A Bruce Sabados and his wife has visited our church several times now. Though I find myself lack of the opportunity to communicate with them. They were seen talking to our pastor most of the time and occasionally attended our Thursday Bible study. He has a website: https://bruceasabados.com/ according to which, it's likely his background is Baptist. It appears that he was ordained senior pastor in Calvary Bible Church, a Baptist church in NJ (His installation video @1:03:52 of https://livestream.com/cbcnj/events/8847119/videos/197515191) and the only sermon of his I could find in short. However, apparently he's no longer the church's staff anymore now according to the church's staffs page, which is curious, since his installation was in 2019 (Oct. 6), pre-Covid19. I wonder what happened.
This also prompted me in wondering: How does one, graduated, certified, having the right resume, get to work in a church? Questions of denominational principle (i.e. John in our church reminded me that this Presbyterian church would not have hired a Baptist-baptism pastor) is not enough, but also how they relate to the congregants. This is of course, trying already. For I never really support the idea of hiring a strangers on pastoral staffs, but if it must, then there are tons of questions.