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A Wounded Daughter's Survival: A Damaged Life Healed by Hope and Truth|author=Deborah Leigh Alexander|publisher=iUniverse|location=Bloomington, [[Indiana]]|date=2011|pages=317|isbn=978-1-46203302-7|accessdate=June 22, 2014}}</ref>
A Wounded Daughter's Survival: A Damaged Life Healed by Hope and Truth|author=Deborah Leigh Alexander|publisher=iUniverse|location=Bloomington, [[Indiana]]|date=2011|pages=317|isbn=978-1-46203302-7|accessdate=June 22, 2014}}</ref>
He returned to Snyder and was associate pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church there.<ref name=shirley/> In December 1969, with some twenty-two believers, many being family members, Hatfield, then forty years of age, started Faith Church, which initially convened in a few meeting rooms of the Scurry County Coliseum in Snyder. The original church building began with barracks procured from the former Reese Air Force Base in Lubbock, Texas, temporary quarters which have since been expanded, updated, and consolidated at the original location, 208 37th Street in Snyder. In 1991, Jason Rogers, later a missionary in [[South America]], succeeded Hatfield as pastor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.freewebs.com/revjohnson35/staffoffaithbaptist.htm|title=Staff of Faith Baptist Church|publisher=freewebs.com|accessdate=September 20, 2009}}</ref>
He returned to Snyder and was associate pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church there.<ref name=shirley/> In December 1969, with some twenty-two believers, many being family members, Hatfield, then forty years of age, started Faith Church, which initially convened in a few meeting rooms of the Scurry County Coliseum in Snyder. The original church building began with barracks procured from the former Reese Air Force Base in Lubbock, Texas, temporary quarters which have since been expanded, updated, and consolidated at the original location, 208 37th Street in Snyder. In 1991, Jason Rogers, later a missionary in [[South America]], succeeded Hatfield as pastor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.freewebs.com/revjohnson35/staffoffaithbaptist.htm|title=Staff of Faith Baptist Church|publisher=freewebs.com|accessdate=September 20, 2009; no longer on-line}}</ref>
In 1984, Faith Baptist under Hatfield hosted the fundamentalist pastor [[Jack Hyles]] (1926-2001) of the First Baptist Church of Hammond, [[Indiana]] in suburban [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]], for a one-night revival meeting in the Scurry Coliseum. Independent Baptist churches from throughout the region, such as [[Ross Spencer]] of Bethany Baptist Church in Lubbock, sent members by bus to hear the nationally known Hyles, a native of Ellis County, Texas. Hatfield himself also preached at Hyles's church in Hammond.<ref name=shirley/> Faith's website proclaims that the church "believes in old-fashioned preaching, King James Bible, door-to-door visitation, and loving the brothers and sisters in Christ!"<ref name=history/>
In 1984, Faith Baptist under Hatfield hosted the fundamentalist pastor [[Jack Hyles]] (1926-2001) of the First Baptist Church of Hammond, [[Indiana]] in suburban [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]], for a one-night revival meeting in the Scurry Coliseum. Independent Baptist churches from throughout the region, such as [[Ross Spencer]] of Bethany Baptist Church in Lubbock, sent members by bus to hear the nationally known Hyles, a native of Ellis County, Texas. Hatfield himself also preached at Hyles's church in Hammond.<ref name=shirley/> Faith's website proclaims that the church "believes in old-fashioned preaching, King James Bible, door-to-door visitation, and loving the brothers and sisters in Christ!"<ref name=history/>