Dr. Eric Hankins

Lead Pastor

Hope. This one word sums up the great longing in the heart of every person, the great longing for broken things to be repaired, for needs to be met, for wrongs to be put right. Hope was certainly reverberating in the hearts of the people of Judea the night a baby’s cry was heard from a Bethlehem manger. For almost five centuries they had been waiting and watching for God to do what He had promised, to send someone to lead them to freedom. Jesus was not the Savior they expected but He was the Savior they needed. He was the hope they didn’t even know they had. Their problem wasn’t political or economic or psychological. It wasn’t located in Rome or the Temple or their neighbor’s house or their spouse’s side of the bed. Their problem, THE problem, was right in the center of their very own hearts. If hope was to be experienced anywhere, it needed to be experienced in their hearts first. And so has it ever been. Jesus is still the hope of every person, the possibility that our shattered lives can be put back together better than ever. This profound Christmas hope is what we are celebrating this season at First Fairhope. Join us as, together, we lift our hopes to the only One who can fulfill them. Like children who can barely sleep for the expectations of Christmas morn, let’s open together the gift of Hope .Merry Christmas!   
Pastor Eric