At a young age, Paul and Jamie followed Jesus and committed their hearts and lives to Him.  They were both active in their respective churches when they crossed paths during their teenage years while serving on staff for two summers at Windermere Baptist Assembly.  They were married in 1986. 

In the early 1990s, God called them both to minister while attending Life Christian Center. Paul and Jamie started Clean Heart Recovery, a ministry to those addicted to pornography and support for their spouses.  With this call from God to minister to hurting people, they established Hole in the Roof Ministries in 1996 and began holding the renamed Pure Life Recovery out of their home.  In 1999, they changed gears and launched an inner city church plant renamed Hole in the Roof Ministry Center. After a short time, they soon found themselves in a lawsuit with the City of St. Louis over zoning laws. Unable to open their church location, Paul and Jamie did whatever they could to share the love of Jesus. They launched a sidewalk Sunday school for kids in the nearby housing projects, washed windows for the local businesses in their neighborhood, and used their home to hold weekly church meetings.  Though they won the lawsuit against the City of St. Louis in Federal court, they lost their original church location.

From 2000 to 2010, Paul and Jamie pastored Hole in the Roof Ministry Center in various locations. They also ran a food outreach ministry, Bread of Life Outreach, till a lack of funding forced their closing. After a three-year sabbatical, Jamie and Paul launched a faith-based sports ministry called Gateway City Aquatic Club in 2013.  They coached and mentored many children and teens through the ministry’s USA swim team affiliation.  Unfortunately, the sports ministry closed during the pandemic.  After being sidelined for a season, they have relaunched Hole in the Roof Ministries.

Paul and Jamie have faced many obstacles and trials through the years, both individually and together, including:

 

    • Paul’s continuing struggle with a mental illness (not diagnosed until 2001.)

    • Jamie holding the family together and raising the children during those years.

    • Financial struggle and homelessness

    • Teenage pregnancy

    • Dealing with the death of two children and the loss of parents

Despite all the challenges in their life, Jesus has been a constant source of comfort and faithfulness to them.   They continue their mission to “Lower the hurting to the feet of Jesus while sharing about God’s Faithfulness.”

Paul and Jamie Hamilton are licensed and ordained through the Assemblies of God International Fellowship. They believe that God has qualified them to minister through the power of the Holy Spirit, through the equipping of God’s Word, and from lessons learned through life’s journey.  

They reside in St. Louis, Missouri, and have five children and six grandchildren. 

OUR BELIEFS

THE BIBLE:  We believe the Bible is the infallible  Word of God. The sixty-six books of the Old and New Testament came from the very mouth of God and are without error in the originals. Scripture is therefore the unique and supreme guide for all it affirms, including both belief and behavior.

 

GOD:  There is one God, infinitely perfect, without change, creator of all yet not created, distinct from His creation yet everywhere present, perfectly balanced in all His attributes, omniscient over all time, wholly sovereign. He alone is the sole object of worship. God exists eternally in the persons – Father, Son, Holy Spirit – equal in essence and divine perfection, all three uncreated, executing distinct, but harmonious offices.

 

GOD THE SON:  God the Son is fully God and fully human, without confusion or mixture, the unique and only Son. He existed before time, was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, lived a sinless life, died on the cross as the sacrifice for our sins, was physically raised from the dead as prophesied, ascended into heaven, and is now exalted, sitting at the right hand of God the Father, interceding for the saints as the sole mediator. He will return to earth, and ultimately every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.

 

GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT:  God the Spirit is sent to convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. He fully indwells every true believer as a guarantee of his inheritance, guides and empowers them, gifts them for ministry, intercedes in accordance with the will of God, and witnesses to Jesus.

 

DOCTRINE OF MAN:  Adam and Eve were both created in the image of God. They disobeyed God and died, spiritually and physically. Therefore, all people are objects of wrath, sinners by nature and by choice. They are dead in their sins and incapable of pleasing God. Without the direct intervention of God, they will live separated from God, die in their sins, and receive the condemnation that their sin deserves.

 

DOCTRINE OF SALVATION:  Salvation from sin and access to God are available only through the work of Christ on the cross, given by God’s grace, mercy, and love, received solely by faith in Jesus Christ. In conversion, the believer is drawn by God to Himself, repents and turns from his sins, is redeemed, declared wholly righteous, born again, made alive in Christ as a new creature, reconciled to God, becomes a child of God, and is filled with the fullness of the Holy Spirit through whom he is empowered for a life of obedience. The cross is sufficient to cover the sins of all who believe.

 

MARRIAGE:  ‍We believe that the Christian covenant of marriage is sacred, defined by God in the Scriptures, remaining as a holy symbol of Christ and His enduring covenant with the church, and as such cannot be redefined by man or any civil government but remains as a covenant between one male and one female. As followers of Jesus Christ, this is what we mean when we use the word “marriage”. This differentiation from other types of unions is not one of condemnation or judgment but one of devotion to Jesus, the Scriptures, and the community of the Holy Spirit.