Pastors

Randy & Elizabeth Seybert, our senior pastor...

 

Associate Pastors, Dr. Edwin and Joyce Brockway


Edwin B. Brockway and his wife Joyce have been married since May 1965. They have three grown children, Jason Brockway, M.D. who is in family practice in Kilgore, Texas with his wife Deborah and their four children, Nathan, Andrew, Sharon, and Luke. Jeremy Brockway is their second son; he works as a computer draftsman for a metal building company in Tyler, Texas. Their third child, Jennette Brockway is a teacher of visually impaired children and lives in Mt. Pleasant, Texas.
Dr. Brockway received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Kansas State University in 1971. He served in the U.S. Army as a Captain in the Veterinary Corps during the Vietnam War. He was stationed in Alameda Naval Air Station in Alameda, California and the Presidio Army Base in San Francisco, California. After military duty he spent five years in private veterinary practice in Lawrence, Kansas, before answering the call of God in his life by attending Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas, Texas from 1978 to 1980.
He has been ordained in the ministry since graduating from Christ for the Nations Institute in 1980. He and his wife and children spent three years in the Tribal Homeland of Transkei in the Republic of South Africa from 1982 to 1985. Dr. Brockway was employed as a state veterinarian for the state of Transkei. He and Joyce started a church in their home while they were in Africa. They ministered to many people who would come and go from their house church.
When they returned to the United States from South Africa, Dr. Brockway purchased a veterinary hospital in Hughes Springs, Texas where he has been in practice since 1986. Dr. Brockway has been with Church on the Rock; Daingerfield from it’s beginning. He and Pastor Randy Seybert served as co-pastors when the church first began. Pastor Randy Seybert assumed the role of senior pastor after short time, and Dr. Brockway has served as Associate Pastor and member of the board of Elders since then.
He ministers with the praise team in leading worship and with solo music, and teaching and preaching.
Joyce has served as Sunday school teacher, children’s leader, and organizer of Christmas programs; and in many other ways in the early years of the church, and has spent the past few years as volunteer church secretary. Since she has become so involved in missions she is happy to be replaced by a permanent church secretary.
Joyce and Dr. Brockway have been involved in short term missions for the past few years. They have been to Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Panama with Danny and Peggy Thornton to assist in equipping children’s teachers to minister to the children of their nations. Joyce has been making “Muppet” style puppets since 1980 and has sent puppets for ministry to children, to nations all around the world with various missionaries. This current ministry involves teaching national workers to make puppets, and equipping children’s teachers with puppets to use for reaching thousands of children for Christ in developing nations. Dr. Ed assists Joyce in this ministry and also ministers in music and the ministry of helps and teaching during the mission trips.