Meet Our Senior Pastor, Dr. Josh Franklin
Pastor Josh has served as Senior Pastor of Mount Vernon since 2018 and has been in local church ministry since 2002. Josh holds two doctorates (PhD, DMin) and two masters (ThM, MDiv) from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, NC and Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, MO. Josh has written several books including: Starting Strong, Pathway to Power, Believer’s Baptism, Don’t Drink Responsibly, and The Vanishing of the Gospel (coauthor). He was also honored with the Warren-Poe Award for Rural Church Ministry “for demonstrating excellence in, or potential and promise for, effective pastoral ministry in a rural Southern Baptist Church” in 2010. Josh and his wife, Lydia, have 3 sons: Josiah, Caleb, and Levi.
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