Our Pastors

Pastor Tartaglino was born in Torrington, CT, the third of six children. Through the Godly influence of his aunt (who brought them to church) he was saved at the age of fourteen and baptized a few months afterward.Upon graduation from high school, he enlisted a year later in the U.S Air Force in 1978 and was stationed at Charleston AFB, Charleston, SC. Within a couple of weeks after arriving, he was invited to attend Harvest Baptist Church by a master sergeant who worked in administration in his squadron. In 1981, after a two-week revival service he committed his life to serving the Lord and in 1985, God called him to full-time ministry.While attending Bible college in Massillon, OH, Pastor Tartaglino met and married the love of his life, Lisa Owsiany in 1988. God has blessed them with four beautiful children, Ashley, Megan, Tre’ and Katrina. (Megan and Tre’ are both married. Megan lives with her husband Duke in Connecticut. Tre and his wife Piper live in Indiana). After graduating from Bible college in 1990, he served as an assistant pastor at Harvest Baptist Church for ten years with pastor Marty Shott in New Hartford, CT. Later he joined Lighthouse Baptist Church in Waterbury, CT, serving as youth pastor for one and a half years. On August 9, 2003, we called pastor Tartaglino to be our pastor.Through our pastor, God has given us the wonderful honor to see Waterburians get saved, baptized and grow in their walk with the Lord. There is no greater privilege in the entire world than to see lives changed through the power of Christ’s gospel. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new – 2 Corinthians 5:17.