Answering God’s call

Kempner Baptist Church welcomes new pastor to guide congregation

  • James Sturgeon is serving the Baptist church in Kempner as its lead pastor. erick mitchell | dispatch record
    James Sturgeon is serving the Baptist church in Kempner as its lead pastor. erick mitchell | dispatch record
    In 2022, the idea of becoming a lead pastor started to weigh on the mind of James Sturgeon. While serving as the worship pastor at Cherokee Baptist Church, he knew God was asking him to do more. “A call more than anything,” Sturgeon said of what prompted him. “I felt like God was leading me to that. So, it wasn’t like one morning I woke up and decided I wanted to be a pastor.?...

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