PCA Teaching Elder John-Gregory Farrell entered glory at 6:51 AM (CST) Thursday, January 27, 2011 after a long struggle with cancer. Pastor Farrell was Senior Pastor of Bay Area Presbyterian Church in Webster, TX.

John-G, 48, began serving as the Sr. Pastor of Bay Area Presbyterian in November of 2004. Sadly, on November 15, 2010, John-G had to suspend his active pastoral ministry due to his disabling illness. At that time, the Houston Metro Presbytery and Bay Area Presbyterian Church voted to move him into an honorary status of Pastor Emeritus.

A native New Yorker and former police officer, John-G. came to know Christ in a personal and saving way in 1985 and sensed a call to the ministry three years later through a new found love of the Scripture.

Prior to his arrival at Bay Area, Pastor John-G. was privileged to be part of the ministry team which planted Christ Church, a PCA congregation on the west side of Houston in Katy. Prior to that he had been Sr. Pastor of Kingstree Presbyterian Church in Kingstree, SC and associate pastor of Woodruff Road Presbyterian Church in Simpsonville, SC.

An alumnus of Nyack College (BA Philosophy), Alliance Theological Seminary (MA Old Testament Studies), and Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary (M.Div/Th.M), John-G.’s passion for Scripture found expression through his expository preaching/teaching ministry where one found a sprinkling of allusions to many of his interests: sports, food, history and popular culture.

Married in 1987, John-G’s widow Kim is also a graduate of Nyack College and the New School for Social Research in Greenwich Village New York. John-G is also survived by four beautiful children Katie Beth (a cello performance major at Baylor University), CJ (a sophomore at Clear Lake HS), Molly (age 13), and DJ (the rambunctious 6 year old). John-G. enjoyed music, sports, reading, sailing, and was an inveterate Astros fan.

A memorial service is planned for Saturday, February 5, 2011 at 4:00 PM at Christ the King Presbyterian Church 1201 Silber Road, Houston, TX 77055. Please be in prayer for the family, friends and congregation that will sorely miss this godly husband, father and pastor.