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dmcclung@fbchawkinsville.com
pastor@fbchawkinsville.com
Don McClung has been the pastor of FBC
for more than 11 years.
Personal:
Don grew up in Stone Mountain, Georgia, with four brothers and
four sisters. He has been married to Carol Ann Valerius for 29
years. They have two children: Carrie (27) and David (25). (Carrie
is married and she and her husband Nathan are students at Mercer
University’s McAfee School of Theology in Atlanta. David is a
graduate of Savannah College of Art and Design where he currently
resides.) Don enjoys softball, football, and golf. He also enjoys
reading (favorite author is Louis L’Amour and spending time with
family and travel.
Education:
Our pastor graduated cum laude from Mercer University in
Atlanta in 1977 with a B.A. degree in history, from Southern
Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky with a M.Div. degree, in 1983, and
from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary with a D.Min. in
1995. He also studied Marriage and Family Therapy one year Mercer
University School of Medicine.
Experience:
Don has been our pastor since July 1997. Before coming to
Hawkinsville, he had served as pastor of First Baptist Doraville,
Georgia, and Goshen Baptist in Glen Dean, Kentucky. He also served
ten years as a missionary with the Foreign Mission Board of the
Southern Baptist Convention: as a Journeyman missionary in Kenya
(1977-1979) and a career missionary in Recife, Brazil, and in the
state of Alagoas, Brazil (1983-1992).
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