Pastor Ron Peterson has been the Senior Pastor of Heritage Baptist Church since 2004.  He is a 1982 graduate of Tennessee Temple University and has been in full-time Christian service since 1980.  He has served the Lord as a Christian school teacher and coach, Assistant Pastor, church planter with B.I.M.I., and has been the Senior Pastor of three other churches.  Pastor Peterson serves on several boards including Indiana Fundamental Baptist Fellowship and Shepherd's Bethel.  He also serves as a chaplain for the Crown Point Police Department and as athletic director for the Indiana Association of Christian Schools.

Pastor Peterson is a native Hoosier, born in LaPorte, but raised in Muncie.  In 1977, he married Jami Ringler, a West Virginia native whom he met at Tennessee Temple.  The Petersons have two grown children, daughter Elizabeth and son Shannon.

Pastor Scott Wilson was appointed Assistant Pastor of Heritage Baptist Church in 2007.  He graduated from Bob Jones University in 2000.  After that, he served the Lord full-time at Schaumburg Christian School for several years as a 6th grade teacher, Jr. High soccer coach, and Summer Day Camp Director.

Pastor Scott and his wife, Ruth, have two small sons, Silas and Peter, and a baby daughter Claire.