Harold Bullock is the founder and Senior Pastor of Hope Church, an innovative Southern Baptist church in Fort Worth, Texas. Hope began in 1978 with a vision to help with planting churches in the major cities of the world. During the past 25 years people going out from Hope have planted more than 70 churches. Hope is currently a congregation of 800+ in attendance with nine full time and five part time staff.

Harold grew up in northeast Tennessee and graduated from East Tennessee State University (ETSU) in 1967 with a degree in mathematics and chemistry. He pursued graduate studies in physical chemistry at ETSU and Ph. D. work in physical chemistry at the University of Southern California. He has worked as a research chemist for Kodak, and also taught chemistry at Pasadena College in the LA area.

Harold began full-time ministry as Director of Student Ministries on staff of the Los Angeles Southern Baptist Association, with the job description of starting Baptist Student Ministries on several campuses in the eastern LA region.

In 1974 the Bullocks moved to Fort Worth to attend Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. They both graduated with a Master of Divinity degree in 1977. In Jan 1978, they began Hope as a mission of James Avenue Baptist Church.

During the 1980’s Harold traveled widely for the North American Mission Board speaking in Urban Evangelism forums and also doing national and regional conferences for the Student Work Department of the Sunday School Board. Since the 90’s he has spoken at numerous church planting conferences and taught occasional courses at Golden Gate Seminary, Midwestern Seminary, New Orleans Seminary and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Harold has authored a series of fantasy adventure books for elementary-age children, the Tarlian Adventures. The first three books in the series, The Battle For The Worlds, The Crystal Castle, and The Dragon Of Raldan are in print. Silver 4, the first volume of an action adventure series for junior high students is also in print.

Harold has also written several non-fiction books, Sharper Strokes - Working Smarter, Not Harder, Fools & Follies: Biblical Patterns That Live Today and Self-Defeating Strategies: The Roots of Life’s Problems. All three books are used as university and seminary texts.

Harold’s wife, Deborah, is a native of Oklahoma and a graduate of UCLA. She is a former newspaper feature writer and also worked in Pasadena, California as an administrator in urban renewal. She originally designed the communications system for Hope. From 1995 to 2000, Deborah worked part-time for Hope, leading in revising the Children’s Ministry and creating the Youth Ministry. They have raised three children: Jessica, Gina and Jon.