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Staff
 Pastor Raymond H. Hawkins, MDiv.
Pastor Hawkins was born and raised in Lafayette, Indiana until the age of 17 upon graduation from High School, at which time he enlisted and served in the US Marine Corps from Fall 1971 to Spring 1979, with an Honorable discharge.
Pastor Hawkins received his calling to preach in 1976, and went on to serve as Founding Pastor of Calvary United Pentecostal Church, Dunn, North Carolina, from spring 1982 to Fall 1987, at which time he resigned his pastorate, and upon graduation from Campbell University in North Carolina with a Bachelor degree, he entered into Seminary at Louisville, Kentucky in January 1988. Pastor Hawkins was Ordained in November 1988 by the United Pentecostal Church International. He received his commissioning as a 2nd Lt., Chaplain Candidate, into the US Air Force in the Spring of 1989. Upon graduation from Seminary with his Master of Divinity degree in 1991, he served as a Reserve Chaplain, 1Lt. at Bergstrom AFB, Texas, in the Fall of 1991 to 1993, and in the Summer of 1993 entered active duty in the USAF Chaplaincy as Captain, representing the UPCI.
Pastor Hawkins retired from the USAF Chaplaincy in November 2004 and Evangelized for one year, traveling the United States and preaching in several UPC churches, and in November 2005 took the Pastorate position at Pentecostal Lighthouse, Dunedin, Florida. Pastor Hawkins also serves as a Chaplain with the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast.
His interests are preaching, teaching, travel, guitar, reading, woodworking, and growth group ministries. Pastor Hawkins and his wife Linda have been married 33 years, and have a son Matthew and his family presently living in Toledo, Ohio, and daughter Melissa and her family presently living in Orlando, Florida, and three grandchildren Mariah, Micah, and Braylon Hawkins.
 Biography for Linda K. Hawkins
Linda Hawkins was born in Moline, Illinois and raised in Rock Island until the age of 15, then moved to Edgington, Illinois. Upon graduation from Rockridge High School, Edgington, Illinois she enlisted and served in the US Army from Fall 1973 to the Summer of 1976 for three years, with an Honorable discharge.
Linda married in the Fall of 1975 to Raymond Hawkins, and the two became one in the Lord Jesus. She received the Associates Degree in Business Administration at Johnston College in Smithfield, North Carolina in 1984, and served as a Senator in the Student Government Association.
Linda served along side her husband, as First Lady of Calvary UPC in Dunn, North Carolina from April 1982 to December 1987, and as a USAF Officer Chaplains wife from April 1989 to February 2005, traveling the world over. Her interests are homemaking, travel, reading, and serving as the First Lady of Pentecostal Lighthouse in Dunedin, Florida.
Linda and her husband have been married 33 years, and have a son Matthew and his family presently living in Toledo, Ohio, and daughter Melissa and her family presently living in Orlando, Florida, and three grandchildren Mariah, Micah, and Braylon Hawkins |
