Troy DeFeo
Pastor
About
Troy DeFeo is a native resident of Garland, TX. As a Junior in High School, he was introduced to a ministry called Young Life. During a weekend retreat with Young Life at Pine Cove Ranch in 1989, Troy surrendered his life to Jesus as his Lord and Savior. At that time, not realizing what God was doing, Troy was called to the ministry.
Troy graduated from Texas Tech University in 1995 with a degree in Family Studies, Counseling, and Substance Abuse Addiction. During his time at Texas Tech, he was involved in a variety of ministries like Young Life, Campus Crusade, and the Navigators. During his last two years, he discipling many college students during the week to create a core leadership team for future ministry endeavors. While also completing his counseling practicum at McKenzie Junior High, Troy worked full-time at Lubbock’s Buckner Children’s Residential Treatment Facility for troubled teens. This is where his calling really took a turn for the extreme crisis interventions.
Troy was part of several church plants over the years, including the restructuring from Lyons Road Baptist into Living Hope Baptist Church. Troy has been on staff since 1998. From 2007 to 2023, Troy worked full-time for Garland ISD as an educator while serving on staff at Living Hope. Pastor Troy has been recognized as an award-winning educator by Governor Abbott, Senator Bob Hall, Junior Achievement of Dallas, and Garland Power and Light, and has been named Garland ISD Teacher of the Year and Special Education Teacher of the Year.
Troy has served as the Pastor of Living Hope since July 2014. He enjoys pastoring, counseling, and writing books and curriculum. Troy is the author of four books: One Day- 100 Day Devotional, Kruptos Hamartia-Sacred Sins, Leaving Your Harbor for Heaven, and an exegetical study of the book of Revelation called From Jerusalem to Jerusalem. Troy has written many marriage seminar curricula and has hosted Monday night’s Q&A topical Bible studies for years for his church.
Troy is also the founder of One Day Ministries: Consulting and Pastoral Care, where he assists people, businesses, and especially churches in times of crisis. Troy’s experience runs extreme from missing persons, infidelity discovery, adolescent runaways or skip-tracing, online-sex trafficking with minors, drug/alcohol treatment placement, sensitive pastoral issues, church splits, church plants, elderly long-term placement, Wills and POAs referrals, funeral implementation, assisting couples with financial budgets and debts, extreme hoarders, investigating cults, paranormal behaviors, and spiritual warfare issues. As a Baptist pastor, Troy has been a “go-to” trusted confidant in the community who can quickly assess situations and get people the help they need in pretty much any crisis.
Some of Troy’s favorite things are traveling, going to the movies, writing, studying biblical doctrines and ancient biblical archeological artifacts, studying history, helping people with problems, preaching, spending time with his family and church members, training other pastors and members on a variety of topics, while drinking coffee with friends.
Pastor Troy is married to Jaime DeFeo and has two adult children, Camryn and Pearce.
(For confidential or crisis intervention, please email Troy directly below with specifics. Troy is NOT a Private Investigator but holds a Private Security License and owns One Day Ministries: Consulting & Pastoral Care, which assists with many of life's challenges. www.onedayministries7.com)