Brainerd baptist school board of directors

After a long search, Brainerd Baptist Church, a storied local congregation that has cycled through multiple senior pastors in the past decade, has selected a new man for the role -- and he said he plans to stick around for a long time.

The church congregation this month voted to call Curtis Hill to preside over the year-old multisite church.

Hill will be a familiar face to longtime members. He served as an associate pastor for about seven years at Brainerd Baptist Church before going to a congregation in Delaware.

He'll fill the new senior pastor role in Chattanooga early next year.

By phone Wednesday, Hill said Brainerd Baptist played a formative role in his own life. He hopes to provide cohesion and stability there and deploy more young people into ministry.

In the late s, Hill got his master of divinity at Temple Baptist Seminary, whose old location is now part of Redemption to the Nations Church in Highland Park.

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