Bruce Brookshire is Pastor of Grace Fellowship Church. Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, he traveled with his parents’ Air Force family growing up. After living in Texas, Germany and Ohio, they settled in Warner Robins, Georgia in 1969.
He has been a musician all of his life. For the last 30 years he has been the singer, songwriter and leader of the rock group Doc Holliday. www.dochollidayband.com
Twenty years ago he began to know the love of Christ through his Mother. “She had cancer for five years and passed away in 1990. Through every step of the process of her illness, she showed me what unconditional love was. She showed me God’s loving, healing, and forgiving presence. It just blew me away.” After years of wandering he finally ended up in a church in Warner Robins and began the long voyage of discovery that led him to full-time ministry. “No one who knew me as a rock musician would have ever dreamed of me eventually being a pastor. I was really full of myself. I was so self-centered I didn’t have any room for God.”
In 2000 Bruce completed a four-year course called Education For Ministry, a program of the University of the South School of Theology. Then he began leading Bible study classes at his recording studio in Warner Robins. Several years of evangelism and music ministry followed. With the call to serve those who may feel left out in a traditional church, Rev. Bruce Brookshire joined Evangel Fellowship International and was ordained and baptized into the ministry by Rev. Larry Howard, Dr. Steve Sawyer and fellow EFI ministers at Harvest Cathedral, Macon GA in early 2005.
Grace Fellowship strives to serve the community first, not focus on the size of the congregation. Pastor Bruce wants to encourage each person who comes to Grace Fellowship to know that he or she has something special to contribute to God’s kingdom. “God loves each of us so much, and we all have something special to share. The way you love someone is unique, and what you have to contribute is unique."