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Staff of Hawkinsville First Baptist Church

Dr. Donald L. McClung, Pastor

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).

 

   
Carson Britt,
Minister of Music and Youth

cbritt@fbchawkinsville.com

Carson Britt, Minister of music and youth, leads Connection Youth Ministries. Carson works along side his fiancé, Jennifer Powell who serves as Associate Minister of youth.  They are both full-time students at Mercer University, where Carson Britt is studying Music and Christianity, and Jennifer is studying Early Childhood/Special Education.  Originally from Savannah, Carson and Jennifer are adjusting to Macon and Hawkinsville with the help of their amazing First Baptist Church family!   Carson and Jennifer are enjoying serving together with the wonderful youth at FBC and Carson is enjoying his work with the church’s music ministries.  Their prayer is to see the youth group grow in spiritually and numerically.  Pray that they will be the encouragement that the youth need at this point in their spiritual journey!

 

   
Jennifer Powell,
Associate Minister of  Youth

jpowell@fbchawkinsville.com
 

 
   
[pic here] Mrs. Evelyn Qualls, Administrative Assistant
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Mrs. Cheryl Howard, Organist
choward@fbchawkinsville.com
 
 
[pic here] Mrs. Marla Garnto, Pianist
  mgarnto@fbchawkinsville.com
 
[pic here] Mrs. Raina Smith, Children's Weekday Ministries, Director
rsmith@fbchawkinsville.com