Frank Vargo ~ Senior Pastor

While living the typical party life of a young man in high school, Frank stumbled into a Bible believing church and gave his heart to Jesus Christ and was radically transformed. There he served as a youth minister for several years, after which Pastor Frank and Pastor Adam Rackliffe started Freedom Bible Church in his home. For the past 20 years Freedom Bible Church has impacted thousands of lives in Charlotte County. Frank has been married to his high school sweetheart Darla for 29 years and has 3 children, Brittany, Frank Jr, & Nathanael who are active in various ministries at Freedom. Pastor Frank has also been involved with various sports programs in the community for several years, contributing his time in coaching and assisting young people.



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Patrick Bell ~ Associate Pastor

Patrick has grown up in Port Charlotte, Florida. He felt called to the Gospel Ministry at a very young age and was ordained into the ministry in 2003 at Freedom Bible Church. Patrick spent his college years at a few different schools in the South East and graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication. Shortly after graduating, God blessed Patrick by bringing Sarah Bell into his life. The newly wed couple then moved to North Carolina pursuing a call in the ministry. After spending 1 1/2 years in North Carolina, God opened the doors for the couple to move back home to Southwest Florida to be on staff at Freedom. Partrick feels blessed for the opportunity to be able to come back home to Freedom and serve God and the great people at Freedom.


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Ryan Hoeberling ~ Worship Leader

Ryan has grown up in Port Charlotte, Florida and started attending Freedom Bible Church as a child in 1993. He has been involved in various ministries over the years including Nursery, Camp Freedom, and Youth Group. In 2003 Ryan felt called to the music ministry and began playing for the Youth Group. Later, he began playing on Sunday mornings with the Worship Band and Youth Band and in Janaury of 2011 Ryan was asked to become Worship Leader. Ryan loves being able to have the opportunity to bring people closer to God through worship music.


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Sarah Bell ~ Ministry & Office Coordinator

Sarah grew up in Fort Myers, Florida and started attending Freedom Bible Church in 2006 with Patrick Bell. Over the years she has served in the Children's Ministry and has very much enjoyed the fellowship and preaching at Freedom, and has grown to love her "FBC Family!" Sarah worked in accounting fields at FGCU and UNCC for 5 years before being called to Freedom to serve as the Administrative Assistant.




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Erik Morse ~ Youth Pastor

Erik has attended Freedom Bible Church since 1993. He has served in different ministries over the years such as Camp Freedom Day Care and other Children's ministries. Erik is our Youth Minister and has been serving as such since 2006. If you would like more information on Freedoms Youth activities or meetings, please click on the link below to email Erik or click here to go to the Youth Ministry page on our website.






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Eric Hoeberling ~ Children

Eric started attending Freedom Bible Church in 1993 as a young boy, he has been a Port Charlotte resident the majority of his life. He was part of the Awana Club program growing up and made the decision to receive Christ at a young age at a Bible Study for children in a friends home. Eric has always felt God's calling to work with children, he has been involved in many different ministries over the years which included Camp Freedom Daycare from 1998 to 2004. He is, and has been involved with Freedoms Softball ministry and also enjoys fishing and boating.




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