About our pastor:

  Albert C.  Hitchcock is a child of the covenant: born into a godly home, where from infancy, he was taught the Holy Scriptures which make us wise unto salvation.  He eventually attended Southeastern Bible College where he met his wife, Jane.  There he first came to appreciate the importance of expository preaching of the Bible. After college, Bert and Jane worked with Youth For Christ in the City of Chicago for two years. 

  Then, during the Viet Nam war years, he served in the United States Air Force, flying F-106 fighter-interceptors.  Though he never went to Viet Nam, the flying experience proved useful for years to come as he served many more years as a reservist in the Air National Guard, while attending seminary and planting a church in New Jersey. It was 1974 when the Hitchcocks left the Air Force to attend Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia; Bert graduated in 1978.  He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in America in 1979, and called to be a "tent-making" church planter.  There in South Jersey where they had lived during their seminary years, the Hitchcocks began to plant the Village Presbyterian Church, which became their church home for thirteen years.

  In 1992, Pastor Hitchcock was called by the Wiser Lake Chapel to come to the Pacific Northwest and be its first, full-time pastor.  Though the church is denominationally unaffiliated, Pastor Hitchcock has continued to be a minister of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), working outside the bounds of his presbytery.

  His ministry here at the Chapel is distinguished by a passion for the exposition of the Scriptures.  In his preaching on Sunday mornings, and his teaching on Sunday evenings or mid-week Bible studies, Pastor Hitchcock simply labors to open the Bible verse by verse and book by book to the understanding of God's people.  His firm conviction is that a pastor's primary calling is to proclaim, "Thus saith the Lord!"  That the Word of God, when faithfully proclaimed in the power of God's Spirit, will bring people to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, nurture them toward Christian maturity, and equip them for all kinds of service.

  Pastor Bert and Jane, once college sweethearts, have now been married for over forty years.  They have two grown children who share their parent's deep faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and strong convictions concerning the importance of God's Word.