Learn about the heart and vision behind Hope Baptist Church.
Senior Pastor & Founder of Hope Baptist Church
Hope Baptist Church was started by Pastor Peter Nugent and a small group of believers in 2021. Pastor Nugent had been in the ministry since 1996, having pastored Grace Baptist Church of Lees Summit, Missouri for nearly 25 years.
There are many choices for churches in Overland Park, Kansas, but very few churches that preach and teach out of the King James Version of the bible.
We decided to start a church that balances two things; the grace of God and the truth of the bible.
"And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ."— John 1:16–17
We began meeting in a hotel conference room at the Hilton Garden Inn of Overland Park, and will continue to meet there until the LORD provides another location that is both convenient and affordable.
I was raised in a religious home, a strong Roman Catholic. During college, and early in my corporate career, several people witnessed to me and told me about God's grace, but I did not accept Christ as my savior.
Then, in 1983 my wife and I came to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. It radically changed our lives, and I went back to school at a local bible institute, and was ordained into the ministry in 1994.
I served as a children's pastor at our church, as well as preaching in small churches throughout the Midwest that were in between pastors. In 1996, we started Grace Baptist Church in Lees Summit, and served there as senior pastor.
I have a burden to see people accept Christ as their saviour, and raising a new generation of believers that are fully committed to follow Christ and grow as believers.
I have been married to my wife Kathy for 48 years, and we have two grown sons, who have families of their own.
We'd love to meet you and your family. Join us this Sunday for worship, fellowship, and biblical teaching.