Our Pastor

Pastor - Leon Ross

I came to know Jesus as my Lord and Savior in 1963 and surrendered to the ministry in 1971. I am a graduate of Jacksonville College, the University of Texas at Tyler and the BMA Seminary in Jacksonville, Texas. I am a retired school teacher having taught 11 years at Buffalo High School and 17 years at Jacksonville High School. I served for 5 and a half years as the chair of the Religion Department at Jacksonville College. I was ordained to the ministry in June 1976 and have served for a year and a half as an associate pastor and youth minister at Mt Selman Baptist Church, for almost 22 years as the pastor of Sardis Baptist Church, Jewett, Texas, for 13 and a half years as the pastor of Craft Baptist Church, Jacksonville, Texas and have served as the pastor at Latch since December, 2013.