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About My Family
I came to know the Lord Jesus Christ when I was 12 years old at a Royal Ambassador camp in southern Illinois. I was baptized at and became a member of Roland Manor Baptist Church in Sunnyland, Ill. I have continually been a member of Southern Baptist churches since that time. I am married and have been married to Arlene (Smith) Willis for 58 years. We have been blessed with three children, 11 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. I have served as a pastor for 37 years and have been a missionary for almost nine years.
About My Ministry
Our Lord assigned has assigned me to pastor smaller churches or start churches in areas where there were no Southern Baptist churches, with the exception of two churches. One of the churches was in Arkansas while I went to seminary. The second was a church in Tennessee for three years. Otherwise I have been bivocational as our Lord assigned us to either start churches or pastor declining churches until they became stable.