About The Founder's

Since 1966, Pastor Jim Sanderbeck has been developing the gift of administration that is identified in Romans 12:8. As a teacher, athletic coach, Christian social service administrator, church pastor of administration, and Christian school administrator, he has been allowing the Holy Spirit to form him into one who exemplifies the role of the Christian administrator. Since 1984, specific administrative positions have been preparing him for a corporate focus for the Kingdom of God. Now, as Founder, President, and Administrator of Rock Solid Administrative Services, Pastor Jim is positioned to administratively partner with Christian ministries and consult with the business community.

Pastor Sanderbeck holds a Bachelor of Science degree (Slippery Rock University of PA) and a Master of Arts degree (University of Pittsburgh). He is a permanently certified teacher, an ordained minister, a certified experiential education facilitator, and a certified personality and behavioral assessment professional. Pastor Sanderbeck is an ordained ministry member of Antioch International Ministries under Bishop Jim Erb (New Wilmington, PA). In addition, he participates in the services of the Institute of Church Leadership/Church Law Today for ongoing awareness in legal and administrative trends for ministry, and serves as a strategic planner with Victory Corporate Consulting. With these credentials and over 40 years of hands-on training experience, Pastor Sanderbeck is able to assist ministries and businesses with needs assessment, staff and leadership training, staff and leadership positioning, corporate ministry and business issues, long- and short-term strategic planning, financial management, and program development.

The Sanderbecks, Pastor Jim and his wife, Esther, have two grown daughters, and live in West Middlesex, PA. Pastor Jim and Esther have worked and ministered together for all 42 years of their marriage. At Rock Solid Administrative Services, that history of serving continues. Administratively, Pastor Jim provides the vision and the building of people and programs; Esther comes along side to manage, assist, and refine for excellence. Because of this consistent administrative style, “team” ministry is not a new concept to them.

Pastor Jim believes it is time for impact ministry in the world. In part, that comes because administrative infrastructure holds the weight of ministry while the anointing works in the world. If you need that in your ministry or business, you need Rock Solid Administrative Services as an impact partner .

SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY

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Our Vision

Mission Statement

It is the mission of this ministry to administratively assist in building infrastructures that will hold the weight of operations and programs at the local level in churches, Christian schools, and parachurch ministries. Additionally, it is the mission of this ministry to supply the equipping necessary so that this infrastructure, rightly networked to and within the corporate Body of Christ, can be maintained and mentored to insure continuity in the local ministry.

THE PROBLEM
1. In the natural realm, statistics clearly demonstrate that litigation against the Church and Christian ministries is at an all-time high. Out of ignorance, negligence, unnecessary risk, and complacency, most of this litigation could be avoided. In addition to leadership character flaws, inefficient operations and a lack of administrative professionalism has tarnished the reputation of Christian ministry before the general community (i.e. the world we are trying to reach). Through these issues and others, Churches are being forced to close; vision and destiny is being lost or thwarted.

2. Additional statistics demonstrate that pastors, school administrators, and church or ministry program leaders serve out very brief tenures. One of the primary reasons—“burnout.” Burnout is not of God. He never asks the believer to do something that can’t be done. The truth is that today’s ministries can not operate from old ministry paradigms. You don’t put new wine into old wineskins. These ministry leaders burn out because the administrative demands (as well as other kinds of demands) are not part of the call of God on their lives. To build the Kingdom of God, a new wineskin is necessary.

THE SOLUTION
1. According to Romans 12: 6-8, there are gifts that are given to bring fullness to the Body of Christ. One of those gifts is leadership (vs. 8), and is often referred to as the “gifts of administration.” The Greek word here is kubernesis. It means to lead as a pilot steers a ship. In other words, take advantage of all the resources, design a system using those resources, and get the ship to its appointed destination. Through the anointing of the administrator, the above stated needs, and others, can be satisfied; the Body of Christ can reach an even greater maturity. Churches, ministries, and Christian schools, especially those linked by relationship and formal networks, can utilize a common pool of administrative services and maximize the impact they have on the community while the local leaders are enabled, by the Spirit of God, to do what they have been called to do.

2. Encourage the administrator to do what he/she is anointed and called to do. As Nehemiah, one of the Bible’s greatest administrators, re-built the walls of Jerusalem, so it is time for us to build up the support structures that will hold the City of God—Zion—The Body of Christ. Then, we can rightly petition our Father—LET THY KINGDOM COME!! It’s time to get it done. Let’s get on with it.

DOCTRINAL STATEMENT

SCRIPTURES—We believe that the Old and New Testaments were written by holy men inspired by the Holy Spirit and are God's revealed word to man. They are a sufficient, infallible rule and guide to salvation and all Christian worship and service (II Timothy 3:15-17) (II Peter 1:19-21d) (Ps. 68:11) (I Thessalonians 2:13).

GOD—That Scriptures teach that there is one and only one true and living God, Who is the self-existent, and eternal "I AM", the Creator of heaven and earth and the Redeemer of mankind. That He has chosen to reveal Himself as Father Son and Holy Ghost, the same in essence, though distinct in personality (Deuteronomy 6:4; Isaiah 43:10-11; Matthew 28:19; Luke 3:22).

JESUS CHRIST—The Lord Jesus Christ is both true God and perfect man, a unique supernatural manifestation of God in the flesh (II Corinthians 5:10) (I Timothy 3:16) born of the virgin Mary after having been miraculously conceived by the Holy Spirit, (Luke 1:35; Matthew 1:18-20) the only Savior of mankind, (Acts 4:10-12, John 14:6) and the proper object of our worship.

THE HOLY SPIRIT—We believe that the Holy Spirit is a divine person, equal with the Father and the Son, of the same substance and nature; that He convicts men of sin, righteousness and judgment, bears witness to the truth, is the agent of the new birth, that He seals, endues, guides, teaches, witnesses to the sanctified, helps the believer, and indwells every true child of God. (John 16:12-15; Romans 8:14-27; II Corinthians 13:14; Acts 2:4; I Corinthians 12) As to sanctification, it is a process by which, according to the will of God, we become partakers of His holiness; that it is begun at regeneration; that it is carried on in the hearts of believers by the presence and power of the Holy Spirit in the continual use of the appointed means especially the Word of God, self-examination, self-denial, watchfulness, and prayer (I Thessalonians 4:3; I John 2:29; Romans 8:5; Philippians 2:12, 13).

The DEVIL or SATAN—We believe in the distinct personality of Satan, that he is the god of this age, author and prince of all the powers of darkness and sin, and is destined to the judgment of an eternal justice in the lake of fire. (Matthew 25:41; 4:1,3; II Corinthians 4:4; Revelation 20:10)

CREATION—We believe that God created the heavens and the Earth, including all life, "each after its own kind," by direct act and not by any process of evolution. (Genesis 1:2; Psalms 33:6-9; John 1:3; Colossians 1:16-17)

THE FALL OF MAN—We believe that man, in the person of the first Adam and through his disobedience, fell into sin, thus plunging the whole race into condemnation and death. Therefore, all mankind is born in sin and inclined toward iniquity (Psalms 51:5), and become practical sinners with the first expression of personal choice and so are without excuse before God (Genesis 3; 5:1-4; Romans 5:10-19; Ephesians 2:1-3)

THE ATONEMENT—We believe that the only escape from condemnation of sin is through the atonement wrought by Jesus Christ, when He voluntarily took upon Himself a human body, being made in the likeness of man (Romans 8:3; Philippians 2:7), yet without sin. By His suffering, death and resurrection, He made full satisfaction to the justice of God for the sin of man; (I Peter 2:24) that the blessings of this salvation are given on the grounds of grace to all who believe and confess and that it is the immediate duty of all to accept these offers of mercy (John 3:1; Acts 4:12; Acts 16:30-33; Romans 10:9-13; II Corinthians 5:17).

THE CHURCH—We believe every born again believer is, by the grace of God, accorded a place in the Body of Christ and that this Body is Biblically identified as "the Church" (Ephesians 3:3-7; Colossians 1:24; I Corinthians 12:12-23). We believe that a local church is a congregation of believers, associated by covenant of faith and fellowship of the Gospel; observing the ordinances of Christ; governed by His laws; exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in it by His Word; that its officers are apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, and teacher (Eph. 4:10-11), elders and deacons (Tim. 3:8-13 and Philippians 1:1). That it has the absolute right of self government directed by the Holy Spirit and that it is answerable only to Christ and His appointed authority in all matters of membership, policy, government, discipline and benevolences. (Acts 2:41-42; I Corinthians 11:2; Ephesians 1:22-23, 5:23-24; I Timothy 3:17; Colossians 1:18; Acts 20:17-18).

BAPTISM IN WATER—The sacrament of water baptism is a burial with Christ, to be observed, whenever physically possible, as commanded in the Scriptures by all who have repented and truly believed in the their heart on Christ as Savior and Lord; a believers baptism. (The preferred method of baptism is by immersion as this is the normative scriptural experience. However, the true circumcision of the heart, respecting the baptism experience of the believer, is honored.) They declare to the world that they have died with Jesus and that they have also been raised with Him to walk in newness of life. It is circumcision of the heart by faith and through the working of the Spirit of God (Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 10:47-48; Colossians 2:11-12).

THE LORD'S SUPPER—The sacrament of the Lord's Supper, consisting of the elements, bread and the fruit of the vine, is the symbol expressing our sharing the divine nature of our Lord Jesus Christ. We do so honoring the work of His shed blood and broken body and as memorial of His suffering and death, and a prophecy of his Second Coming. It is enjoined on all believers until He comes (John 6:48,51,53-57; Luke 22:19-20; I Corinthians 2:11-12).

BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT—The Baptism in the Holy Spirit is a distinct experience of the believer as recorded in the Acts of the Apostles and identified further in I Cor. 12:4-11. The most referred to and normative New Testament experience for those who are baptized in the Holy Spirit is the speaking with other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance. Other gifts referred to in I Cor. 12:4-11 are experienced throughout the various letters of the New Testament and are available to the believer for the manifestation of spiritual power in public testimony and service in love (Acts 1:8, 2:4, 2:42-43, 10:44-46, 11:14-16 and 15:7-9).