Our Leadership
Dr. Robert I. Potter
Director of Church Planting
Dr. Potter earned his BS degree in Secondary Education from Kent State University. He earned his BA in Pastoral Studies from Moody Bible Institute and has done additional work at the University of South Carolina, Baptist Bible Institute in Cleveland and Baptist School of the Bible in Cleveland. In 2010, he received his honorary doctorate from Bob Jones University. He has been in the ministry for over forty years.
Dr. Potter served as the Senior Pastor at Grace Church of Mentor for thirty-four years, during which time the church was instrumental in the planting of ten new churches.
In 2006, Pastor Potter stepped down as Senior Pastor and became the Director of Church Planting. Since then he has helped pulpit-fill for several churches in Ohio while continuing to travel across the country promoting Arch Ministries.
Pastor Larry Hobbes
Assistant Director of Church Planting
Pastor Hobbes is a native of Pennsylvania where he studied Bible at Baptist Bible College in Clarks Summit. After graduating with his M.Div., he pastored First Baptist Church in Castle Creek, New York for over seventeen years. During that time the church was instrumental in the planting of Bethel Baptist Church near Albany, New York.
After serving on a church staff in northwest Indiana, Pastor Hobbes took on the role of planting a church in Lafayette, Indiana. Berean Baptist Church has been established and called a Pastor in February 2007. Pastor Hobbes has relocated to northeast Ohio as a church planter and is also working on postgraduate studies at Northland Baptist Bible College to enhance his ministry skills. His burden for Arch Ministries is to encourage local churches across the United States and Canada to pick up the slack in the work of planting new churches in obedience to the Great Commission.
Board of Directors
Pastor Andrew Henderson
Tampa, Florida
Pastor Tim Lovegrove
Menifee, California
Pastor Tim Potter
Mentor, Ohio
