Lanny Faulkner has served as our Pastor-Teacher since April, 2007. He also serves as the Chairman of our Elders. He and his wife, Lin, have been married for thirty-nine years and they have three adult children, four grandsons, and two step-granddaughters. He served eight years in the Air Force and is a Viet Nam Veteran. He is a graduate of Tennessee Temple University, Covington Seminary, and he earned his PhD from Louisiana Baptist University in Shreveport. He has previously pastored churches in Georgia, Arkansas, and Waukegan Illinois. From 1994 until 2010, he served as the Associational Missionary for Central Baptist Association in Decatur, IL.
He has been blessed by the Lord to serve as President of the Illinois Baptist State Pastor’s Conference, President of the Illinois Baptist State Fellowship of Directors of Missions, and has conducted over one-hundred and twenty revivals and conferences in Illinois. He served as our Pastor-Teacher bi-vocationally for three and one half years, and began his full-time ministry here in October, 2010.
