The Staff at OBC are here to serve you! Along with our deacons, we will try to make your worship experience with us truly a blessing. And if the Lord leads you to become a member we will continue to serve you through the Deacon Family Ministry. If you need us for any reason, don’t hesitate to reach out.
Bill Goodwin
Bro. Bill began his ministry with OBC on November 26, 2017, prior to coming to OBC he served as Pastor of the Lincoln Baptist Church in Lincoln, AL for nearly 15 years and served 6 years as an Associate Pastor in Bessemer. He has served on the Board of Aid for Students in Vocational Ministry and continues to work to support Associational, State and Global Missions. Bro. Bill is a graduate of both Samford University and Beeson Divinity School. He has been married to his wonderful wife Sharon for nearly 23 years. They have two children, Thomas and Rebekah.
Linda Collins
Linda joined the staff of OBC in July of 2011. She has served churches in Bibb County, Tuscaloosa County and Shelby County. She has served in music leading children’s choirs, youth choirs and adult choirs. At Ocmulgee she also serves as director for the annual Christmas Dinner Theater. She is married to Lee Collins, Pastor of Pine Flat Baptist in the Cahaba Association. Linda and Lee have two adult children. Their daughter Lori lives in Pensacola and their son, Lane is a SBC pastor in Jackson, TN. Linda and Lee also have five grandchildren: Lyndsey, Landon, Logan, Tori and Ashlyn. They also have one great-grandchild named Luke.
Brian & Mary Blackmon
Brian and Mary have been married since 2005. They have attended OBC since 2008 and were called to be Youth Directors in June of 2017. Mary became a believer in 1996 and has been active in church for many years. She is a graduate of the University of Alabama (2009) and currently works for the State of Alabama. Brian though saved at an early age was baptized at age 23. He graduated Wallace State Community College in 1997. He has worked for the City of Selma and currently works for the Autauga County School Board. Brian and Mary have three children, Destinie, Devin and Hunter.
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OUR BELIEFS
We believe that the Bible is the supernaturally inspired Word of God. It is inerrant in its’ original manuscripts, and preserved by God in its verbal, plenary inspiration, so that it is the divinely authoritative standard for every age and every life. We believe that the Godhead exists eternally in three persons; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and that these Three are one God. We believe in God as absolute and sole Creator of the universe, and that creation was by divine action, not through evolutionary process. We believe that God, by His sovereign choice, and out of love for mankind, sent Christ into the world to save sinners. We believe that Jesus Christ in the flesh was both God and man; that He was born of a virgin and that He lived a sinless life, in which He taught and performed mighty works, wonders and signs as revealed in the four Gospels; that He was crucified, died as a penalty for our sins, and was bodily raised from the dead on the third day. Later, He ascended to the Father’s right hand where He is head of the Church, and intercedes for believers, and from where He is coming again personally, bodily, and visibly to this earth to set up His eternal kingdom.
We believe that in His death and by the shedding of His blood, the Lord Jesus Christ made a perfect atonement for sin, redeeming us from the curse of the law by becoming a cure for sinful mankind, who are saved and justified by His death, burial and resurrection. We believe that such salvation with its forgiveness of sins, its impartation of a new nature, and its hope of eternal life, is entirely apart from good works, baptism, church membership, or man’s effort, and is of pure grace. We believe that a true believer is eternally secure, and cannot lose his salvation. But that sin may interrupt the joy of his fellowship with God and provoke the loving discipline of his Heavenly Father. We believe that all who receive Christ as their Savior become joint heirs with Christ; at death their spirits depart to be with Him in conscious blessedness; and at the rapture their bodies will be raised to the likeness of the glorified body of Christ and dwell forever in His divine presence.
We believe that the goal of every Christian is to grow in spiritual maturity through obedience to the Word of God and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. We believe that the Holy Spirit is a person and is God, possessing all His divine attributes. He indwells all believers, baptizes and seals all believers at the moment of their salvation, and fills them in response to confession of sin.