Russell Stigall is senior pastor. He came to Houston from New Jamestown Road Baptist Church in the St. Louis area. A graduate of University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, he later finished his seminary education at Midwestern Baptist Seminary, receiving his master of divinity degree in 1987. Since then, he was a church planter/missionary with the North American Mission Board and pastored Baptist churches in Kansas, Colorado and Missouri. Stigall’s wife, Susan, is a certified public accountant. The have two adult children, Joshua and Tricia.