South Fork Baptist Church Pastors
240+ Years of Connecting People to Jesus!
Here are some of the men God has called and used at South Fork over our history.
1782-1802 - Benjamin Lynn
1804-1807 - Jonathan Paddock
1808-1811 - No Pastor (church split over slavery)
1813-1814 - David Elkin
1815-1820 - *Jonathan Paddock
1820-1829 - John Hodgen
1829-1861 - W.M. Brown
1861 - Robert Enlow
1862-1863 - The Civil War
1868 - D.J. Brown
1872 - J.P. Bryant
1877-1879 - W.L. Pierce
1880 - W.L. Ramsey
1881 - *W.L. Pierce
1883-1884 - *D.J. Brown
1885-1890 - J.B. Turner
1890 - M.B. Peterson
1891-1900 - W.J. Puckett
1900 - W.T. Parrish
1906-1909 - Don Q. Smith
1909-1910 - H.S. Bell
1910-1921 - *W.T. Parrish
1921-1925 - R.A. Cave
1926 - C.E. Sanders
1926 - *H.S. Bell
1927 - 1931 - *R.A. Cave
1931-1936 - R.P. Merritt
1936-1938 - Dan Beltz
1938-1945 - Manly Towles
1946-1948 - L. Clyde Allen
1948-1952 - W.T. Smith
1953-1955 - Jim Bouchillon
1957-1957 - Virgil Peters
1957-1959 - Johnny Lee Taylor
1959-1961 - Eugene Reynolds
1961-1964 - George Smith
1964-1967 - Larry Adams
1967-1969 - William G. Reeder
1970-1971 - Robert Sowder
1972-1976 - Lonnie Turner
1976-1979 - Sammy Gilbreath
1979-1981 - Richard White
1981-1988 - Robert Y. Simpkins
1988 -2001 - Dan King
2002-2010 - Norm Brock
2011 - Present - Jonathan Carl
* indicates the 2nd time the pastor served
Here are some photos of our pastors.
