Pastor

Pastor Holman is a native of Sacramento.  He graduated from Sacramento High School, attended Sacramento City College, and the University of Nevada Reno where he studied business administration and secondary education. He worked for the State of California for 27 years in many capacities, finally retiring in the year 2000 to the call of full time ministry.

Pastor Holman comes from a family of pastors.  His grandfather, the late District Elder Thomas Holman, was founder of Christ Temple Apostolic Church here in the city of Sacramento California.  Pastor Holman learned to minister and care for people under the mentorship of his late father, the District Elder Robert B. Holman Sr., successor of Christ Temple Apostolic Church. 

At twenty years of age, he was called to the ministry of preaching and teaching G-d’s word.  He served in the ministry his father pastured for more than thirty years.  During that time, he became a very good organizer of choirs which lead him to become the third minister of music in the history of the national organization of which he belonged, an organization that was over fifty years old.

Over the years, Pastor Holman has watched the dynamics of economic, social, and cultural change shape the city of Sacramento.  These changes, along with the prompting of the Holy Spirit (Ruach HaKodesh) have lead him to pastor a congregation that reflects Hebraic biblical teachings, the scriptures.

He has pastured First Tabernacle Fellowship since its inception September 1994.  He has helped many people get their lives in order by being straight foreword with G-d’s word for their lives.  Because ‘Truth Matters’ to him.  While teaching from the book of Exodus he saw what the Ruach wanted him to see, that the Sabbath was a perpetual covenant that G-d has established for his people, everyone who believes.  With this in mine in January of 2006 just twelve years after the start of the ministry pastor Holman directed the ministry to return to the commands of G-d by honoring the Sabbath and adhering to His commandments, and the Hebraic roots of scripture.

Pastor Holman believes these are the times when The Creator, Blessed Be He, is calling people to return to the Torah.

“For out of Tziyon will go forth the Torah the Word of Adonai from Yerushalayim” Yesha’yahu (Isaiah) 2:3.