Dr. Charles Kirby has been a preacher for over 50 years, pastoring some of the finest, fastest growing and largest churches in the nation. He served as the interim preaching pastor at Restoration Fellowship Church from November 2018 through April 2019, and served as senior pastor at Lake Gibson Church in Lakeland, FL for 19 years before retiring from full-time ministry in May 2017.
He began his preaching ministry in his first year of college after God healed his stuttering, stammering tongue. He began to get calls to preach revivals on the weekends during his college days. He would leave the college campus on Fridays, travel across the Southeast to preach Friday night through Sunday night, returning to the campus usually early on Monday mornings for an 8:00 a.m. class. After He and Bess married, they continued in revivals until they began their pastoral ministry in a home mission church with three people.
Charles Kirby continued preaching in conferences and camp meetings for 35 years while maintaining his pastoral ministry and preaching on Sundays in his local church. He has preached in over 45 states and districts to multiple denominations including Wesleyan, Churches of Christ in Christian Union, and Missionary Denominations.
"It goes without saying, God has blessed me abundantly and beyond my greatest expectations as a preacher of the Gospel of my Lord. Every morning God wakes me up He reminds me He is not finished with me yet. The preaching flame has been burning in my heart since I was a young boy preaching in a make-believe church in the barn at my old home place. It will not go out until God calls me home!"
