and hope in Jesus with those God brought into our influence. In November 2019, I started the Living with Hope Podcast as a space to use my gifts for preaching and teaching God's Word.
Ministry today looks different than we ever imagined, but we are grateful for the opportunity to use our gifts and passion for Jesus in unique and creative ways. Any given week, you can find us creating content through video, writing and speaking that welcomes people to engage with the hope that we find in the gospel. I continue to preach at churches, conferences and events both in person and through video content. Throughout my journey in ministry, I continue to learn that God doesn't work in spite of our suffering, but he delights working through it. It's a sermon that I've been forced to live out, but it's also one that I know that I've been called to preach.
In 2006, I began studying pastoral ministry at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, IL. As a freshman in college, I heard a sermon by Dr. Winfred Neely, the head of the Biblical Exposition program at MBI, and I quickly changed my emphasis to Biblical Exposition so that I could study under his mentorship. Upon graduation from Moody (B.A. Biblical Exposition), I continued my education at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (M.Div.) to further develop and grow as a pastor and preacher. During my time in seminary, not only was God preparing me for ministry in the classroom, but I also had opportunity to preach at churches all over New England, growing in my gift and sharing it with others.
My wife, Mary, was born with Cystic Fibrosis, a life-threatening genetic lung disease, and in the years that followed our wedding in 2011, her health decline required an increasing amount of my time and attention. I slowed down my coursework in seminary to complete it in 4 years rather than 3, and it was in this season of balancing ministry outside the home and ministry inside the home that God started to teach me that CF wasn't a hindrance to his plan for our lives and ministry... but it is at the heart of it. Mary and I's journey with CF has given us a resilient passion for people in all walks of life, in brokenness and suffering, to experience the life-changing hope of Jesus through our lives and ministry.
Upon graduation from GCTS in 2014, I was awarded the Parish Pulpit Fellowship, a generous scholarship given to one graduating M.Div. student each year for continued studying of preaching in an overseas context. With the support of family, friends and Mary's medical team, we moved across the sea to Edinburgh, Scotland where I completed a Master of Theology (M.Th.) research degree on the role of the imagination in the way sermons are developed, delivered and received. While it was an amazing opportunity to grow in my academic understanding of the preaching process, it was in that year that God was continuing to refine me as a husband and follower of Jesus in the midst of the increasing health challenge of Mary's Cystic Fibrosis.
We moved back to the US in 2015, and in 2016, I accepted a call to pastor a small church in Grafton, Massachusetts, while Mary and I continued to develop and grow our online ministry. With the support of the leadership of the church, we provided recordings of my weekly sermons on my youtube channel as a resource for our online audience to engage with the truth of God's Word and the hope that is found in Christ alone.
In 2019, as Mary's health continued to decline, we began to explore the future of her healthcare, and we made the difficult decision to move to Durham, North Carolina for Mary to be followed by doctors at Duke Medical Center. Transitioning out of pastoral ministry in Massachusetts, Mary and I shifted our ministry focus to our online ministry of sharing our lives and hope in Jesus with those God brought into our influence. In November 2019, I started the Living with Hope Podcast as a space to use my gifts for preaching and teaching God's Word.
Ministry today looks different than we ever imagined, but we are grateful for the opportunity to use our gifts and passion for Jesus in unique and creative ways. Any given week, you can find us creating content through video, writing and speaking that welcomes people to engage with the hope that we find in the gospel. I continue to preach at churches, conferences and events both in person and through video content. Throughout my journey in ministry, I continue to learn that God doesn't work in spite of our suffering, but he delights working through it. It's a sermon that I've been forced to live out, but it's also one that I know that I've been called to preach.
If you are interested in having Peter or Mary speak at your church, conference or event,
email us at preaching@peterfrey.org
email us at preaching@peterfrey.org
