A true servant of Christ!

Imagine the footsteps laid down by Mr. Hatch as he sought to bring the Good News of salvation to every unchurched soul. Imagine the unselfish time freely given by Mr. Hatch to those of us who know and love Christ encouraging us to share the Gospel. Imagine the seemingly endless line of souls waiting to welcome Mr. Hatch into Heaven, the very place he prepared them to also go.

We are truly blessed to have known Mr. Hatch, to have held his hand, to have heard his voice, and to have seen the love he and Alice poured into their family. Knowing Mr. Hatch convinced us that God does in fact put angels on earth to comfort and reassure us.

May the light that Robert was too so many burn brightly through us, and never be extinguished here on earth, and until we meet again.

Brett & Julie 

An example of a man following the leading of the Lord...

London, England, late summer, 1985, the night before returning home to Colorado. Mr. Hatch and his family are returning to London after a day out in the countryside. He notices out of the corner of his eye, a poster hung on the side of a building proclaiming “the preaching of God’s Word by Evangelist Albert Chambers – Woodgreen, North London, in the Great Tent.”

God spoke to Mr. Hatch’s heart, and Mr. Hatch heard God’s voice. He became a willing servant that night. He had to find the Great Tent; he had to hear this particular Word of the Lord. So he delivered his family to their hotel and he set out on “tube” and train to find the Tent on Woodgreen. If you know some of the “greens” in London, you know they can be huge. Mr. Hatch found his way to one corner of Woodgreen, and upon coming up out of the train station, he began to ask the whereabouts of the Great Tent. Person after person claimed no knowledge of the whereabouts of the Evangelist’s Tent. Finally a London cabbie thought maybe he had seen a tent on the edge of the green. They set out: And finally they found it.

Mr. Hatch went in and sat down and listened to the anointed singing and preaching of the Word of God by the Evangelist. It became late and the meeting was still not over, but Mr. Hatch had to find his way back to his family. They were all leaving the next day. He made contact with some of the ministry team, exchanged information, and journeyed out into the night to return to his family.

Back in Colorado, he shared what he had heard in the Great Tent and he arranged to extend an invitation to Brother Chambers to come to Colorado to conduct an Easter Convention in the spring of 1986. The Evangelist came with some of his family and he preached the Word of God. Some of us heard it, we believed, and we were blessed. None more than me. You see, Evangelist Chambers brought his daughter to sing and preach and lead the meetings by his side. And it was at that place that I met my future wife. We experienced a whirlwind, long distance courtship. In June, I visited London and the Chambers family and I asked Brother Chambers for his daughter’s hand in marriage. We were married later that summer, and Mr. Hatch joined us in the celebration of marriage in East London as our Best Man.

Through this brief story, Alberta and I, along with our children, Jerry, Elizabeth, and Kathryn would like to thank Mr. Hatch for his willingness to be a vessel of God’s will, hearing His voice and acting upon it. The Lord speaks to many of us, but only some of us hear Him and are willing to act upon it as Mr. Hatch did those many years ago.

We thank God for Mr. Hatch and what he has meant to our family, being the very vessel that God used to bring us together. We encourage all who read this to learn the lessons demonstrated to us through the faithfulness of Mr. Robert W. Hatch.

We look forward to seeing him once again in glory, rejoicing one and all! Thank you Mr. Hatch, and thank God for Mr. Hatch.