Gibson Heights Second Presbyterian Church 

OUR PASTOR

 

Leo Feher was born on august 11th 1949 in Jersey City, New Jersey of a Romanian Hungarian father and a German mother.He as an RH, or commonly known as a “blue Baby”, and received a total replacement of his blood shortly after birth to save his life. His mother died of breast cancer when he was 1 ½ years old, and his father was a merchant marine who faded out of the picture. When he was 3, he was taken in by his aunt and her husband who raised him as their son. They moved to Sunnyside Gardens in Queens, and then to the Bronx, New York shortly after. He struggled with many things as a young boy.  He attended Saint Paul Lutheran Church until he was 14 years old. At that time he left church to live his life without God and without hope in the world.

After achieving many things, and trying to overcome his feelings of inferiority and inadequacy, he became confused about his life and the reason for being born. He didn’t think of the church, or the Christian faith, but in his mind he questioned the creator, and asked if He would prove He was real. The next day, when he went to his job at the telephone company, a young man gave him a tract and told him that Jesus loved him. He read the tract over and over. The next two years he received more tracts and testimonies of Christians concerning their conversion to Christ. When he was approaching 30 years of age he found a tract titled, “What Must I Do To Be Saved?”, which was written by Dr. John Rice of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Weeks later he read the tract and was converted to Christ.

His was a miraculous transformation, and he started to read the Bible many hours each day, and the Lord commissioned him to preach the Gospel in the Streets, subways and buses in the Bronx and Manhattan. He preached seven days a week for fifteen years going to and from work, during lunch in Manhattan and on the weekends in the Bronx. He was trained at Love Gospel Assembly where Gerald Kaufmann was the Pastor, and also ministered at Fordham Manor Church with Senior Pastor Irving Rivera. In July 1994 he received an early retirement from the New York Telephone Company, and the Lord sent him, and his wife Margie, to Youngstown, Ohio on September 28th of the same year. The Lord opened the door to Christ Presbyterian Church in 1998, where he was the Minister of Visitation for 11 ½ years. In 2004 the Lord opened the door for ministry as a chaplain at the Ohio State Penitentiary for 3 ½ years, and he saw the miracles of changed lives at the super max, death row and the camp. In 2010 he was called to serve as the Pastor of Gibson Heights Second Presbyterian Church, and has been there ever since.

Since 1994 he has given out over 11,000 free copies of the poem book that the Lord gave him to minister to the Body of Christ, and the lost people of this world. He and his wife Margie still reside in Youngstown, Ohio and have three children, six grandchildren and a great grandson. His life is a testimony that God uses the foolish, weak and despised things of this world to confound the wise, strong and honored people of this lost and dying world. May Jesus receive all the honor, glory, power, might and dominion for everything else is just dust.