68JBT4-Callender,Luk
Collegiate/University Missionary
Westfield Massachusetts
Central Baptist Church
April 11
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About My Family
I am Luke Callender. I studied music at the University of North Texas and later graduated from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2018. I served as a chaplain at a county jail in Texas for eight years. This ministry training has proven to be more valuable that I can express. The Lord is perfectly wise in His providential timing!
My wife, Dominee, our three sons, Augustus, Rufus and Virgil, and I moved to New Bedford, Mass., in April of 2019. We had the profound blessing of participating as Grace Harbor Church was planted and established in the West End of New Bedford. In 2021, Grace Harbor Church installed me as one of her pastors.
In 2025, the Lord sent us out from a vibrant, healthy church in New Bedford to pastor Central Baptist Church in Westfield and to minister to the College Campus at Westfield State University.
My wife, Dominee, our three sons, Augustus, Rufus and Virgil, and I moved to New Bedford, Mass., in April of 2019. We had the profound blessing of participating as Grace Harbor Church was planted and established in the West End of New Bedford. In 2021, Grace Harbor Church installed me as one of her pastors.
In 2025, the Lord sent us out from a vibrant, healthy church in New Bedford to pastor Central Baptist Church in Westfield and to minister to the College Campus at Westfield State University.
About My Ministry
New England is America’s missional frontier. In a 2019 study, Barna determined western Massachusetts to be the #1 most post-Christian region in the nation.
Central Baptist Church’s history dates back to the 1830s. The church has seen thriving seasons, trying seasons and everything in between. The past several years have been a season of difficulty and decline. But the Lord has preserved this church. Please pray fervently with us that the Lord will restore the life and witness of Central Baptist Church.
Westfield State University is only three miles down the road. Please pray with us that we would cultivate a consistent gospel presence on campus and to minister the Good News to those students that they might become disciples of the Lord Jesus.
Ahead of us are decades (not years) of faithful endurance. The Lord indeed is faithful.
Central Baptist Church’s history dates back to the 1830s. The church has seen thriving seasons, trying seasons and everything in between. The past several years have been a season of difficulty and decline. But the Lord has preserved this church. Please pray fervently with us that the Lord will restore the life and witness of Central Baptist Church.
Westfield State University is only three miles down the road. Please pray with us that we would cultivate a consistent gospel presence on campus and to minister the Good News to those students that they might become disciples of the Lord Jesus.
Ahead of us are decades (not years) of faithful endurance. The Lord indeed is faithful.
