2nd Annual Southern Gospel Music Cruise
Jan. 20th, 2013

Our Preachers

Charlie Bell

West Division Street Baptist Church, Springfield, MO

Pastor Bell was born and raised in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He was saved in 1979 at the age of 15 under the ministry of Pastor Waudell Maple and the Temple Baptist Church of Las Cruces.

Pastor Bell felt God’s call to full-time ministry at Singing Hills Youth Camp in New Mexico in 1981. He attended Baptist Bible College in Springfield Missouri and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth Texas where he received his bachelors and masters degrees respectively.

Pastor Bell and his family were BBFI missionaries to the country of Argentina from 1991 – 2000.

He served as a professor in the missions department of Baptist Bible College from the Fall of 2002 through the Fall of 2006.

Pastor Bell became the pastor of West Division Street Baptist Church on January 1st of 2007.

 

Linzy Slayden

Friendship Baptist Church, Owasso, OK

Pastor Linzy Slayden, Jr. was called to pastor Friendship Baptist Church the third week of July in 1992. His experiences as a youth director, music director and associate pastor helped to prepare him to pastor this rapidly growing church. Pastor Slayden was born in Moline, IL and raised in the Quad-Cities area until moving to the small farming community of Cambridge in his junior high years. It was here that he graduated from High School, and met and married his high school sweetheart, Carla. Pastor Slayden is also the current President of the Baptist Bible Fellowship, International.

 

Jeff Hardy

First Baptist Church, Kimberling City, MO

Jeff has been married 27 years to his wife Kim.  They have two boys Joshua 24 & Jacob 21.  Jeff has pastored churches in TN, MS , and now MO.  He is a graduate of Liberty Theological seminary.  He says he loves the outdoors and is an avid fisherman and hunter.

Bruce Haynes

Senior Pastor, New Life Temple, Hollister, MO

 

Vocalist, bass guitar, Presleys' Country Jubilee
 Branson, Missouri

 

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Springfield, MO 65810
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