Our Worship Leader's Page

Robert DeHaan Thornton
 

            I studied music at Henderson State University and from there moved to Ashdown, Arkansas where I was the Music and Youth Minister for the Bethel Baptist Church.  Prior to my time of ministry at Ashdown, I worked as part time Music Minister at the Beech Grove Baptist Church in Fordyce.

            I moved to Sheridan, Arkansas in January 1986 and began my ministry with First Landmark Baptist Church the first Sunday of February 1986.  I married Mindy Harper, daughter of the late Preston and Maxine Harper, on December 24, 1987.  After several years of praying for a child, we decided to start the process of adopting a child.  We researched the Marshal Islands and Romania as well as the USA for an agency to use for adoption.  In January of 2001, God answered our prayers and Mindy became pregnant with our son, Robert Harper Thornton.  Harper was born on October 23, 2001 at the Baptist Medical Center in Little Rock, Arkansas.

            When I began my ministry at First Landmark, I was the Music and Youth Director for the church.  Since that time the church has grown and added multiple staff positions and I now serve as Worship Leader.

I am also endorsed by First Landmark as a chaplain and have been a volunteer law enforcement chaplain for the Arkansas State Police since 1992.  I serve as Troop chaplain for Troop K out of Hot Springs, which covers nine counties from Sheridan to Mena, Arkansas.  I have received accredited and specialized training for law enforcement chaplains from the International Conference of Police Chaplains at Tulsa, Oklahoma, Dallas, Texas and Benton, Arkansas as well as training from the Arkansas State Police.

            Hobbies I enjoy are hunting, camping and spending time with family at our family lake house and boating on Lake Hamilton in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

            I desire for our congregation to grow in Christ and to come to a full understanding that it is not about us, but all about Jesus Christ.