Dr. Philip Attebery is the Dean-Registrar and Professor of Church Ministries at Baptist Missionary Association Theological Seminary in Jacksonville, Texas. He holds a B.A., Southern Arkansas University, 1987; M.Div., Baptist Missionary Association Theological Seminary, 1990; a D.Min., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1995; and a Ph. D. from Dallas Baptist University, 2014. Dr. Attebery served as Pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Magnolia, Arkansas and later as Director of the Association of Baptist Students at Tyler Junior College and the University of Texas at Tyler before assuming the position of Dean-Registrar at BMATS. He has co-authored Galilean Leadership Training and Recreation Guide, BPH, and Male and Female Created He Them.
David received Christ at the age of 13 while attending Daniel Springs youth camp in East Texas. He graduated from Fairfield High School in 2005 and received a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Kinesiology with a minor in Secondary Education from Sam Houston State University in December 2009. In the winter of 2016, he began to sense that a call to preach had been placed on his life. In September of 2017, he surrendered to preach and began pursuing his Masters of Theology in Preaching and Pastoral Ministry through Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in January of 2018.
David returned to Fairfield from La Vernia, Texas, where he was on the staff at Grace Bible Church. He had been their Discipleship and Small Group Pastoral intern, and was responsible for developing and implementing curriculums for discipleship which aligned with Grace’s mission and vision statements. His duties at Grace included training and commissioning new small group ministry leaders, and publishing literature and newsletters to keep the 750-plus member congregation engaged. He had numerous leadership responsibilities Including adult Bible Study Leadership Committee, Small Group Discipleship Coordinator, organizing, leading and preaching at conferences and camps and elder leading and shepherding.
David and his wife Kayla have three sons: Tripp, Waylon and Wyatt.
Buddy leads worship on Sunday mornings.
Leslie leads worship on Sunday evening and Wednesday evening.
Charlotte Mullen has been going to Calvary Baptist Church since 1958 when she and her husband Buddy were married. She became an actual member of Calvary in 1975 when she accepted the Lord as her personal savior and was baptized. A native of Teague, Texas in Freestone County, she and Buddy had dated for 2-1/2 years. She graduated in May and was married to Buddy the following November Throughout her 44 years as Calvary’s secretary/clerk, she taught the children’s Beginners and Primary classes and was a constant helper in the nursery. She is currently a longtime member of the Friendship Class and she and Buddy have two children and four grandchildren.
Charlotte has been Calvary’s secretary and clerk for 44 years, beginning in 1976 and that was her first job since getting married. She was a homemaker because ‘Buddy never wanted me to work’, she stated. When Glendale Black asked her if she would take the secretary/clerk job at Calvary, she said she told Glendale ‘you’ll have to ask Buddy first.’
Her responsibilities as secretary/clerk include taking care of the financial records, preparing the financial statements each month, preparing the church’s weekly bulletin, answering calls to the church and ‘everything else that comes up’.
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Cole Ridge has accepted the maintenance position for our campus facilities. We are excited to have him serve the church in this way!