{"id":32,"date":"2025-03-24T15:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T15:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firstbaptistportsalerno.org\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2025-03-24T15:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T15:27:08","slug":"about-our-pastor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/firstbaptistportsalerno.org\/?page_id=32","title":{"rendered":"About our Pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Pastor William Davenport<\/strong><br>Pastor Willie has been the Pastor of First Baptist Church of Port Salerno, since January 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pastor Willie was saved at age 7 at camp Chautauqua in Miamisburg, OH. He was raised serving in churches as a pastor\u2019s son in Kalamazoo, MI and Dayton, OH<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He and his wife Robyn, were married in February of 2000. They have 4 children; two daughters in seminary in TX, a daughter here in FL pursuing a nursing degree, and a wonderful teenage son at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2003, while serving as a youth pastor in Noblesville IN, Pastor Willie surrendered to the ministry. In 2006 He was Ordained to the ministry by Bethel Missionary Baptist Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pastor Willie became a missionary church planter, establishing a work in Edinburgh IN, where he pastored from 2006 to 2016. He then entered into a full time evangelism ministry of encouraging churches, pastors, and their families for three years until God called him to Stuart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pastor Willie grew up in Christian education, has been involved in seminary level studies since he was a young man, and is a graduate of Faith Bible Institute. Primarily he is a student of the Word of God<br>and is honored to serve as pastor at First Baptist Church of Port<br>Salerno.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor William DavenportPastor Willie has been the Pastor of First Baptist Church of Port Salerno, since January 2020. Pastor Willie was saved at age 7 at camp Chautauqua&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/firstbaptistportsalerno.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/firstbaptistportsalerno.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/firstbaptistportsalerno.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/firstbaptistportsalerno.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/firstbaptistportsalerno.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/firstbaptistportsalerno.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"http:\/\/firstbaptistportsalerno.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/firstbaptistportsalerno.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}