Blessed Hope Archives

Blessed Hope Archives 1980-2025. A collection of sermons, devotionals, and posts honoring the life of Rev. AllenSchaarschmidt, Pastor for 44 years. Rev. Allen E.

Also included are videos and posts by Elizabeth Schaarschmidt. Schaarschmidt (Pastor Al) and his wife, Elizabeth co-founded BLESSED HOPE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE (42 Mercer St. Phillipsburg, NJ) in 1980. A remarkably selfless man who, with his devoted family and congregation, via God's strength, built and maintained the downtown church they loved. For 44 + years, through many challenges - and in his

last few years - through five cancer surgeries, Pastor Al marched on with the platoon God provided and remained faithful to The Mission of the Gospel, to his family and to his congregation. "Pastor Al" went to Heaven on July 31, 2024, and his family will continue to post his messages, photos and videos.

09/01/2026

Missing our BH family. February 14, 2021. Question & Answer game on Valentine’s Day.

“My job, as a pastor, is not to drink tea with you all day. My job is to teach you The Word of God and to help you, as ...
08/29/2026

“My job, as a pastor, is not to drink tea with you all day. My job is to teach you The Word of God and to help you, as best as is revealed to me, how to live – today, tomorrow, next week — and warn you, as a watchman, of what’s coming.” 05.16.21 END DAYS Part 1 of 11. See the series on YouTube. (Search Rev Allen E Schaarschmidt)

In memory of Pastor Al – Today marks 2 years since his departure to Heaven. Blessed Hope is his thank you to God for get...
07/31/2026

In memory of Pastor Al – Today marks 2 years since his departure to Heaven. Blessed Hope is his thank you to God for getting a second chance at life. “I look back and see how Vietnam has worked in my life…God teaches me about His ways every day from my experiences in Vietnam. We’re in guerrilla warfare; fighting spiritual terrorists. It’s only by God’s grace we’ll get through.” – Pastor Al 02.18.24 Grace Under Fire

Happy Heavenly Father’s Day Pastor Al – Dedicated Shepherd. True Patriot. Disciplined Theologian. Compassionate Listener...
06/21/2026

Happy Heavenly Father’s Day Pastor Al – Dedicated Shepherd. True Patriot. Disciplined Theologian. Compassionate Listener. Hospice Chaplain. Promise Keeper.

Blessed Hope is Pastor Al’s THANK YOU to God for giving him a second chance at life. As he lay dying in Vietnam in 1967, at age nineteen, he cried out to God to save him and promised, if he got to live, he’d serve God the rest of his life.

It was Father’s Day, forty-six years ago today, 1980, that Pastor Al preached, (not his first sermon) but his first Blessed Hope sermon. Prior to that he had preached in prisons, nursing homes and on local main streets. He was thirty-three and soon to graduate from United Wesleyan College in Allentown, PA.

His life is a testimony of God’s miraculous healing of a crippled young marine, who was medevac’d out of Chu Lai, who left behind his beloved sentry dog, Hector, and was offloaded at Andrews Airforce Base on a stretcher, among the dead and dying, greeted by a spitting, shouting, angry mob of protestors and transported by military ambulance to Philadelphia Naval Hospital Amputee Ward with no hope of saving his damaged right leg. Rocket shrapnel had blown his artery out. God saved him and his leg; then blessed him with the strength to drive 172 miles each day to attend – full time - both Bible college and his job – and graduate with honors, in three years. His first outreach, from Blessed Hope, was Point Man Ministries, weekly meetings for Vietnam vets and their wives. Defying his surgeon’s prediction that he would hopefully walk, but definitely never run, Pastor Al registered Blessed Hope’s team for the local church baseball league. After his first hit, a home run, out of the park, we gasped; then he ran; so unbelievably fast that we jumped to our feet, with tears streaming. He became an all-star.

Pastor Al entered Heaven on July 31, 2024, at the age of seventy-six, after suffering from the effects of Agent Orange poisoning. He preached his last sermon while on portable oxygen, from a wheelchair. He was God’s-mission driven. His famous last words were: “You have a mission bigger than you.” His life continues to inspire us.

To God be the glory.

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