Pastor Billy Crone
Bio/Testimony - Pastor Billy Crone is the Senior Pastor of Niagara Frontier Bible Church as seen here pictured with his lovely wife Brandie and two children, Rebecca and Billy. He is also a gifted author, counselor, conference speaker and teacher and has spoken to thousands of people across the United States as well as internationally through the teaching ministry of Get A Life! International. Click on the audio link below to hear a recent television interview featuring the true life testimony of the earthly rags to heavenly riches story of how Pastor Billy Crone, by the grace of God, turned from being a former drug addict, heavy metal head banger, sexually immoral, male chauvinist pig, to Preacher of the Gospel. Fav. Verse: Romans 5:8 - “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Email: bcrone@niagarafrontierbible.com Testimony Audio: Download |
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~ Elders ~
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Neil Neumann
Bio/Testimony - I've been blessed to have had the privilege of teaching the adult Sunday school class for at least 30 years. Also presently I'm an elder and on the worship team. My cousin, Tom Clement was having a home Bible class on salvation called The Good News put out by Moody bible Institute. It was at that time in October 1968 that I realized that Christ had paid fully the penalty for my sin and repenting and trusting in Christ alone could save me. He drew me to himself and I'm eternally thankful. The confirmation was my attitude toward sin and actually loving god's people, totally changed.
Fav. Verse: Romans 5:1 - "Therefore having been justified by faith, we (I) have peace with (God) through our Lord Jesus Christ." Email: |
Mark Neumann Bio/Testimony - I was brought up in a Christian home where biblical values were lived and taught. As a child I remember being sensitive to sin with a very active conscience. It was at a revival meeting at the church I attended that I realized I had sinned against God, (Romans 3:23) and was in need of a Savior. It was at this point that I prayed by faith putting my trust in Christ as my Savior (Ephesians 2:8-9) One thing I lacked was assurance of salvation leading me to think I needed to be saved over and over instead of just getting back in fellowship with God when I would sin. (I John 5:13, I John 1:9) I have grown tremendously over the years by being in the Word, fellowship with other believers and being under the teaching of many great men of God. I'm so thankful for the process of growth in the Christian life and realize that I'm only just beginning to taste the wonder of my God. I coordinate the worship teams at the church. We have two worship teams one led by myself and the other by Mike Cuddahee. The worship teams alternate weeks and help lead our people during the worship services. I am also an elder at the church and am responsible for the following areas: Worship, Music, Baptism, Communion, Ushers/Greeters, and the Sound System. Fav. Verse: Phillipians 4:6-7 - "Be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God and the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." Email: |
Mark Gildner Bio/Testimony - Coming Soon! - - - Fav. Verse: Coming Soon! Email: |
Todd Neumann Bio/Testimony - Hi, my name is Todd Neumann and I grew up in the Ransomville area. I married my beautiful wife Kippra in 1988 and we have lived in Wilson ever since. I have three wonderful girls named Kasey, Kayla , and Abigail. We also have a guinea pig named Snoopy. I teach 5th grade at Thomas Marks in Wilson. I have gone to this church all my life. I have served a term as a deacon and now Im currently an elder. As an elder the most important responsibility I have is caring for the physical and spiritual needs of the people at N.F.B.C. I oversee the following areas: Prayer, Caring and Benevolence, Nursery, Children's Church, and Caring Groups. It wasn't that long ago when I remember being totally empty and afraid. I was afraid to be who God made me to be, and I had a great need to be accepted by everyone. I remember wanting, longing to be accepted by others but I was just to afraid to open up and be me. I often tried to fill this void of fear and emptiness with trying to prove my worth by playing sports. I also went to many movies to try and climb in someone else's world even if it was only for a couple of hours. Finally, I started to drink alcohol. This made me feel like I could be me and yet I didn't have to be accountable for the things I would say. Well I ended up at a funeral parlor looking at one of my sister's old boyfriends in a casket. He had been in the car with a driver who fell asleep at the wheel. Two weeks before, I had fallen asleep at the wheel of my car and went in to a small ravine. I really started to think about my life after this and if I was to die what place I would be going. A church friend of mine who loved to ask me to play sports with him and then ask me about my relationship with the Lord, ask me once again to play with him. I said yes, and before long we started having a little bible study together. At the time of the accident he was sharing with me about how a Christian can know for sure that he's going to heaven. I realized at this point that I wasn't sure because I didn't see anything in my life that said that I truly had a relationship with God. I went to bed and while laying there I told God that I repented or turned away from the lifestyle I had been living. I surrendered my life to Him completely trusting Him to save me from my sin and take me to heaven. It was like a huge burden had been lifted from my shoulders. I no longer had to fake it, I could be who he made me to be. Immediately the next morning my desire was to love my sisters which I often fought with. I knew my life had changed forever. Since that day I have grown in my salvation. God has been changing me in many ways. The process is slow but my relationship is steady and strong with Him. I'm free to be who God made me to be, not controlled by fear and insecurity. Best of all the void I had has been filled with the love of God, and I know without hesitation where I am going when I die. Fav. Verse (How can you pick just one?) : Luke 10:27 - "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind and, Love your neighbor as yourself." Email: |
Kevin Michael Bio/Testimony - Being raised in a home that went to Church on Sunday, I never gave it a second thought about what happens when we die, we just went to Heaven. That changed when I was 12 years old. My dad died and it made me question what happened to my dad. The answer came several months later when my best friend invited me to a Bible believing Church. I heard for the first time my need of a Savior and it made sense to me. I was saved at that moment. My life changed. I hungered for things of God. I went to College and received my Bachelors in Biblical Literature to prepare for the ministry. After not saying strong in God’s word, I failed in the battle and fell away from God. It took several years and God brought me back to the fold. I repented of my sins and have been forgiven of all the sins I have committed. I am excited to be serving Him here at Niagara Frontier Bible Church. Fav. Verse: James 5:16b-17 - “The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective. Elijah was a man like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.” He was a sinful man like me, willing to be used mightily for God. That is my prayer, God use me for your glory. Email: |
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Dave Gifford Bio/Testimony - I was privileged to have Christian parents and at the age of nine I went forward at our church and was baptized. I had the head knowledge of Salvation, but not the heart assurance. After discharge from the military I enrolled at Pillsbury Baptist Bible College in Owatonna, MN. It was at Pillsbury in 1962 that the Lord really saved me with a mind and heart assurance. I remember printing on the face of the Bible pages, “saved to serve” Jesus is real. Fav. Verse: Proverbs 3:6 - "In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths." Email: |
Russ Ortman Bio/Testimony - I was saved at age 25 when first hearing what Jesus did for me at the cross, that I could have my sins forgiven and be assured of going to heaven. I have been the treasurer at NFBC for about 10 years and currently serve on the deacon board responsible for finances and insurance. - - Fav. Verse: Proverbs 3:5-6 - "Trust in the Lord with all your heart; lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and He will direct your path." Email: |
Steve Fisher Bio/Testimony - I grew up in a Christian family. At the age of 8, I attended a Christian summer camp. I was saved during that week of camp when I went forward during an altar call and trusted Christ as my Savior. - - Fav. Verse: Phil. 4:13 - "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." Email: |
Steve Ortman Bio/Testimony - I was saved when i was 5 years old through our churchs AWANA program. It became real to me as I reached high school and went on mission trips to West Virginia and southern New York. It has become even more real to me as I gothrough our Sunday School class "I Really Want to Change, So Help Me God." I am the deacon responsible for the outside (lawn cutting, plowing, parkinglot, etc.), and the use and care of the church van. I also coach and captain the mens softball team and work with the youth group. Fav. Verse: Proverbs 16:3 - "Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed." Email: |
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~ Youth Ministries ~
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| Mike Cooper Youth Leader Bio/Testimony - Coming Soon Fav. Verse: Coming Soon Email: |
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Mary Bugay Secretary Bio/Testimony - I was baptized Lutheran, raised Presbyterian, married Episcopalian and my husband was catholic where I attended the Christmas Eve Service. I guess you could say, with regard to the whole religious circuit I have been there, done that and got the T-shirt. I praise God for the churches He led me to. He had a purpose for each one as he continued to draw me to himself. In 1976 my husband's brother Mike and wife Bonnie began to witness to the WHOLE family of their new relationship with Jesus Christ and invited us to attend their church. On June 21, 1976 THEY invited THEIR Pastor to visit our home. It was then that I learned God's plan for me; that Jesus died on the cross to pay the penalty for my sin and not only mine but for the whole world and it was my sin that separated me from a Holy God and my sin that would keep me from entering His Holy Heaven. I believed in my heart that there was a heaven and often prayed that there was no hell. I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt between the two places I definitely would choose to go to heaven so I repented of my sin and trusted Jesus death on the cross to wash away my sin and make me white as snow before a Holy God. At that moment God no longer saw my sin but His Son. The weight of the world was lifted off of my shoulders and the emptiness I felt in my heart was filled with His Spirit. I began to attend Calvary Baptist Church and was saturated with the truth of God's Word for the very first time. What Jesus, you were with God before the foundation of the world (not just born as a baby on Christmas)! Jesus you are God in the flesh? Scripture proved to me over and over again the truth about God and I began to grow in my faith. Fav. Verse: Psalm 37:4 - "Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart." Email: |
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~ Media Ministries ~
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Kyle Prohaska Director of Media Production Bio/Testimony - I grew up at Niagara Frontier Bible Church since I was a little kid, a baby in fact. My mother was always a big player in the different events, ministries, etc. so I got to tag along alot of the time since my dad was traveling in those years. She was director of a couple ministries so I suppose I got away with some stuff that others wouldn't, like being able to go to events for people way older than me since she had nowhere else to send me at the time, so it was nice, I got a bit big for my briches if you know what I mean. I don't remember much about my Christian walk when I was between 7-13 or so but I do remember being on fire for the Lord sometime around then. I was a happy kid until I hit about 6th grade. I went to a private Christian School called Victory Christian Academy and that year changed me alot. I gained alot of weight, got into fights for the first time, developed alot of bad habits and was basically an outcast. It even got to the point where I stood against the wall at lunch and stole my lunch from the cafeteria. I fell away from God completely, mostly because I think I didn't understand why he put me at that school, and I missed my old class. When I got back to my normal school system things got worse since I had missed the year when my class and the other elementary class merged, which was a year prior so I missed that initial bonding point between the schools. School went on and rivalries developed along the way, I still had lots of anger towards people. The worst thing that came out of that 6th grade year was my hate for people. I didn't even want to be around other people let alone talk to them. Things just went downhill more and more until I went to a convention wtih my mother in Canada. It was then I think God really showed up to tug at my heart and I wept and asked him to help me. After that I remember being on fire for a while but it died out quickly, I didn't really continue the walk as I should have. From then on I was the typical statistical Christian who was "Playing church." It wasn't until Joshua Revolution in 2005 that I truely gave my heart to Jesus Christ. I gave him my soul while I was there and from then on whether I backslid a little or not, I had this feeling I couldn't escape and that was the Holy Spirit tugging at my heart trying to help me in times of doubt and trouble. Although things went sour for a bit and it did take me a while from there to get on my feet I now have a solid understand of my purpose here on this earth and that is to reach others and tell others about Jesus. In 2006 my life truely took a turn for the better when in search for a new Pastor our church invited a man by the name of Billy Crone to come visit. It just so happened that he was invited to stay at my home by my mother (her hospitality always bugged me at times but now I understand WHY). Not even 5mins after Pastor Billy and his family arrived at my home did my mom mention that I was into computers, video editing, and things of the sort. Pastor rushed upstairs and for the next couple hours we talked about the church and if he became Pastor the possibilities that could arise, and I got completely excited. I knew from that moment in my heart that it was my purpose to do the videos and related things for the church, but it would be a while before Pastor could even be considered to be an official Pastor at NFBC. I was working at a restaurant by the name of the Brickyard and I felt like I was back at Victory Christian, bad environment meant bad influences and I struggled daily to keep my composure while at work, without breaking in my weakness before God. Once the day came along for the congregation to vote on Pastor Billy I couldn't control myself at work, I watched the clock all day until it was time for me to leave, then I sped all the way to the church and rushed in the door and when I found out the vote had passed I was so happy. From then on we started the media ministry the very first sunday he preached, with nothing but an flimsy old tripod and a new homemovie type camera that Pastor had bought with his own money, and the NFBC Media Ministry was born. I quit my job at the Brickyard right away and began looking for a new job that could allow me to have time to do the church work and make some money. As we continued through the year things got better and better, the videos looked better, audio got better, website was put up and went through countless changes and looks. I couldn't find a job anywhere at the time and it was months before anything came up. Then in Aug. I heard something that I wont forget, I was asked to work at the church for pay as the Media Director. It didn't take me .01 milliseconds to say yes and now the ministry is just exploding. We have new equipment, an office, a new burner to copy the DVD's, a new camera, and as of Sunday May 20th I'm officially working a fulltime job at Niagara Frontier Bible Church. We've reached others with our DVD's in about 5 other countries and distributed 1000's of DVD's and CD's in just this year alone by our own church congregation of about 200 people on avg on sundays. Its amazing to see God growing and using this ministry and myself to reach others for Christ and now after a full year we are farther than I ever thought we could get in even 5 years time....it was Gods plan all along. So I'm in college taking very minimal classes to make sure I can concentrate on my job at the church because I know its where im supposed to be. Now of all things we are planning to do a movie of our own to reach others for Christ. This ministry is new, its exciting, and its a joy and honor to be apart of it. Reaching others for Jesus is the #1 priority of this ministry no matter what the cost and im excited to see what this new year brings. Fav. Verse: Habakkuk 2:2-4 - "Then the Lord answered me and said. RECORD the vision and inscribe it on tablets, that the one who reads it may run. For the vision is yet for the appointed time; It hastens toward the goal and it will not fail through it tarries, wait for it; For it will not delay. Behold, as for the proud one, His soul is not right within him; But the righteous will live by his faith." |