Peter Kammar
Treasurer
No matter what size the church is, someone must understand its financial state to aid in achieving its goals. That is what Peter does for Faith by utilizing his accounting degree from Bob Jones University (BJU) and his prior work experience. For Peter, money is a tool. The state in which one keeps one’s tools clean, sharped, and safe, impacts the quality of work. The same is true for that of a local church’s finances. A church must be able to be accountable, understand its financial capability, and its financial flexibility to have a strong support to its local body and community.
Peter loves being heavily involved with a local church. This love stems from his birth and upbringing in Jerusalem, Israel as a missionary kid. There, his family spent their lives reaching lost souls within the Arab community and tried to build a local church. The Lord blessed their efforts in 2004 by providing building to become the place of worship, and He allowed the church to be recognized by the Israel Government as a religious institution (this was an important milestone). During Peter’s time there, he was shaped by the challenges and hardships that serving the Lord brings, but he also experienced the joy that it brings too. Unfortunately, the ministry there that was his life had to come to an end after he turned 18 years of age, as his citizenship was an American one not Israeli.
Nevertheless, God showed his love to Peter by bringing him to Greenville in August of 2013. There Peter attended BJU and chose Faith Baptist Church to be his local church. Since that date, he has never left the area nor Faith (Greenville became his new home). God allowed Peter to graduate from BJU on May 2017, gave him a job at a construction company for four years, blessed him with a wife, Emma, on June 10, 2021, and became Faith’s Treasurer on October 18, 2021. These journeys have pushed him to trust God more, and he would argue that they have prepared him to bear his responsibilities through Christ as Treasurer. He strives to abide by Matthew 6:33-34 – “but seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”