Pastor Carl Gallups has been the senior pastor of Hickory Hammock Baptist Church in Milton, Florida since 1987. He is a critically acclaimed Amazon TOP-60 best selling author of numerous books and a radio talk show host since 2002 (1330 AM /99.1 FM / 1620 AM / 92.3 FM / ADX Communication Broadcasting Group).
Pastor Gallups is a former decorated Florida law enforcement officer, having served with two different sheriff's offices under three different sheriff's administrations. He was the recipient of the Law Enforcement Officer of the Year Award - twice - once in each of the two sheriff's offices for which he worked. He received a commendation of valor as well as a commendation of meritorious service. He was given an award by a regional chapter of the NAACP for risking his life in the line of duty after going into a burning apartment complex to pull several occupants out to safety. Carl was Florida's very first 18-year-old Corrections Officer with the Florida Dept. of Corrections. In some of the last years of his career he served as the Assistant to the Administrator of the Bureau of Admissions and Release Authority with the Florida Dept. of Corrections Central Office at Tallahassee, FL.
Carl is a graduate of Florida State University (B.Sc.), The New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div.), and the Florida Law Enforcement Officer Training Academy (including many different law enforcement and investigations specialty training classes). Carl serves on the Board of Regents with the University of Mobile, in Mobile, Alabama - since 2000.
Carl is a frequent guest on numerous television and radio programs. He is also a popular Bible and Prophecy conference speaker. Carl opened the Donald Trump for President Rally in Pensacola, FL in January 2016. This was then-candidate Trump's very first Florida Rally. He was also deputized, in 2016, as a Special Deputy by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, formerly of the Maricopa County Arizona Sheriff's Office.
CARL SAYS: My passion in life is to faithfully advance the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, equipping believers to be faithful ambassadors of that Kingdom work. We are living in the most profoundly prophetic times since the first coming of Jesus Christ. I am striving to wake up the church-at-large to this biblical truth.
There are two primary ways that we can help you or a loved one with addiction problems.
1. We have an on-campus Addiction Recovery meeting and class called Chainbreakers. It meets several times a week. This ministry is for those with addictions, or for those who have a loved one with an addiction and just needs deeper understanding about the matter of addiction and addiction recovery.
2. We have a deep ministry alliance with Redeemed Ministries in Cleveland, AL.
Our Pastor's son - Brandon Gallups - is an associate pastor at Redeemed Church and is a long-time addiction ministry specialist working under the senior pastor Chris Gortney. Redeemed ministries runs a highly respected and renowned in-house addiction program. They minister to people from all over the nation, and they often have people in their program coming from our own region.
If you or a loved one needs to speak to someone at Redeemed about getting in their program, please call our church office 850.623.8959 and we will put you in touch with the appropriate addiction counselor and intake person. In an emergency, and after office hours at the church, you can call 850.232.3648 and someone will help you get the process for addiction ministry started.
OR - You call our church office 850.623.8959, Mon. - Fri. 8 AM CT - 2 PM CT and ask the administrative assistant that answers to put you in touch with someone from our church who can assist you in this matter. Your particular situation will be handled with the utmost of integrity and discretion.
OR - You can contact Redeemed Ministries directly. Their website is www.redeemedmin.com
Redeemed office number 205.429.3767 -- email: intake@redeemedmin.com
HHBC is a hands-on missions and outreach oriented church family.
We are continually engaged in extensive work on the Gulf Coast, and in our local area, in the areas of disaster relief, Vacation Bible School ministries for smaller churches, Pregnancy Resource and pro-life ministries, and regional relief to those in true need.
We put feet-on-the-ground, from among our own people, in Peru, Guatamala, Africa, and Vanuatu.
Since 2002, we have consistently and generously supported the Jack Goldfarb Christian School in Comas-Lima Peru. It is a school for needy children in a poverty sticken area outside of Lima. We send financial aid and send mission teams that work along side our brothers and sisters in Peru.
We are ministry partners with the
Christian Missionary Alliance Church of Comas - Pastor Angel Barrientos.
We are also a long-time and deep ministry partner with Messianic Rabbi Zev Porat of Messiah of Israel Ministries in Tel Aviv, Israel. Pastor Carl and Rabbi Zev are dear friends and ministry partners. They do TV and radio outreach together, Bible and Prophecy conferences all over the U.S., and trips back and forth between Israel and the U.S. They have written a book together - THE RABBI, THE SECRET MESSAGE, AND THE IDENTITY OF MESSIAH. That book is leading many Jews in Israel and around the world to Jesus as Messiah and Lord. See Rabbi Zev's minister HERE
We have a number of people in our church deeply involved in Kairos Prison Ministry International.
Our church also gives a sizeable portion of our overall budget resources to various missions endeavors: local, regional, national, and international. We also give through the Cooperative Progam (Missions) of the Southern Baptist Convention.
