About
Phillip Robinson
Phillip is a 1978 graduate of Middle Tennessee State University and a fourth-generation grocer who surrendered to vocational ministry at New Vision church in 1999. His ‘well-managed’ life was violently rocked when his dad was murdered in 1986. Although a professing Christian since the age of 12, the events of November 1986 propelled him on a quest to discover that the God of the Bible does not fit into a ‘well-managed’ life. A life-long resident of Rutherford County in Tennessee, he and his wife Susan have three children by birth, one son through marriage and five grandchildren. Phillip currently serves as director of pastoral care at New Vision Baptist Church.
Ron Hammer
Ron is a Marine Corp veteran who served in Vietnam and was honorably discharged in 1980. He’s an entrepreneur whose talents include car restoration and repair, woodworking and home repair. In 1987 Ron Hammer and accomplice Steve Kyger were sentenced to life in prison, plus 35 years, for the 1986 murder of grocery owner Wayne Robinson, the father of Phillip Robinson. Ron’s life has been radically transformed by Jesus Christ and today he shares a remarkable friendship with Phillip. Ron lives in the Shenandoah Valley area of Virginia with his wife, and childhood sweetheart, Sharon.