Minister Stephen M. Simpson
          I first started the ministering in1987 as a licensed local pastor with the United Methodist Church. I served as a pastor at Sanderson United Methodist Church (UMC) and Marathon UMC in Texas.  I had been formerly assigned to the New Mexico and Northwest Texas Conference and North Texas Conference in  the 80s and 90s.

          I left the UMC in 1997 and joined with Assemblies of God Independent, an international fellowship out of Southern California. This same year my wife, Leslie, and I started Voice of the Good Shepherd, Inc—a nonprofit ministry to help the homeless and others.

          I worked as a volunteer chaplain in Dallas and with Collin County Juvenile Detention Center. We moved to San Antonio in late 1999 and my wife Leslie was diagnosed with cancer in 2000. She passed away in August 2003 and I relocated to New Braunfels, TX in 2005.

          The ministry due to my misery suffered greatly, only helping out when contacted and not seeking and searching to find God’s children who needed help.

          In 2007 my brother Bruce contacted me with his wife Sally and said the Lord was leading him to help others and perhaps we could do it together. Sally reminded me of a vision Leslie and I had back in the 80s and that is ‘minister to the ministers’. Leslie and I realized that many people left the pulpit because they had no one to minister to them and in most cases limited funds in which to vacation from the daily routine.

          What this ministry hopes to accomplish is to have funding available to assist all denominations’ pastors and ministers to a retreat. We would like to start giving by helping with monetary assistance and maybe one day building a retreat in the Hot Springs, Arkansas area.

          As the Good Shepherd left the 99 and searched for the lost 1 in scripture, we feel we must go minister to that pastor to help him build him or her up and his or her family…emotionally, spiritually, and financially so they can continue their good work in the name of the Lord.

Stephen Simpson

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